Originally posted by The Cyfre
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but none of them really want to live in that world because it puts the servant back in public servant!
You nailed it!
I think our political machinery (the dems and repubs) have become marginalized by their dependence on media supported 'super stardom'.
They
believe themselves to be better than the rest of the citizenry.
Ron Paul's arguments always return to the mandate the American people impose upon their servants.... they don't want the American people to remember
that they are OUR employees and not our leaders.
They are OUR representatives, not guardians or caretakers.
Their power comes from the American people, NOT their party.
They have the finest health care in the world, for free. Why is that? They have benefits extended to them for the remainder of their lives. Why is
that?
Why do we allow them to TELL us that they are heroes and geniuses?
The key is service. They don't provide it, they actually have been witnessed working against us. Yet we continue to allow them the prerogative of
ignoring us..., based on the premise that they (of all people) "know better."
In this matter, and many others, it is the loss of the free press that destroyed our political system. The corporatists got into the halls of power
and allowed the press to be usurped and utterly dominated; we lost our popular education model, and now our kids don't even know what the 10th
ammendment is, or why 'habeus corpus' was so important that thousands gave their lives to restore it.
Hell, most of them can't even tell you what the words on the dollar bill mean, or what is the difference between cash and credit; and why our money
is called 'Federal Reserve Notes." Even our illustrious President calls for us to 'get credit flowing' ... what an oxymoron! Credit is deficit,
cash flows, NOT credit. But what we are to accept and understand is being drilled into us - not because it's right, not because it's correct, just
because we are told to accept it.
Soon they will change history, and then our grandkids will be even more ignorant.
[edit on 15-5-2009 by Maxmars]