Question:
Whats wrong with the U.S government?
2006-07-15 14:19:01 UTC
Whats wrong with the U.S government?
21 answers:
2006-07-15 14:22:07 UTC
I don't know. It's the best that money can buy.
Chey
2006-07-15 14:35:36 UTC
Ah i am an expeirenced political debater, and this is the perfect question, the problems that face us in our us government is the fact that a regular joe can't run 4 pres. because it way to freakin expensive, therefore we just get no good rich up-tights that think that the presidency is a prestegous thing and dont know the poor side of the country, and the problems that face us who r not loaded with money, what i am trying to say is that they lack the expireince to know problems, another problem with our government is that the heads of government are so caught up in there power that they dont give a damn what happens to us they are concerned about tax payers, not people, and to the government is dirty, they will have anybody knocked off to prevent their mistakes from gettin out, political parties and all that stuff r to take our attention off what they r doing behind our backs, hell their even erasing history from our archives so that future generations wont see what dumb you know whats they r, look i am for a clean government, and i am planning on runnin for political office in the future so remember this answer and keep it it could be worth lots, dont be scared to ask more my email is cheyb_92 at yahoo, so ask all u want, sicerely a very concerned citizen
Coach D.
2006-07-15 14:31:02 UTC
I really don' t know what is wrong. My mail arrived today delivered by the US Post Office. The Social Security will send my aged mother her check the first of each month. Thousands of planes are in the air and are not crashing. Roads and bridges are being built or repaired. Criminals are being caught and jailed. Our borders are secure - we have not been attacked in almost five years. Drug dealers are being arrested. Veterans are receiving care in Government Hospitals. You must be living in a cave - there is a whole world out there - come see for yourself.
pixles
2006-07-29 10:29:02 UTC
The fact that a lot of them speak "VERY BROKEN" English. Did you ever try calling any government agency. All they have to do is come in from another country; take a simple test, get an extra 20 points through affirmative action, say they speak English, (but it really means: Do they understand it:) which means they have to understand us, but we do not have to understand them. This of course leads to a lot of misinterpertations and mistakes, which I say makes our so called "GOVERNMENT"

incompetent. Believe me, you wouldn't believe

what goes on in our government. If anybody did know, WE WOULD NOT PAY AT LEAST 50% OF OUR TAXES, because we are paying incompetent people their wages, pensions etc.
Brooke
2006-07-15 14:32:55 UTC
We sit at our computers and ask and answer questions. Where is the action? Start a revolution already!! Cheney will be here Monday, I'm off to protest!



Less talk, more action!!! The majority of Americans aren't doing anything. Check out the local political groups near you, it's refreshing to get involved. There is nothing more American than making your voice heard collectively with your peers! Now, off you go!
corvis_9
2006-07-15 14:29:15 UTC
Lack of term limits for legislative branch.



No constitutional grantee of a right to an education. It should have been pushed through with universal suffrage (voting rights). That has opened the doors to the kind of overt populist demagoguery that will ultimately destroy the reality of American liberty in favor of a creeping nationalistic fascism, if the current trends continue.
VertigoU2
2006-07-15 16:41:29 UTC
Special interest groups and extreme groups from both sides have infiltrated all branches of government. From the lobbyists that control Congress, to the Religous fanatics that want to control our judicial nominations over Roe vs. Wade, to the most secretive and corrupt administration in our executive branch's history, all three branches have been corrupted.
2006-07-15 14:25:26 UTC
The people who are in charge of it (that means you and me) are too busy with our petty little selfish lives in order to give the government the attention it requires in order for it to run as was originally argued.
x
2006-07-15 14:26:57 UTC
Besides crooked and drunk Politicians???



Those taking bribes, killing and leaving women under bridges, dealing in drugs, cheating on thier wives and taxes....what else is new?



They have been that way for years now, and you are not going to change them, because they LIKE IT!!



I wish you well..



Jesse
kniggs
2006-07-15 14:23:51 UTC
The lobbiest, the oil companies, the drug companies,and the defense contractors actually run our government, or haven't you noticed.
amartouk
2006-07-15 14:33:32 UTC
Not near enough space to make the list. You should maybe narrow your question down a bit.
CottonPatch
2006-07-26 17:11:45 UTC
Liberals in Congress.
Taina M
2006-07-15 14:23:30 UTC
A lot of things. Especially our president & vice president. They know NOTHING unless it involves money.
aka DarthDad
2006-07-28 19:29:32 UTC
Love it or hate it, there is not a better system.



Be glad it is not more messed up than it is!



Stop expecting so much.



Change it when you get elected.
Am
2006-07-15 14:26:18 UTC
Alot of things...

too many things wrong to type them all up for you LOL

;-)
Bearable
2006-07-15 15:38:12 UTC
the general apathy of the american people and lack of education...can civil war be far behind
ideogenetic
2006-07-15 15:08:17 UTC
Two-party Republican corporatocracy.
Boredstiff
2006-07-15 14:25:35 UTC
People like yourself.
a_poor_misguided_soul
2006-07-15 14:22:57 UTC
Stupid people are allowed to vote.
Andi Rolf
2006-07-15 14:22:11 UTC
Bush is running it?
2006-07-15 14:49:25 UTC
ALL our politicians are flim flam men, they use hook and crook methods to hide, decieve, and hoodwink us!



