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Citizens United... vs. the wishes of the people. What a crock that decision was - Inc. trumps heartbeat! Especially love this stanza, Ron:

They keep us like a rat or gerbil
Running around upon their wheels
Jumping over rich man’s hurdles
Kept at bay beneath their heels

Maybe this is why nobody has the time or strength to cry out?

Keep on tellin' it like it is, my friend. Cheers, Mary Ann

Re: Stolen Democracy (Score: 1 ) by rondo on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 (18:27:24)

Americans are passified by sports and soaps and low gas prices and unaware as to the gradual consequence of these rulings insuring an Oligarchy government...sure it seems logical that those with most money would make the best rules as a form of smartest and brightest kind of thing but the corruption of money and power is all consuming and rights and enviroments are squandered in its wake that is why our forefathers established a democratic republic with a socialistic oversight...thanks MA for your comments and poems that influence thought and conscience...peace


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One of the beautiful things about GP is that some of the poems one reads stimulates a curiosity that needs to be satisfied. I was extremely interested in the message in this write Ron and did some research. I read a profile on Robert Reich whose thoughts were very similar [b]“A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.”[b]. - Robert Reich. Have you read any of his books Ron? ~ Phoebe~

Re: Stolen Democracy (Score: 1 ) by rondo on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 (18:36:06)

greeds grip tightens world wide and much of the best that humanity has to offer is squeazed out as slag and refuse these men and women are supposed to be our highest moral code but a child knows when their attention is being slighted and they are being ignored their shame is great and this tyranny will not stand....I hope your political system is not so easily corrupted...thanks phoebester...xoxoxo


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G'day Ronald...
The bottom line is the same the political world over Ronald;
Laws are made to protect the rich, and jails are built for the
impoverished. There needs to be awareness though; revolutions are not something of long ago history. The masses are still out there.
Thanks mate
Lindsay

Re: Stolen Democracy (Score: 1 ) by rondo on Saturday, July 14, 2012 (13:30:19)

like a slaughter house the space gets smaller and tighter until we are singled out and isolated and cannot forward or backward then all the sudden there is a slight pressure on the back of the head and...............................................


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Some times I feel just like you put it; have we become that lame and passive? You cannot get a right winger to say anything on site anymore and it is not because they are passive it is because they are a bunch of dirty sons of bitches. That may be my dirty south coming out in me. Mitt being bank rolled by these super packs; I sure hope that what they are saying does not become the truth that money chooses the president.

I hope the American people will not be blinded by their bankrolls.

BWP... James... Sorry you made me hot.

Re: Stolen Democracy (Score: 1 ) by rondo on Saturday, July 14, 2012 (13:34:00)

as soon as I get feeling there is no hope for our ignorant species somthing happens that proves I'm an idiot who worries too much....thanks brothers for your comments...peace


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Re: Stolen Democracy (Score: 1 ) by BrokenWordsPoet on Saturday, July 14, 2012 (15:56:42)

Maybe their bank rolls should open some eyes; the average worker works as hard as he can and barely brings home five hundred dollars a week being taken by the IRS for one third of his pay and just because this man is bring in hundreds of thousands he does not pay the same percentage of his earnings. They donate millions of dollars to prop up a good for nothing flip flopper with the Grand Old Party Republicans. Are their earning so much that their donations are far lower than the taxes they would have to pay or is there another agenda in play?

How can any of us feel at peace with the wacky nature of our congress and the supreme courts; they have highjacked every damn one of us and some damn idiots are too blind to see it.

BWP...


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