Take the "For Sale" sign off the Capitol lawn!

http://bit.ly/chcrf2 As long as politicians are accountable to the corporations and lobbyists who finance their campaigns, they are never going to be accountable to the people who elect them. It's time to take the "For Sale" sign off the Capitol Lawn. Pass Fair Elections NOW! Sign the petition at www.fairelectionsnow.org

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News & Politics

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• fair elections
• campaign finance reform
• corporations
• politicians
• lobbyists
• Monsanto
• David Vitter
• Charles Grassley
• BP
• Deepwater Horizon
• Massey Energy Company
• Dominica Cibilich
• Shelley Moore Capito
• Jim Kalbach
• Chuck Nelson

[abbadabbadolittle]

@azmildman I have an idea lets privatize these politicians jobs, giving us the power to hire and FIRE when we see fit. No terms of 4years or whatever....you screw us we fire you....and if you are fired no benefits for life or pensions. Good for America. Good for the people.

[abbadabbadolittle]

Transfer of wealth, our tax dollars being handed over to these corporate criminals. Monsanto is trying to patton the pig......freaks. Genetically altered food and grains...antibiotics ...they are all Frankiensteins...not to mention the animal cruelty going on in these factory farms. 98% of our politicians are working for these corporate dirt-bags. No safety or regulations...too costly to the bottom line ...if people die, they can be replaced.

[hozelda]

@susanjmaki

>> Actually the unions, and left leaning special interests exert much more influence over the congress than big business.

You might believe that, but that's not what was covered by the video so perhaps you can link to something if you get the chance. Also, there are an awful lot of people that agree that corporations are a serious interference on our democracy. I don't think those numbers are made up (the 70%+).

[badattitude77769]

@phartzyone My state is bought and paid for by corporations also. Money talks, families suffer.

[badattitude77769]

@susanjmaki I agree about the finances and charisma, it is all image.

[susanjmaki]

It's not the tea party people, like myself, that are your problem. Actually the unions, and left leaning special interests exert much more influence over the congress than big business. I agree that we need to get along as individuals. But there is no "right wing propaganda media". Most of the media leans left. They were so in love with the idea of a black president, that they didn't vet him like other candidates. To bad we can't elect officials in blind elections. No financial of charisma.

[hugesinker]

Sheesh.. 8 minutes and they still never gave an overview of the actual proposal. I mean, what is it? Are they in favor of ending these idiotic subsidies? Do they want an entity with a proper alignment of incentives to ensure safety in mines and drill platforms (hint- that isn't the government). What do they mean by "corporate finance reform"? There are dozens of different ways to try to try to reform this, and many of them are just bad news.

[celticgurl99]

@celticgurl99 Does college serve everyone this way? No. Is college regurgitation of facts and theories? Yes, students have to learn critical thinking. There is absolutely no such thing as truly objective thought, everyone has an agenda. Know this going in, be creative and react accordingly. If one does not have schematas of the current knowledge, even valid points are suspect.

So again, thanks for a challenging me to re-evaluate what I think I know. Happy trails partner.

[celticgurl99]

@celticgurl99 No one told me to go read Rene Descartes, Adam Smith, or Kenneth Lux. When I lived near MSU and Uof M Neo-con college friends just dismissed a waitress's ideas as stupid working class idealism. One author repeatedly recommended was Ayn Rand, and in reading about Objectivism I came up with a critique of her philosophy without aid of any hippie liberal professors or rightwing thinktank trained instructors. College serves my personal responsibility to think for myself.

[celticgurl99]

@celticgurl99 If students can not reason for themselves, and techniques for doing so do not become part of them because they resist it or are too swayed by a particular professor who discourages critical thinking, not just to pass a test and regurgitate what is expected to take what is true to them out of it and leave what is not behind, it is not having different concepts available to them to chose from that causes this. Ultimately a college student is responsible for their own thoughts.

[celticgurl99]

@celticgurl99 I do want to thank you for making me think more critically and being respectful in your comment to me. I would not go on further with this sideline, but I think it might serve those who may read it. If I follow your reasoning, higher learning distorts perception. I stand by my statement there can be 'college-educated idiots'. College doesn't make them that way, if they were looking to have certain perceptions reinforced they are.

[celticgurl99]

@bingramtube Apparantly because I make the effort to correct my naturally atrocious spelling I am a pre-programmed robot. It is amusing to me that you think college encourages students not to think for themselves but rather put their thoughts in a rational manner that can be defended. The 30 some community college credits I will have in December have given me more knowledge which I can use creatively as a natural critical thinker. But you are correct in that knowledge is not wisdom.