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Just Who Runs This Country?

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Written by Jamie Sanderson   
Sunday, 08 July 2012 14:55

Many of you may be thinking just who the hell runs this country these days. The people or corporations?

It's also a sad day for American voters when Congress quakes at the notion of the National Rifle Association scoring a vote rather than having to answer to the people who put them in office ... and who come back home asking for votes to send them back.

In South Carolina, Governor Nikki Haley scoffs at the idea of "constituent-driven" funding for government programs.

Really... who the hell runs this country?

We are fed up with the corporate takeover of our government. You work for me, not the corporations. You ask me for your vote, not the corporations. It's time you get back to basics and do the job we, the people, sent you to do. We demand action, not stalemates.

Sign this petition and tell all elected lawmakers to get their priorities straight.

http://signon.org/sign/just-who-runs-this-country

 

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+7 # Kwelinyingi 2012-07-09 14:51
When Corporations are recognized by the Supreme Court as people, without as much as a word from legislators, when banks are immune from justice, ideed are rewarded by taxpayer bailouts for theft then we are moving ever farther from the idea of a government of, by and for the people. Recent developments have forced a redefinition of American democracy: 99.9% (the people) voting in, once every 3 to 4 years, the 0.1% (the reps) who do the bidding of the 0.01% (the corporations) who then turn around to scr*w the 99.9% who cheerfully go back to the voting booths to vote against their own interests by voting in the same reps.
 
 
+1 # brux 2012-07-19 10:43
True, except I really do not think anyone is cheerful about it! ;-)
 
 
+5 # lark3650 2012-07-11 04:27
American writer Elmer Davis said it best:

"This Republic was not established by cowards and it will not be preserved by cowards."

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."

"This will remain 'the land of the free' only as long as it is the 'home of the brave'."
 

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