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Miltamec Soundsquinaez · 07-08-2008, 07:25 PM

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Politics is not for the weak at all. To hang in their day after day, for a cause you think is good (despite what you think) while the media, opponents and constituents rip you to shreds is harder than you could possibly imagine. If you had to bring together a country as divided as the states are right now, you’d do what it takes too. Lying, as Strauss once wrote, can be highly noble. It was once said that the administration knew of the Pearl Harbor plans and let it happen to convince the country WWII was a needed action to address. Would you have preferred us to stay isolated?

JayJamJay said earlier that all politicians are necessarily corrupt; and that may be true in our system. I don't understand why we can't raise the presidents pay to at least $2-3 million per year. We have professional athletes who make about 10 times that, and just in endorsement deals. You're talking about the throne of an empire, becoming the leader of the 'greatest country on earth', and arguably the head of the most important job in the world.

We haven't a president who wasn't corrupted by lobbyists since Jimmy Carter. It may have even gone back farther. All I know is there are 3 main reasons a person in today's world aspires to be president:
1) To attain wealth
2) To hoard power over us
3) They genuinely want to help out this country, and the world.

We need to pay the president more money, so he's not so likely to make friends with lobbyists. We should have an I.Q. test for the candidates. America is so broke up, and most can't even decide whether Bush, McCain, and Obama are even intelligent people. I think once this country actually had intelligent presidents. But now, it's in the corporations best interests to market candidates with looser morals, and yes, I'm making the correlation between loose morals and low intelligence.

Since Reaganomics starting tearing apart our middle class in 1980, we have been becoming a slave state, and in today's society we have to work like slaves just to keep the roof over our head. Or we're busy going to college, and still working 30 hours to pay tuition. Or we're out sipping wine on a yacht, 'saying f*ck the world,' because they have worked in that world, and they hate it, because they know it's busy, busy, busy.

We're so busy in today's world, we don't have time to learn about the issues, or the candidates. We just want to see some 20 second clip of an oppressive dictatorial candidate banging his gavel on T.V. to make us feel safe. We're so f*cking stupid we don't even read any more. We read about how to make money and God.

Read about inequalities if you want to make the world a better place, PEACE!!

07-08-2008, 07:25 PM	#79 (permalink)
Miltamec Soundsquinaez Aural melody discerner Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in a truck down by the interstate Posts: 347	[QUOTE=TheBig3KilledMyRainDog;496198] Politics is not for the weak at all. To hang in their day after day, for a cause you think is good (despite what you think) while the media, opponents and constituents rip you to shreds is harder than you could possibly imagine. If you had to bring together a country as divided as the states are right now, you’d do what it takes too. Lying, as Strauss once wrote, can be highly noble. It was once said that the administration knew of the Pearl Harbor plans and let it happen to convince the country WWII was a needed action to address. Would you have preferred us to stay isolated? JayJamJay said earlier that all politicians are necessarily corrupt; and that may be true in our system. I don't understand why we can't raise the presidents pay to at least $2-3 million per year. We have professional athletes who make about 10 times that, and just in endorsement deals. You're talking about the throne of an empire, becoming the leader of the 'greatest country on earth', and arguably the head of the most important job in the world. We haven't a president who wasn't corrupted by lobbyists since Jimmy Carter. It may have even gone back farther. All I know is there are 3 main reasons a person in today's world aspires to be president: 1) To attain wealth 2) To hoard power over us 3) They genuinely want to help out this country, and the world. We need to pay the president more money, so he's not so likely to make friends with lobbyists. We should have an I.Q. test for the candidates. America is so broke up, and most can't even decide whether Bush, McCain, and Obama are even intelligent people. I think once this country actually had intelligent presidents. But now, it's in the corporations best interests to market candidates with looser morals, and yes, I'm making the correlation between loose morals and low intelligence. Since Reaganomics starting tearing apart our middle class in 1980, we have been becoming a slave state, and in today's society we have to work like slaves just to keep the roof over our head. Or we're busy going to college, and still working 30 hours to pay tuition. Or we're out sipping wine on a yacht, 'saying fck the world,' because they have worked in that world, and they hate it, because they know it's busy, busy, busy. We're so busy in today's world, we don't have time to learn about the issues, or the candidates. We just want to see some 20 second clip of an oppressive dictatorial candidate banging his gavel on T.V. to make us feel safe. We're so fcking stupid we don't even read any more. We read about how to make money and God. Read about inequalities if you want to make the world a better place, PEACE!!