Comments on: Missing The Point

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:08:03 +0000

The elections in Florida make your claim about people wrong, Badtux. By manipulation the redistricting the Republican Party in Florida have marginalized their opposition and given them control of the state and its Congressional delegation, despite having fewer registered voters.

Elections in many states have been distorted by redistricting and outright fraud, aided and abetted by the corporate media. When opponents of the current pols can’t get their message out, it is no different than most banana republics.

When everyone, including the Supreme Court, believes that money is more important than ideas in elections, people don’t get to make meaningful decisions.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:21:07 +0000

Okay, so I just had to post a long response to this over on my own blog. Yes, it *is* Americans’ fault. Those bastards in Congress didn’t elect themselves to office, after all. Each and every one of them got more-or-less honestly electorated there. As long as Americans consistently vote for the most corrupt pol rather than the most honest guy, things are going to keep going the way they’re going. And furthermore, Reagan did not destroy the Federal Retirement System which kept federal bureaucrats honest (because they wanted to put in their 30 years of federal service for retirement thus could not be bribed with a private sector job if they ruled industry’s way) in a vacuum. He destroyed it with the full support of the American public, which didn’t want better retirement benefits for federal bureaucrats than they themselves got. Americans want honest government, but aren’t willing to pay for it — that’s the whole problem in a nutshell, and if you don’t pay for something, you don’t get it (doh!).

Don’t blame me, I voted for the hobbit in the California presidential primary…

– Badtux the “Facts are Facts” Penguin

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:56:05 +0000

They have obviously never read the reports of previous spills either! The much smaller Russian tanker spill off the Turkish coast took over 1,200 man days (about 4 man years) just to clean the beaches!

Most people, especially Politicians, are pig-ignorant morons.