Topic: Democrats: Pass at least two constitutional changes
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Sun 07/03/16 08:18 AM

Democrats: Pass at least two constitutional changes

The Democratic Party's proposed platform is calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn at least two Supreme Court decisions related to campaign finance, and another to ensure "equal rights."

Referring to the Constitution as simply a "blueprint for progress," the platform states, Democrats seek to overturn Buckley v. Valeo, the 1976 decision striking down campaign spending limits, and Citizens United, the 2010 decision that extended press freedom to corporations, labor unions and other associations.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-pass-at-least-two-constitutional-changes/article/2595491

I'm all for repealing Citizens United. Corporations and Unions are NOT people as the SCOTUS stated in their decision. They are servants of the people! Well paid servants in fact!

I'm all for equal rights as well, but how do you pass a law that kills small business and think you are helping anyone who might actually benefit from it? It brings Oblowmecare to mind!

Lastly, I worry any time this govt wants to play around inside our Constitution! Too many times the House has put forward bills that have gone to the Congress to be "gutted" and the whole thing thrown out and replaced with something non-related to the original bill at all while the heading remains the same. The Farm Bill comes to mind on this one, and the Patriot Act! How do you vote NO to a bill your voters think helps farmers feed the nation or another that sounds like voting against it is downright unpatriotic?

The truth of course is that Monsatan and Big Pharma replaced any help to farmers and the Patriot Act ended many of "we the people(s)" rights in the eyes of the govt..... even though they were "not to be infringed" or "unalienable". He who writes the laws makes the laws and controls enforcement. Some of course are more readily enforced and funded than others.... like any removing the rights of the people over their govt. The master becomes the servant.

There was a time when the will of the people meant something, but a ruling body with a trust rating of only 8% is not a congress I want playing with my Constitution!

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Sun 07/03/16 08:32 AM
Edited by Conrad_73 on Sun 07/03/16 08:40 AM


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Exclusive_means_for_amending_the_Constitution

Problem is when those Nine Lawyers start fiddling with the Constitution!

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Sun 07/03/16 08:42 AM
Nobody forces you to vote on a bill that you don't like, so far that's the only freedom we have, but yeah, equal rights do kill small business. I'm a disabled Russian adult, and I can't find proper job due to the affirmative action. Now,. I don't worry about myself much, since I luckily was managed to get a certificate, but all of my friends that have either autism or Down Syndrome suffer to get a job because the blacks and Hispanics occupy them!

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Sun 07/03/16 10:20 AM

Nobody forces you to vote on a bill that you don't like, so far that's the only freedom we have, but yeah, equal rights do kill small business. I'm a disabled Russian adult, and I can't find proper job due to the affirmative action. Now,. I don't worry about myself much, since I luckily was managed to get a certificate, but all of my friends that have either autism or Down Syndrome suffer to get a job because the blacks and Hispanics occupy them!


It's insanity to believe a body of millionaire former state legislator, lawyers and former CEO elites have any clue as to how their actions affect anyone below their pay grade. They don't fraternize, probably don't know anyone, or care to, that occupies those ranks of existence.

We have the right to lobby congress for a redress of grievances, but we of course are at the back of the line behind those who lobby for the large unions and corporations with deep pockets.

Our representatives, it has been shown, spend more than 40% or more of their time in office fundraising for themselves and the party coffers asking for donations to their various campaigns for re-election. Their time on the floor for debates or voting on bills before them is scheduled around their time mandated for those campaign donation calls. Most don't, or can't due to time available to them, read most of those bills before voting on them, ceding their votes to the wills of senior party officials or heads of committee telling them which way to vote.... in other words, those influenced and lobbied most in their party.

It has gotten to the point that the unions and large corporations are the ones writing the laws, and small business and the middle class, the backbone of American jobs and households, are the ones paying the price for this crony capitalist corruption.

The Clintons have perfected this "pay to play" political money tree, but DC is the epitome and birthplace of it! It is the office complex of the "Corporation of the United States"... a nation within a nation... a nation state.... with its own laws.

Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City
http://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city

It is no wonder our Constitution and its protections of the people under the Bill Of Rights means so little to them.

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Sun 07/03/16 10:41 AM
“Lobbying” is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy—of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon “friendships” to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The Pull Peddlers,”


http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/lobbying.html

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Since there is no rational justification for the sacrifice of some men to others, there is no objective criterion by which such a sacrifice can be guided in practice. All “public interest” legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined, undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials.

The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly.

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The Pull Peddlers,”

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/interventionism_(economic).html

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Sun 07/03/16 07:27 PM
Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City

http://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city/

Paris France is a separate entity as well.

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Sun 07/03/16 07:45 PM

Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City

http://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city/

Paris France is a separate entity as well.


Meanwhile, back in this universe . . .

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Sun 07/03/16 09:14 PM


Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City

http://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city/

Paris France is a separate entity as well.


Meanwhile, back in this universe . . .


Which universe is that?
The actual universe or the one you pretend your a Melmacian in?