Narrock wrote:brinstar wrote:cain's "plan" is designed to do what virtually every other politician's "plan" is designed to do, and that is to give kickbacks to the wealthy donors who fund their campaigns at everyone else's expense. if you somehow think this is not the case (and has been for a long time) then you are sorely mistaken or hoping to get in on the deal.
ModNote: Edited slightly for politeness.
I listened to what every candidate says. Bottom line is that most of them are just politicians and it's always a crap shoot as to what they actually do once they get elected, and we can only hope that they won't cave in to special interest groups who pad their pockets, ie failprezbarry. Do I believe that a Cain/Romney ticket would be America's savior? No, BUT so far, those two candidates will give me at least 70% of what America needs. The other candidates less than that, and any demorat will give us roughly 20% of what we need.
see, but they don't even bother making a show of holding out against special interest groups' influence anymore. cain's 999 plan is pretty obvious proof of that - why bother waiting until i get elected, might as well start pandering to big finance now and skip all the theatrics!
the problem is bigger than that, though. picture a two-person rowboat. a long time ago, the two-party system simply consisted of two groups who both wanted to improve our nation but whose ideas didn't always line up. out of good faith, they worked together to overcome those differences and actually govern the people - they made mistakes, yes, but they also had plenty of triumphs. moving forward was always the ideal, and even though the party in power might row harder, they still made some actual forward progress. fast forward to now, and what do you see? whichever party is not in power simply stops rowing - or in the case of the teabaggers, actually starts rowing in the opposite direction - and then blames the party in power for not getting anything done! wtf, what madness is this?
so for me, an admittedly liberal person who bases his political convictions upon compassion for fellow humans, a sense of justice tempered by dignity, and a deep appreciation for the planet we're all stuck on together, i am continually presented with two choices. i can pick a donkey who promises good things, actually does maybe a third of them, and then shits all over the people the rest of the time - or i can pick an elephant that makes no secret of its intent to shit all over the people. in all honesty, i've reached a point where neither option is good enough for me, and i am very angry about it.
which actually brings me to the #occupy movement. cain and cantor and bloomberg don't fucking get it at all (big surprise there
), and in order to pander to the idiots they've duped, are trying to wave it away as some sort of obama-engineered distraction sideshow. but if you look at what they're really upset about, it's actually all of the above. the late george carlin summed it up the best:yeah yeah, i know - LOL YUOTUEB - but the man speaks truth. "it's a big club, and you ain't in it." he said this shit in 2005, three whole years before the very practices and corruption he was railing against crashed our economy. and if the article i read the other day is anywhere close to the truth, expect it to happen again before the year is out. first greece, then the rest of the EU, then the wave will cross the pond and wipe us out again.
*laugh* (Not slamming you, man, just the fox wench. Not at all a fan of cigarettes either. Obviously therefore, I'm apparently not a real American either.... rofl) Oh, and is it just me, or at the end of the ad, is Herman Cain the spitting image of this famous internet meme: 
