- Congressional Term Limits
- The elimination of private schools in America
- Property taxed based public school systems
- Health benefits for US Veterans
- The war on drugs and its impact on minorities
- Marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance
- Same sex marriage
- Tax loopholes
- The American tax code
- Federal student loans
- The Postal Service and junk mail
- High speed internet service as a utility
- Nutritional value of public school lunches (Pizza a vegetable?… Come on!)
- The state of the American infrastructure
- The elimination of Congressional Universal Health Care
- Public Universal Health Care
- Inner city violence
- American Obesity
- Ethanol; its effects; its advantages; its known disadvantages
- America’s energy crisis
- Why are there just two parties represented at the “public” presidential debates? Yeah debate that! Shouldn’t the debates be open to at least a third party candidate that is on at least 50% of the election day ballots?
And yes, Folk intentionally left out the economy. Folk believes that if you fix the shyt on the fvcking Debate this list, the economy will right itself.
The reason why Folk don’t give two shyts about the debates is because we’ve made a demi-god of the President without acknowledging that the President is nothing more than a political party talking head. The real power lies in Congress.
The debates have become nothing more than an elaborate circus for the public to anally fvcked themselves with a seductive oratory covered microphone in the shape of a rolled up American constitution.
Folk will watch the debates. Folk will also keep a tickle me Elmo handy to rub against Folk genitals every time Folk hears the phrase “what’s best for America and the American people”, as if they themselves are above American citizenship. Of course with all the health and financial benefits people in Federal office receive for life, Folk too would feel as if the almighty god begs to lick the toe jamb and sock lint from between Folk’s little toe.
What issues would you like to see debated this week? How do you feel about the debates? Are they still relevant? You do what you do when you do what you do in the comments! Happy October.
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The two party system is designed to keep the masses divided into two factions, both believing that the other side is driving the bus to hell and only their own party knows how to use the GPS. All of this is bulls**t. The reality is that Congress and the President are having a huge party on the bus with coke, smack and hookers. All of their rich friends paid for the party. With your money. You know, the money they got from tax breaks and corporate welfare. But people keep thinking the bus is coming along to pick them up at any minute now. Like the party will really get jamming once you're on the bus. The bus ain't stopping for you. It already ran your ass over.
'' the President is nothing more than a political party talking head''……..I almost got beheaded last election for saying this,But I used the words''The'man's' Political Mouthpiece''.The 2 things I want them to touch on is''Obama care and Marriage Equality the pros of it.
Great list. Throw i the privatization of prisons, and the attempted privatization of public education. How can a government run court system take a person convicted by citizens and turn him over to a private corporation for "rehabilitation" where part of that rehab is making computer chips, when he won't be able to get a job making computer chips when he gets out because he has a criminal record. Also, the permanent loss of voting rights for criminals who have paid their debt to society is a problem, especially when those same people are expected to pay taxes but not pick the government officials who will distribute those taxes.
Anyway…
Yeah, the debate is like the question and answer part of picking a prom king. A few votes may get swayed, but basically the most popular/least embarrassing kid will get elected. The best thing they can do is have the Libertarian and Green Party candidates debate with them. Then again, that would destroy the concept of prepackaged. all-or-nothing platforms, and would only serve to confuse us. The debates are almost irrelevant, but not totally. There are a few million people who legitimately have not made up their minds about this presidential election. Many are just looking for some reason to vote against Obama that won't sound straight racist or idiotic. Others are so open-minded that they need a head to head charm contest to make a decision. But as far as brining out new facts, or clarifying issues, the debates will be useless. Both candidates will spend several hours talking about Obama's record, and neither will introduce much in terms of process toward their goals.
It has become painfully clear to me over that over the past 20-30 years or so (yeah I'm older than the cellphone get over it) that the very way our political system is set up, completely prevents anything from getting done.
All those "checks and balances" that were installed to make damn sure that America would never end up like a monarchy ie all the power in the political body of one person – have now served centuries later to end us up in almost completely opposite to what a democracy is or is supposed to be. Filibuster anyone? If the president doesn't have a party majority he can't get shyt done and barely can even if he does.
Up until Obama's original run for office, I voted for whoever was running in the Democratic party – from the president on down to whatever local levels the party split reaches. For laws and propositions I voted the way I saw best to help out my fellow human beings ie civil rights and liberties. In 2008 I voted for history before anything else. I wanted it to be so, but I never really figured my life would change much when Obama came into office. It didn't.
