by
Carl Hampton
08/30/2006
We never really seem to be too far away
from another election whether it’s in our
communities, for the city or the state. Then
there's always the “BIG” show - the
Presidential election. Can anyone remember
when it stopped being about issues and
became a Media Circus. It's just like
playing poker where the man (or woman) with
the most money usually wins.
It seems to me that we have allowed the
“Spin Doctors” to control our lives.
Negative advertising campaigns have become
the norm. Do they really think we are all
that dumb? Is this the reason why election
day turnout in the U.S. has dropped to one
of the lowest in the free world. They (the
politicians) have long since passed the
point where they could be trusted to
regulate themselves, so it's time we did it
for them.
Campaigns for the November elections now
start in late July or early August with each
candidate running negative television
advertising telling us why we should not
vote for the other candidate. It would
appear that the best way to hide their own
inabilities to actually do the job for which
they are seeking election is to attack the
other person’s past misdeeds.
With millions of American families living
well below the poverty line and hundreds of
thousands of our elderly unable to buy food
due to the cost of their medication, how can
they (the politicians) justify spending tens
of million of dollars on a Senate seat
election and hundreds of millions on a
Presidential election??? After all, most of
these jobs pay only a few hundred thousand
dollars a year in salaries at best. And what
do we normally get for all this money?
Answer: a lot of LIES AND SMILES. During the
elections, they all promise to make a big
difference in our lives and they do –
funny how WE ALWAYS SEEM TO END UP WORSE
OFF.
We (the people) will never ever get the
politicians we deserve all the time we
continue to allow “Big Business” and
“Special Interest Groups” to dictate who
we elect to serve us. He who pays the piper
calls the tunes. It's as simple as that.
Here are two very simple changes we SHOULD
demand: (1) Election Campaign Funds limited
to 3 times the salary of the position they
are seeking; and (2) no advertising
campaigns prior to 28 days before the date
of the election. Wouldn't it be nice if all
politicians’ pay was related to
productivity and results! I wonder how long
it would take to resolve issues such as
social security, healthcare and
homelessness. If that was the case, I wonder
how many of them would want the job then?
After all, just like the rest of us, they
would have to actually do something, like
WORK.
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