Brass Level Housing
by Robert S Strength
Our leaders are corrupt assholes. That we all know. Even the people who believe in the government and it's function will admit that the top tier is corrupt and always will be. The common phrase is, "There's just too much money involved."
Well, I'm calling bullshit. We Americans have dropped the ball. This isn't a Democrat or a Republican issue. It's both. Our entire populace has allowed our politicians to become stage show attractions. They spout words like "Hope" and "Morality". Those are just power words, and we all know it. Anyone old enough to vote knows that our nation is ruled by the methods that sell us Taco Bell. We vote for nice flashy colors and good suits, rather than good thinking and proven intentions. Vague promises and lies are the fare of the debate forum that we currently use to select our leaders, given to us with the same tongue-in-cheek honesty of reality T.V.
I have to ask, where are the great men? Where are the Washingtons and the Lincolns? Where are the Caesars and the Oda Nobunagas? I am not naming these people the venerate them, but to ask; Can our great and powerful nation not produce better men than Reagan, Clinton, Bush, or Obama? Can we not find, among our thousands of educated and brilliant thinkers a single person that we would rather represent us than the washed up and bought out bullshitters that have led us for the past hundred years? List of U.S. Presidents and their previous careers.
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I have no delusions that the people of America will start sitting down responsibly and researching the logic and history of each person they might cast a vote for. We can change the system to work with modern America, however. And if we do not change it, we cannot expect more from it.
The foremost issue preventing the proper function of our government is we have no ability to keep accountability of our politicians. There is no way for the people to remove a president of congress from power except Revolt. An impeachment is not sufficient. The process does not fulfill the function of the people's choosing to remove a politician. A hand cannot wash itself. The congress cannot properly expel the corruption, because that is the very section of the government that is corrupted.
Because we cannot respond to the unwanted action of our politicians, we have thus far used the profit motive as the force that keeps American politics in line. In order to keep your office you must maintain the vote. To win the vote you play the game of politics. The politician who plays the game the best is rewarded the most, and out of that game we hope to gain proper governance. We have built our political system on the foundations of conflicted interest, between personal gain for a few politicians and the betterment of the entire nation. The profit motive has failed to produce politicians who will faithfully carry out their office. How do we remove that motivation from our policy makers? We remove the the motivation completely. We remove the money in order to remove the motivation. It is the only way.
To remove the money, we first remove campaign funding entirely, and open a publicly run debate and forum that enables the people to view and select candidates from all political parties, with no one party or group having the advantage of mass advertising and campaigning. This provides two powerful advantages.
One, the politicians would receive equal coverage and representation. A vastly rich or well backed candidate would no longer have an advantage, at least within the confines of the debate system.
Two, without the campaign funds to attract the rich and corrupt to power, the system could produce people with the intention to govern rather than make money.
The current politicians are not welcome at the new forums. They will finish their terms with heavy oversight and leave office no worse than it found them, for better or worse.
In order to remove the rest of the money from the system, and ensure that no politician could be bribed or rewarded beyond his office, afterwards the upper levels of our government would not be allowed to possess money; Ever again, for the entirety of their lives. We instead would pay to build homes and a neighborhood where they could live, complete with a Mall and system for purchasing goods with a credit only system. Food and vehicles would be provided, as well as amenities befitting such high stature within our society. Which honestly, honest governors of state deserve. College would be paid for their children, and a severance would be paid to the family upon death.
I suggest this course of action for the people of the nation. I know that some will be hurt by the changes. Some people will lose their well paying positions that they have fought hard to obtain, and many well intentioned political figures would be expelled from office unfairly. This is not meant as an attack on any person or group. There should be no arrests made, because under our current system the men and women who run our government are operating as intended. We expect them to be selling our votes out the backdoor for personal profit, and they do it belligerently. We cannot, in good conscious, act as if they are truly criminals. They found the system of government in the state that it is, and they played the game as the rules were written. No one politician can be expected to reroute the entire method of promotion and favor that is the accepted system.