Just like it never much changed all those other times. Truth be told, I look at that list and realize that in this modern age of american politics – nothing can ever be radically changed. Sure we had a recession hit and hit us hard, but that bubble would have burst regardless. Perhaps Bush could have lifted a finger or two to stop it from happening when it did, but that would only have delayed the inevitable.
Now more than ever everything is global and we and other countries are inextricably tied to each other. I was already out of work and struggling with getting and keeping jobs before the recession hit. Maybe my situation is unique. Maybe I lucked out not buying some huge house I couldn't afford or run around owning three cars and running up my credit cards like there was never gonna be no tomorrow.
Maybe my life doesn't change no matter who's in office because my life is sorry and it sucks. But just maybe I'm representative of a majority of Americans out there. I'm not saying that certain things don't get done, and I'll never stop voting for the party that as a Black Woman in America seems to have my better (if not best) interests in mind; but I am awake to the realities of our political system.
I mean look at that kid you guys blogged about lil ways back. He went out on his own and raised the money to get done something for his city that apparently couldn't be done any other way – because the political system in place that SHOULD have been able to do right for that city had been so far broken down. That is on the grass roots level. To think that the same thing hasn't happened at the very top of the system is to remain blind.
So I'll vote Democratic Party until I'm blue in the face (pun intended) but I don't really look to politics to solve any of those issues on that list. We, like that enterprising young kid are going to have to figure out how to band together and go out on our own – just like he did – to get shyt done.
And as for the debates. I agree. They really only serve to get anyone who is at this point (not that I see HOW) still not sure who they are going to vote for. Mostly I vote because of three main things. As a woman I can't not vote. As a Black person living in America, I can't NOT vote. And as a citizen of a country (or at least in my town so far) where I can walk in to vote without fearing for my life – I CAN'T NOT VOTE. Regardless of how we've screwed up the system, I'm standing on some pretty powerful shoulders and I won't let their struggle and legacy go to waste and be for nothing. I pay homage to history and to the past of my people and my gender when I take the action of voting.
And despite my views on our political system, Obama does raise an interesting point. If your vote doesn't count then why are people trying so damn hard to prevent you from doing so?
/end crazy azz rant – thanks for listening
'' If your vote doesn't count then why are people trying so damn hard to prevent you from doing so?''…….THIS!!!!…..I had a conversation with this young sister who'll be voting for the first time,I broke down how we fought too hard to even get the Right to vote.Sadly,she said they didn't teach them that here in history class.I even if you don't agree with either parties' stance,This is so much bigger than that.GET OUT AND VOTE!!!
The reason why we only have two parties represented in most of the presidential debates is because the libertarians are quick to vote replublican(and thus eliminate their power as their own party, silly them) and the green party is quick to vote democrat or write in. The two main parties at the moment put in the leg work period. If the "younger" parties would put in the leg work, set up offices, work year round so that during congressional elections(usually called mid term), senatorial and presidential elections they met the requirements to get on the ballot and regularly fielded a candidate they could ask for a seat at the table. Part of it is about money but the rest of it is about work.
As for what I would like debated, how about corporate tax loopholes.
Elimination of trade agreements with countries who place extra duties onto our products
Tax penalties for companies accepting government contracts who outsource more than 60% of their labor
CEO pay caps, especially if they start cutting payroll before they take a reduction of Executive Perks. if MOST CEO's make 350+ what their regular "on the line" non executive staff employees make that means if that person takes a 10% pay cut during a company down turn they could say 35+ jobs. So if everybody in upper management were to do that 1 that would save a ****load of money for the shareholders(since the golden parachute is what eats up a ****load of profits in the first place). 2 instead of companies losing years of experience to the unemployment line they could easily ramp back up once the economy got on better footing(hell with a few hundred(or thousand) extra people still working would the economy slow down as far).
Either switching congressional healthcare with average american healthcare or universal congressional healthcare for all.
Congressional and Senatorial raises being on the ballot every 4 years. If you feel the congress(at every level) has done a good job you can vote them a raise, if you don't they don't get one. They work for the regular citizens so just like most of us can't vote our own raises it is decided by our employer so should theirs
The elimination of private schools in America – Don't you DARE!!!!