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What Both Parties in DC Refuse to Discuss

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 1 March 2006
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Wars and conflicts Parties Health USA

The Poet Ezra Pound once said The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.

This can be said of Every Issue in American Politics. The leaders put forth two acceptable ideas, and the tv propaganda dutifully repeats the fake debate 24/7 - all the while omitting the true alternative.

Iraq
Acceptable choices: Stay the course, or Redeploy
True Alternative: Bring Home the Troops

Health Care
Fake debate is about how many Americans have insurance
The true alternative is No Insurance period
Everyone is paying higher premiums while an insurance CEO takes $125 million salary - it’s greedy rat-bastards like this that are the scourge of America.

The true alternative is returning to a not-for-profit Health Care system.

In the current system, the more Americans that have cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc, the more money the corporations make- that’s a bad equation- period.

Campaign-Finance Reform
Phony Politicians debate about soft-money vs hard-money limits
True Alternative: Free Air Time for all candidates on TV/Radio stations that use OUR Public Airwaves

The Drug War
No Choice- major politicians of both parties agree we must continue the drug war
True Alternative: End this War on the People
Bush’s ’youthful indiscretions’ got him zero jail time. Yet poor teenagers can get several years in prison for the same or lesser crimes. This double standard is disgusting. America became the worlds leading jailer under Clinton and Gore. Prisons for Profit also came into existence on their watch. Another bad equation- the more prisoners we have, the more money Wall St. makes.

Do you remember the vote on Prisons for Profit? There wasn’t one. We The People never approved of this disgusting practice. Why do we pay $30,000/yr to lock up American Citizens, when their biggest crime is being poor. $6 x 40hr/wk x 52 weeks = $12,500/yr. Millions have no job, and tens of millions more make close to min. wage- yet we’ll pay corporations more than twice that to lock them away.

and on and on...

What America needs is people with common sense, people that recognize it’s time to abandon the norm, because that’s how we got into this mess.

America needs people like Howard Zinn, Mark Crispin Miller, and YOU to run for Congress.

ps- How could I forget the Big Lie that most of America supports Bush, that’s why they ’elected’ him in 2004. And the Big Lie that it takes millions of dollars to run for Congress. That’s a Lie. 50% of Americans don’t bother to vote because they’re not given a true choice. If We ran for congress, and gave the People a true choice, we could win- even without big $$ donors.

http://benfrank.net/patriots/what_b...

Forum posts

  • Geez, Kerry looks like hell in this photo; what’s the matter with his face? And Bush looks like he is asking, "Was that you who sat on the whoppie cushion?"

    Oh, well... That was just an aside...

    To: Ben Frank... How long have you lived in America?

    • why do you guys censor so much????

    • hey ben , have a hair brained idea that you may enjoy , bel here wouldnt allow it but it really is a great idea, i will tell you on your site

    • why not run a contest for the 100 most extreme stories of where bush policies of secrecy have resulted in tragedy for the victims, these 100 could run with 335 other well qualified candidates in a consolidated grass roots party , if a door to door campaign getting notarized signatures that agree with the consolidated 435 candidates this would leave little room for diebold or any other electronic voting companies could disenfranchise us again, if the stories turned out extreme enough , you could run it like american idol and let the voting public determine who they think are the most extremes,this would garner instant national media for reform and redressing the undressable government that has seized power and ignored popular opinion of basic american morals of its constituents and has therefore deligitmized its ownself

      this was most of it had other ideas in it ,but the gist here, feel free to go with it , if you like my odea

  • I’m sorry but I think you’re naive. That strategy will get you the vote of your spouse and next door neighbors. It’s been done, it doesn’t work.

    There aren’t two parties, we’re a one-party state — Republicans and Republican moles. Kerry was paid to lose (actually he won, but wouldn’t even defend his win).

    dontvoteitonlyvalidatesascam

    • im not naive and i aint advocating dems or repubs they are both scum.i am saying that national attention could be gained by a grass roots campaign that got the 100 most extreme cases of false imprisonment , people who were fired because of whistleblowing that is supposed to be protected by law. if the 100 cases were extreme enough it would gain national media exposure. there is nothing naive about this at all. and as for you ,its plain to see by everyone that you are nothing but a bush enabler.