I have to agree with Satchel on this one. You’re trying to say too much in one breath. Much of what you say is valid and needs to be heard by the American people. But you’re doing yourself, and the information that you’re trying to disseminate, a disservice by trying to lay out a book’s worth of information in just a few paragraphs. People don’t process information in that way.

You need to take your time, organize your information, and present it in a systematic and well documented way. If you’d do that, you’d probably have a best seller. I know I’d buy it, just based on what you’ve said here.

Our congressmen talk out of both sides of their mouths all the time…caucasion, african american, latino, jewish, female, male all the like.

Liberals, neocons, socialists, old school democrats all talk about “gun control” in the wake of Aurora shooting and Connecticut shooting – However, all them sign onto providing weapons and supplies knowingly to Salfists, Wahhabists, Al Qaeda etc when it comes to the energy agendya when they know those weapons will lead to Assad defending his country, which then leads to more bloodshed and ultimately blowback! Every pre-invasion it’s the same old crime syndicate leading the charge colored in Red and Blue – Lindsey Graham, Harry Reid, John McCain, Peter King, Charles Schumer, Rudy Guiliani. Both sides love war!

Liberals, neocons, solicialsts, old school dems signed off to Dodd-Frank bill – The DF Bill does provide some protections in regards to consumers etc., however it doesn’t deter financial institutuions from playing casino with customer funds. Credit default swaps, derivatives, fractional reserve banking, naked shorts are all still in play and are all widely used. But the one party system passed this toothless bill. MF Global was a prime example. Anyone seen Jon Corzine perp walk yet? I havent.

Civil Liberties – this is an easy one.

Taxation – this is painful to watch. Taxing couples who make >$250K/year for example. If you and your spouse do decently well, both college educated and you live in New York, Bay Area, Metro LA, Seattle, Maryland/Virginia/DC that’s waaaay to low. You’re middle class at best living off that. So in essence it’s social justice. Taxation should be purposeful. When we are constantly expanding the military, expanding private security overseas, expanding domestic spying facilities the size of the Vatican (in Utah) don’t talk to me about raising taxes. Then it’s an issue of priorities. We have democratic senate and president who are supposed to people oriented, but non of them are saying a thing about the outlandish wasteful spending happening right before their eyes….TSA, NSA facilities…hell TSA just unionized…you gotta be kidding me. The Repubs want to cut programs for the people (SS, Medicare and Welfare) rather than cut bloated govt intelligence/information/military complexes which is sickening. Look at the cities in California. I did state that Wal Street transactions go currently untaxed…right there you untaxed quatrillions in revenue available but the Wal Street tax law goes unused in New York City and federally as well.

Jobs and Healthcare are other areas as well, but I’ll keep it shorter this time.

So those are some examples. Rhetoric to appeal to voter constiutiencies when in fact the policies don’t benefit the American people is what we hear to often and those who don’t read suffer.

That was more like a rant. I would much rather see an article written by you with some focus and a point. Can we do that.

CAUTION – Please don’t assume criticism of Obama is due to racism or because he’s black….including Susan Rice Obama is smart and he was born part of the privileged system just like other well to do politicians. His mother Anne Dunham (intelligence community), grandfather Dunham (intelligence community, father Obama (Kenyan diplomat with US State Dept ties) and step father (military community in Indonesia) looks like that of the typical high level Beltway server. So we should critique him to make him serve us and force him to perform. When the criticism is always labeled racist, you then start to create blind supporters for our highest elected black officials.
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I think people are tired of the “one party system”. We don’t owe Obama anything. Our government owes us. We pay them. And before you assume anything, no Romney wasn’t the answer either. The people deserve an anti corrupt, ethical, transparent, anti-imperialistic gov’t. Obama isn’t giving us that just like Bush and Clinton hasn’t either.

You know it’s a game of deception played by the democrats and republicans. The truth is both sides love war and imperialism (including Obama but covertly through the blacks ops and CIA), corporate welfare (financial institutions & vulture gov’t contractors) and both sides love to oppress freedoms and liberties while giving the impression they’re making us safe. It started with Clinton’s domestic terrorism bill, Dubya’s Patriot Act and now Obama’s NDAA and his blazing through Libya and Syria. All three of these men are run by the same masters – the federal reserve and world central banks, the New World Order war machine (US and Brits, NATO, France) and the energy industry.

Our congressmen are (with the exception of a handful) are incompetent and traitors to the American people. How many of them voted blindly for NDAA, how many of them have said anything about the bloodshed by the Africom Agenda that’s going on right now (it’s just an energy and resource grab the US/NATO/IMF), how many of them know that raising taxes won’t pay even for one months worth of our debt, how many of them didn’t say a word about as answer to creating jobs was to think of repatriating jobs or repealing Clinton’s NAFTA, how many of them know that the Dodd Frank Bill doesn’t deter shadow banking, how many of them have pushed for enacting the Wal Street 1% Tax (which does exists) which would pay for the programs that would go directly to investing in the people of the US? How many of our congressmen who watched weapons and resources go directly to terrorists groups in Libya and Syria have stopped to go “wait a second…this can’t happen”? How many of our congressmen have made a big deal about the LIBOR scandal and how it involves our own Federal Reserve, US private banks and other international banking institutuions – it’s the largest financial scandal since the ’08 Banking and Mortgage Fraud Scandal. The answer is hardly any of them?

