How To Fix Our Government (Corrupt At It Is)

What we need to



Let's do this. It has to come from us.

Links:   So, you want to fix corruption?

The American Anti-Corruption Act | Criminalize Corruption

Sick of money corrupting politics? Here are 3 ways to fight

How To Strengthen America

We Must Get the Big Money Out of Our Elections and So, Government

We must fight to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision which opened up the financial coffers of the wealthy and corporations. It made it possible to pour unlimited amounts of money into election campaigns in the nation.



Additionally, we must fight to end campaign contributions, completely, totally. We must fight to Get the Big, Ugly Money Out of Our Election System and Government.

If we don't do these things, nothing will change. We won't get our government back for the people.

And this must come from us.

Two of the Most Important Quotes for America Today

Two of the most prophetic and important quotes of the last 60 years are President Dwight David Eisenhower's at the end of his Presdiency for the first:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

And this, the second:

To the new, incoming Congress

Quote of the day -- on money in our politics and government

“People do not fully appreciate the degree to which big money, campaign contributions and lobbying and PACs and corporate media play in whether or not serious legislation is discussed and passed,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told Truthdigger.com. “Despite the fact that we have a collapsing middle class, more people living in poverty than at any time during our history, and the gap between the very, very rich and everyone else growing wider, it is very hard for me to imagine significant legislation being passed that Wall Street and the big money interests don’t want.” 

--Sen. Bernie Sanders, Indep., Vermont

Missouri Ethics Commission in name only?

The Kansas City Star does another great job this morning (sorry, TKC) with an article about candidates for office who still have debts from earlier campaigns but haven't closed down the accounts, even though it's required by a 1997 law. Once again, this proves what newspapers can and should do best and why we still need them, in some form or another. Hopefully, they can somehow make it profitably to the online, digital age successfully. The biggest problem for me on this, I think, is that we need this Ethics Commission to be and do more than just their name. We need the Missouri State Ethics Commission to do their assigned jobs. We need them to follow through on their mandates. We need the Ethics Commission to keep tabs on the candidates and campaign contributors so the laws are followed and their mandates are fulfilled. That clearly didn't happen here and they--the Ethics Commission--failed us. It makes you wonder what else they're not doing. Hopefully there's nothing else they've missed or let us down on. Fortunately, in this case, we have The Kansas City Star, this time, to follow up on this for us. Who or what will it be in the future to keep them honest and law-abiding? Note to Missouri Ethics Commission: You only have one job--you may have many tasks but you only have one job--and that is to keep politicians, possible politicians and the associated organizations within the laws regarding ethics. Please do so. Link to original story:http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/04/2200330/missouri-ethics-reforms-raise.html