Film Flam Men:



They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!



They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!



They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!



They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!



They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, a news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!



They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!



So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!

They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!



The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.



It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement and abysmally poor judgment! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!



America could conquer the world. Not with warring, but with such overwhelming wealth that the whole world would lick our boots to get our help for themselves. I can make a provable, tangible, graph able outline for doing this.



First someone like me would have to the President. I say that because I'm the kind of man that can't be knuckled under, I don't take you can't do that and just quit, and no matter how hard the job is I never stop short.



I’m a working class man, I came up doing body work, so I know how to fix the tangled mess others have made.



As President, this being THE most powerful position in the world, I would go completely around the Senate and the House. I would use the Executive Order and write the checks to get what needs to be done, done ASAP! The treasury is in the executive branch and Lincoln wrote checks to get things done, so I would do the same.



By Executive Order, I would start with fixing the governments money problems and getting the citizens tax problems solved. Then I would stop the foreign companies that cheat the US out their share of taxes, and make a loophole free way to collect every penny they owe.



Next would come the illegals, I'd get them all registered, employed, and put them on the tax roles not us. We need the illegals paying taxes because there's just not enough Gen Xer's to pay the SS for the Boomers and Gen Xer's.



I'd make millions of high wage jobs with renewable power plant construction jobs and renewable power would be a priority. I'd build so much clean power we would have power in overabundance, and could supply the whole world with clean US made power. 1/3 of the money from the foreign power bills would be put into a fund and every head of household would get a paycheck and NO tax bill!



To continue doing this would make a book so I'm going to outline what’s to be:



1st90 days by ExOrder

Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska

End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs

End tax paper work for the citizens, not business

End all welfare programs, save the money

Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done

Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich

End lobbyists, take the money out of politics

Make graft illegal, have mandatory jail time

Close the DOE, save the money

Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money

Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military

Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money

Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container

Register the illegals, put them to work and on the tax roles not us

Private SS accounts, makes us millionaires, no gov access to money

After90 days by ExOrder

Build renewable power, make millions of high wage jobs

Build a fund from foreign power bills like Alaska uses to PAY us

End Nuclear power

Build electric powered roads, make more millions of high wage jobs

Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks

End our dependence on foreign oil

Clean the polluted water with clean electric power

Return America to 50% of world’s economy





The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.



In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.



Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.



Alaska uses Earth Rights to pay about $1000 p/yr and not tax their residents. With all 50 states my fed gov could pay $50,000 p/yr, NO TAXES, and fund the gov!



The foreign tariff money, the illegals taxes, and earthrights money pays all the gov expenses, funds the military better than now, and pays down the national debt with NO deficit.



The Renewable power fund would pay what I call a National Income Program, and when the fund matures in about 30 years, would pay about another $50,000 p/yr.



So $50,000 p/yr from the Earth Rights and NO taxes. Millions of high wage power plant construction jobs, we would need to build 5000 power plants just to start, and build for many years to come.



Then make millions more high wage jobs to build new electric powered roads to use the clean power. Makes thousands of jobs to build electric cars and trucks that use power from the new electric powered roads.



Foreign oil dependence would end! The Arabs could drink their oil, we don’t need it any more. The oil money that funds the terrorists would dry up, and terrorism would strangle, then die. Domestic oil production would supply all our needs.



Then comes the $50,000 p/yr from the National Income Program, with the Earth Rights money my gov could then pay every household $100,000p/yr, all with no taxes.



Then the private SS accounts would have about a $1,000,000 in them for your retirement. The rich make fortunes by building money in funds just this same way, so what works for the rich, will work for the nation.



This builds America to be 300,000,000 millionaires. The money would be passed to your Aires and NO TAXES. Each new generation would be richer than their forebears. Soon newborns would be born millionaires, and the system would continue to multiply their wealth for each next generation.



America would be so wealthy that soon we would be the envy of the world, and people from around the world would lick our boots for us to help them get where we would be. America rules the world with wealth, not war.



With stable power comes jobs, with jobs comes prosperity. Prosperity makes life comfortable, with comfort comes contentment. Contentment would bring peace, and war would be a thing of the past. If someone for some strange reason wanted start a war we could just stop beaming them power.



I take it you know electric power can be beamed on a microwave inside a laser beam to a satellite and put anywhere it's needed on the earth! So cut the beam and no power. It's hard to ,fight a war with no lights or power. America controls the power!



The renewable power is fuel-less so it's cheap clean power! It’s without the inflation of fuel costs, so the price would remain stable.



I grew up loving to watch Super Man as a kid, he made a lasting impression on me. I’ve lived my life by his motto “ Truth, Justice, and the American Way!”, it still rings in my ears today as it did when I was a child. I want to bring this to America’s government, and drive out the flim flam men! I want America to BE the shining example all the world wishes to emulate.



Would you vote for me to be the President?


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