The federal reserve is purchasing $40B in bonds PER MONTH UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE from the treasury which are backed by DERIVATIVES? Which means – inflation (milk, bread, gas, tuition, etc.), currency devaluation and the Fed then has the right to take your property for those who may have a mortgage that’s late or in default. This is also the same tactic of covering their own bets with your property agreements that got us into trouble during ’08 crisis. Are representatives are saying nothing about this? Meanwhile in Asia some countries have entered financial agreements to deal in non-US currencies because of US currency devaluation (India, China and Japan).

No congressmen have raised the question to Tim Geithner, Obama or Holder as to why these penalties by HSBC for laundering drug carterl money or dealing financially with enemy nations in Iran, is so low? These penalties are pathetic and unjust! Who’s going to jail – A: No one. And these penalties won’t deter these financial institutions from playing casino in the future. Obviously too big to fail still exists.

How many of these democratic congressmen during the election who were so worried about voter fraud and voter fairness sat back and watched voter fraud in the Repulican National Convention that was carried out against Ron Paul as Romney illegally stole his delegates and forced them sign waivers to vote Romney which is a federal offense? How many of the black congressmen (both democrat and republicans) sat back and watched voter unfairness acted out against Congressman Allen West – every last vote should have been counted whether or not you’re an Allen West fan – he only had to concede b/c the votes couldn’t be finished counting before the allotted time. That’s why it’s easy to see these Congressmen are nothing but lapdogs while the people have to suffer through broken promises every 4 to 8 years.
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TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/everything_you_wanted_to_know_about_the_trans_pacific_partnership/
is this the new NAFTA? The details of this has been quite secretive. If this is in line with NAFTA, what it is means is more military bases and black ops sites and cheap labor for those who have signed on to the partnership. What does this mean for the American people? – DECLINING MANUFACTURING BASE (which kills the “urban” area working class minorities withOUT college degrees…and there’s tons of those types) and it allows the military/intelligence/information industrial complexes to create false economies off the backs of regular American while they get rich. This global economy stuff is a sham for the workers- for the rich and central banks it’s a godsend. American car manufacturers, Google, Nike, microsoft, Northrup Gruman, apple, Exxon, BP, Boeing….they loooove NAFTA, GAT and the new TPP
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These agreements can be done with Congress. Obama doesn’t need congressional approval for signing these executive orders like NDAA. He doesn’t need congressional approval to invade Libya and Syria via the CIA ops (while avoiding call it an all invasion). This is all his stuff, so part of what you say is correct, but these Orders have his signature on them. Not anyone else’s.
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To see that we truly are under a “one party system” here are two great reads with many examples on why our Congressmen consistenly underserve us.

‘THROW THEM ALL OUT’ – by Peter Schweitzer
‘DEMOCRIPS AND REBLOODLICANS’ – by Jesse Ventura

Sorry for the long comment, Seattle Guy

I understand your point, but I’m not quite as cynical as you. God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think. So I’m a firm believer in the fact that education and knowledge is the key to all of man’s problems.

We simply have to reassess our cultural mores and make the pursuit of knowledge more fashionable – or cool – than the pursuit of fashion and bling. Then, through then acquisition of knowledge, we will acquire wisdom.

You see, man is not simply suffering from corruption and greed, we’re suffering from ignorance, in which corruption and greed is only a symptom.

No single action will eliminate the greed and corruption in politics. Educated voters would surely make a huge impact, but as for citizens self-educating, I only see that as being remotely possible. You would only have to look at the articles and replies on this and other Black online publications to see where our heads are. I seems like the choice of dialog is Serena’s butt, making your man happy and celebrity gossip, rather than what can I do to make a better life for myself and my people.

If we can agree that the core problem is that more money is being spent on running for the office (Congressional District) than running the office, we can than take steps to engage in constructive dialog to solve our problems.

Did you not hear George Carlin? Obama is the status quo and his Republican cohort Ben Bernanke is at the printing press creating another Housing Bubble to prop up Wall Street with blessings from uninformed people such as yourself.

I’m not gonna sit here and get in a spitball fight with someone who’s hiding behind a screen name. For all I know you could be Tavis Smiley or the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. Besides, it’s quite obvious that you’re turning over buildings, LOOKING, for anything you can find to criticize Obama. That alone betrays you as a hater. So let me cut you lose with a general statement for ALL Obama haters:

A MESSAGE TO OBAMA HATERS – WE’VE GOT YOUR NUMBER.

There is no status more lonely than that of an exceptional Black man – he’s hated by the White establishment because he’s a threat to the status quo, and he’s hated by the Black establishment because he’s a pie in the face of their delusions of grandeur.
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http://wattree.blogspot.com/2012/12/beneath-spin-eric-l_10.html