The only way that a corrupted system of any kind, economic, political, biological, or mechanical, may operate as intended is if the corrupt elements are removed and not allowed to return. Greed is the driving force behind corruption; greed for money, power, or anything that drives a person. Money is the means by which greed is achieved. The paper is meaningless. It is the idea of the fulfillment of our wants that money represents that drives our politicians, like all people. Our leaders must be brought above this consideration if we want to have the nation run by people who's motivation are true to the office they occupy. I believe we should give the elite in our nation a wealthy lifestyle, with french wine and enough resources to continue to better themselves. I do not believe that our leaders need to be driven men, who have won a race comprised of driven men. The ranking politicians among our current leaders are the best players of the game. They are the most cunning, and the men who have won the most. The game of politics is a game of people, playing our desires against their own. When a bill comes to the floor, and the votes are cast, there is an element of corruption pulling the vote out of the people's favor. To eliminate that factor, we must eliminate the desire that causes it, and the only way to do that completely is to take the money from our leaders. Money is a fine resource for the industries and economies of the world, but it is the very root of the problem within our government.
In order to make this a clean sweep, all of the currently affected members of our government would have to be removed and not allowed to return to office. The specifics are, of course, a matter that would be highly debated and refined. However, I believe that the system should be refined after the transition of politicians that would be required, or we run the risk of having corruption spread.
The effort to govern our nation should be in the hands of people who's motivations are for the progress of our nation and our people. The person that our nation chooses to be our leader should be a person of impeccable character, possess a wisdom that is beyond the scope of the feral politicians, and desire above all else the progress of humanity. Until this requirement is met, there is little or no cause to discuss any other matter.
To make a difference, draw your sword.
Robert S Strength
Further reading on the subject of corruption:
To remove the money, we first remove campaign funding entirely, and open a publicly run debate and forum that enables the people to view and select candidates from all political parties, with no one party or group having the advantage of mass advertising and campaigning. This provides two powerful advantages. One, the politicians would receive equal coverage and representation. A vastly rich or well backed candidate would no longer have an advantage, at least within the confines of the debate system.
Two, without the campaign funds to attract the rich and corrupt to power, the system could produce people with the intention to govern rather than make money.
The current politicians are not welcome at the new forums. They will finish their terms with heavy oversight and leave office no worse than it found them, for better or worse.
In order to remove the rest of the money from the system, and ensure that no politician could be bribed or rewarded beyond his office, afterwards the upper levels of our government would not be allowed to possess money; Ever again, for the entirety of their lives. We instead would pay to build homes and a neighborhood where they could live, complete with a Mall and system for purchasing goods with a credit only system. Food and vehicles would be provided, as well as amenities befitting such high stature within our society. Which honestly, honest governors of state deserve. College would be paid for their children, and a severance would be paid to the family upon death.
I suggest this course of action for the people of the nation. I know that some will be hurt by the changes. Some people will lose their well paying positions that they have fought hard to obtain, and many well intentioned political figures would be expelled from office unfairly. This is not meant as an attack on any person or group. There should be no arrests made, because under our current system the men and women who run our government are operating as intended. We expect them to be selling our votes out the backdoor for personal profit, and they do it belligerently. We cannot, in good conscious, act as if they are truly criminals. They found the system of government in the state that it is, and they played the game as the rules were written. No one politician can be expected to reroute the entire method of promotion and favor that is the accepted system.
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| Biological corruption is known as cancer. |
In order to make this a clean sweep, all of the currently affected members of our government would have to be removed and not allowed to return to office. The specifics are, of course, a matter that would be highly debated and refined. However, I believe that the system should be refined after the transition of politicians that would be required, or we run the risk of having corruption spread.
The effort to govern our nation should be in the hands of people who's motivations are for the progress of our nation and our people. The person that our nation chooses to be our leader should be a person of impeccable character, possess a wisdom that is beyond the scope of the feral politicians, and desire above all else the progress of humanity. Until this requirement is met, there is little or no cause to discuss any other matter.
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| These are my kids,(at least 2 of 4) and they are why I want change in this nation. I want to leave my kids with a world that will make them proud of our generation. |
To make a difference, draw your sword.
Robert S Strength
Further reading on the subject of corruption:
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