 “America’s only native criminal class is Congress”
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This is from a consistently conservative polling outfit, Scott Rasmussen makes better than beer money from his appearances on Fox Snooze and diddling rightwing think tanks.
Heading into the final weeks of the congressional election season, 62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 19% disagree, with 19% more not sure.
This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress.
75% of voters in the political Mainstream say if something is not going well, Congress can always make it worse.
Rasmussen differentiates between folks who are actively political – and ordinary voters who say they’re going to vote.
Other recent results have found that 60% believe most members of Congress don’t care what their constituents think. Also, voters are evenly divided as to whether a group randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress. Overall, just 16% say that Congress is doing a good or an excellent job.
#15, #17, Why is it you and I are the only ones who see this fact?
Eideard is a toad.
How to get “honest” politicians:
1. Start by rounding up all the incumbents as well as anyone who has held elected office in the last 4 years. Then kill them.
2. Announce new elections. After the candidates have been selected, round them up and kill them.
3. Repeat step 2.
Privatising DMV could work just like the Postal Service: charge more than 10 times the governmental monopoly price, create a work force of minimum wage slaves while pocketing huge executive profits while removing any service at all for the bottom 75% of the market that is very satisfied with the service they are getting today.
Just what the Pukes want. Actually a very good demonstration of what is wrong with capitalism.
#21–Faxon==why indeed? All fed lead paint as a baby?
#12
There is no difference between the two parties and has not been since the 1870s.
A plutocrat is a plutocrat. So long as the rich run the government, the middle and lower class have taxation without representation.
#13
I never said entrust the drafting of a new constitution to the present people in power. They cannot be trusted to do that. You have start with a new group of people. When we started the first one we didn’t ask the two houses in Britain for input. Neither should we now.
#14
Gov Christie of NJ is the solution, privatize. No doubt a privately run DMV would actually care about customer service, ending those 4hr waits
Yeah that great private run prison that let those murderers escape and then kill two more people while on the run was a shining example of privatisation.
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#12 “The Democrats began running the show in 2007, tanked the economy (via fannie and freddie) in 2008, and prevented the recession from ending ever since.”
You have a very selective reading of history. Bush II was still in ’07. Without a 60% in the senate the Dems would still not run the show, even if the president wasn’t planning on vetoing their bills. Focusing on Fannie and Freddie, which is only a part of the larger securitization debate, ignores the fact that those problem loan resets were on mortgages written 3-5 years earlier.
Blaming the credit revulsion on the Dems is similar to saying Afghanistan is Obama’s war. It ignores history that we just lived through. I can understand rewriting history for future people, but we were actually there to witness it. That nobody called you out on this yet is troubling.
All they think about is getting ‘reelected’ and they will say anything to do that.
Now what they actually do is another matter.
We shall see if it works again this year.
Sooo… Let’s all do the logical thing and elect more members of the political party that put us squarely in this mess in the first place?
16% think Congress is doing a good job? WTF is wrong with them? I can’t believe the number is that high.
congress should be like jury duty. You serve your four years, you get NO pay for life like they’ve given themselves now, you use the SAME healthcare everyone else is forced to use and you return to your regular life afterward, living with the consequences of what you did. Allow no meetings whatsoever with special interests, no gifts, no trips, etc.
Problem solved
11,
very good..
12,
you are a fool..This started at the point we RAISED wages for gov. jobs..Look back to the 70′s.. Giving a JOB that no one REALLY wants, and pays little, SHOWS when you are corrupt. You START OWNING/BUYING STUFF..NOW we have EXPENSIVE salaries and NO TRANSPARENCY and cant TELL who is making How much..
14,
This is easier..
IF the corps dont hire people…the STATE DOES and raises TAX on the corps to do business.
“Find them a Job, or WE WILL, and you still pay for it.”
16,
CORRECT, ding ding ding..
Those USED to be out of pocket to our reps…NOW WE PAY THEM.
18,
I like this question..we sent the money to the banks, and WHAT mortgages were paid? NONE..it went to wages.
