re: Victor Hill at it again

"Specific examples don't really tell that much"

The Kennedy-Bush collaboration was the domestic equivalent of the Nazi-Soviet Pact: it was two supposedly mortal enemies teaming up. And one party fighting to keep the opposing party's head is pretty much a direct example of how intertwined the two groups are.

As far as disastrous wars go - we've only had one: the late unpleasantness between North and South. Iraq and Afghanistan may have been clusterfricks, but they weren't really disastrous. And even then, it's been the nationbuilding phases (that we were promised would not follow) that have been the clusterfricks, with most of the casualties and expense. The takedown of both Baathist Iraq and Taliban Afghanistan were pretty quick affairs, though, like all military actions, they had their blunders.

I hate BOTH Major parties with equal furor...

This coming from a FORMER Card Carrying Republican Party Member....

The Republican Party has forgot about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution... ( The Democrats have forgotten them a long time ago )....

I had to go to the Libertarian Party.... at least they are not Power hungry....

Here's the thing that kills me, they have it in their power to stop all the influence from the uber wealthy.

Major campaign financing reform and kicking bullshite lobbies off the Hill would do it.

No more donations over $500 from anywhere, including non-profits, PAC's, and lobby groups. And when a politician leaves office for any reason, there is a 10-year probationary period where they can't receive any money or employment from any company or industry or organization or country that they had any interaction with or influence over while they were in office. This goes for foundations and non-profits they or one of their family members creates or gets involved in.

And make politicians and their family's bank accounts completely public record while they're in office and for 10 years after they leave.

Also add term limits to Congress. Maybe three or four 4-year terms. These unlimited 2-year terms are retarded.

Basically we kill every possible way for a politician to be influenced other than by their constituent bases' words, needs, and wishes.

But these greedy corrupt sons a bitches won't ever do anything like this for obvious reasons.

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One of the flaws of our electoral process is that dumb people are allowed to vote. This is how guys like this and Obama get elected. It's also why corrupt shite stains like Hillary will probably get elected too. Low IQ, gullible, ignorant, easily manipulated, dumb frickers being allowed to vote.

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Actually, the founders said you had to be white, male, and a landowner. I'm sure it's racist, sexist, and snobby; but dam wouldn't this be a different country if we stuck to this. I'd settle for only having taxpayers vote. That would probably be enough.

Porter, I would bet that most people who watch Inside Job don't grasp the full ramifications of the boom and bust cycles. Let me explain.

The performance standard for politicians is Gross Domestic Product. The last three booms, S&Ls, dot com and subprime mortgage all had effect of inflating GDP prior to subsequent crashes. GDP accounting credited politicians for booms but didn't penalize for the unrealized loss of net worth resulting from crashes.

What I'm describing is a ponzi economy that is extremely lucrative for the small minority running the scheme but very costly for everyone else.

Beef, that's an interesting little cartoon but about eight minutes in I can see that there is a misunderstanding about the Fed and money creation. Forget printing currency. Money creation is simply a bookkeeping entry.

I stopped watching at 9 minutes but I'll check out the rest later.