#22
rather give them basic k-6 tests.. Then ask COMMON everyday tests..Whats the price of bread/milk/ice cream…most couldnt pass the 5th grade.
#23,
Almost…but RUN the GOV. like the CORPS run there business…top 1% get GREAT wages, and no one ELSE DOES. MIn wage for EVERYONE..
#28,
NOPE…QUIT THE UNION..scare them…badly.
#30,
NOT enough..very good, but not enough.
Part of the problem are the ones that WERENT elected. those incharge of major sections of the gov.
Veterans affairs.
Pentagon.
FDA
CIA
FBI
…
…
What would be nice for elected officials is a REGIONAL-NATIONAL selection..NOT 2 groups deciding FOR US, among those we never heard of.
5 groups, 10 states EACH. select a runner.
5 running people..
OLD time DEBATE…the ones that can LAST DAYS..
AND..
A vote of no confidence.
If enough persons in the USA VOTE no confidence, a NEW election for ALL SEATS.
Another button..
yes/NO/None of the above
requirement..
50% of the USA MUST VOTE, or no election. ALL are fired/quit.
1 Electorate vote PER STATE. this balances the farm states with Major cities. It also forces CORPS/people/dems and repubs to spread out. 16 states CANT RUN THIS NATION, and give NOTHING to the other 34.
ANd the BIG ONE..
no min wage..
MAX WAGE.
no one gets paid MORE, unless no-one wants the job or its dangerous.
Clearly, the political system we now have needs some adjustment.
Didn’t Darwin say we have to ‘evolve’ or perish?
I ‘vote’ for evolve..
Bobbo, that is not a good analysis of the postal service. The monopoly part in certain services makes it impossible to know what the privatized price would be. Plus the postal service is subsidized, which in some ways leads to lower prices, while the political interference leads to higher costs borne by having too many post offices.
In the parts that are more competitive, like packages, you do not see a 10-1 price differential. On top of that UPS and FedEx are a more reliable service.
Mike==fair and sensible counter. In the end, I believe the net/net benefit with the waste of government run postal service is far better than the net/net benefit with the profit skimming of for-profit run postal service.
For example: what is wrong with “too many post offices?” More locations = better service/selection. If that results in too many people being employed isn’t that “good” for society??? How can more people/locations providing a service be a bad thing? All comes down to “price” and price is the tax paid/fee paids/quality of society we live in.
No. I think the postal service is a most excellent example of the difference between government and for-profit services. NetFlix uses the USPO because it is reliable and cheaper than for profit.
Same is true for many/most other “basic” services that society needs/benefits from. I doubt you have any info regarding lost package rate for USPO or Fed-Ex other than their advertising???
Competition among providers makes “sense” mostly only for those items/services that the public doesn’t really need. Once you “need” a service, the free market required assumptions don’t apply.
Face it Mike–gov and free market each have their roles==neither is better at everything. Sorry not to get lock step stupid with you on this one.
Bobbo. Better than being fed the crap you libs suck up.
Faxon/Faxoff==4 hours to come up with that? Ha, ha. So, you would rather eat lead paint than organically grown free range baby carrots?
Well, “ok.” but the results are pretty clear for all to see.
Whadda retard.
IMNSHO, the reason that we have so many ineffective politicians is that many people vote for a candidate who says that the government can do no good. When said candidate gets into office (s)he proves this.
Perhaps if we voted for people who said that the government can do good, provided good people are elected. Perhaps if we were to elect these types of people, they might prove their point, and we might get a better Congress.
Easily solved. TERM LIMITS
Congress is nothing more then an exclusive thieves club. The longer they serve, the more they steal.
You won’t get elected for anything unless you can get the independents to vote for you. Both parties have made selling out the voters into a way of life.
The party that’s in needs kicked out but the ones that need kicked out worst are the party leaders and most of them are in safe districts.
What we need is the option of voting each year for one member of Congress to leave office for ten years. The top vote getter retires.