deerfeeder
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Change ... Change ... Change!!!!!!!!!!
Not long ago I read what was, supposedly, a joke ... It said all the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.
Funny? Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny. They ALL promise change. How about if they run on a promise of restoration rather than change. A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable. Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.
We USED to have a strong dollar ... Politicians changed that.
Life USED to be sacred ... Politicians changed that.
Marriage USED to be sacred ... Politicians are changing that.
We USED to be respected around the world ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to have a strong manufacturing economy ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to have lower tax structures ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to enjoy more freedoms ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to be a large exporter of American made goods ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to be an OPENLY Christian nation ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to teach patriotism in schools ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to educate children in schools ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to enjoy freedom of speech ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to ENFORCE LEGAL citizenship ... Politicians changed that.
We USED to have affordable food & gas prices ... Politicians changed that, too . ... and one could go on and on with this list.
What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to change that as well if you will elect them.
When, oh WHEN, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say, enough is enough?
The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed, as it is now.
When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will America realize ... Most Politicians are what is wrong with America ?
PASS THIS ONE AROUND..........FOR A CHANGE CHANGE....NO!!!!RESTORE.....YES!!!! We should CHANGE all of our Senators and Congressmen in Washington and let someone new try it for a CHANGE.
I didn't write it, but I agree!  
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JCB
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EXCELLENT!! 
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!
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Crazyhorse
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I agree that politicians are to blame...........to a point.
Were those politicians able to gain their offices on their own hook, No.
Who put them in Power???
We The People Did.
Why or How did these politicians change so much???
Because We Asked Them Too.
How Were These Politicians Able To Stay In Power For So Long????
Because We Let Them.
We, ALL of us, as citizens of what was the Greatest Country on earth, have allowed these career politicians to stay in office, simply because the majority of us were satisfied with the life style that these ELECTED OFFICIALS, People that WE put in office were enacting legislation that made our lives easier and more comfortable.
How many on here fought the legislation that brought deregulation of the electric suppliers industry.
Very few probably, because we were told that deregulation would mean that the power companies would have to bid against each other, and our rates would be lower.
No one pointed out that all these new companies would have to be gaining permission from the utilities that already had lines in place, to sell their service and use the EXISTING LINES to supply the people buying that service.
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deerfeeder
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If I had it in my power there would be cahnge alright. Monumental change. Starting with both parties. Both of them are essentially a "good old boys" club. They and the money folks behind them decide who gets to run probably all the way down to the state level. If you aren't going to toe the line and be a yes man for whatever the party happens to be pushing, you don't get the money or the support to get elected.
The system has been so corrupted for the politicians gain that, imo, it only loosely resembles anything the founding fathers had in mind. Look at the retirement and health systems they covered themselves with.
Lucky thing that I can't really manipulate a computer enough to try to start a movement to get them (Senators & Representatives) all thrown out starting at the top.
It's time to put the PEOPLE back into "We the people..."
End of rant.
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skidmore88
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Amen.
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Crazyhorse
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That will be the only way this country will ever really change is to have term limits across the board for EVERY elected official NATIONWIDE.
From what I have noticed or observed over the years, is that one of, if not the biggest flaw of Americans is COMPLACENTCY, is things are running smooth in our daily lives we will put up with a lot of stuff, until someone throws a shoe in to the works.
We all need to start setting up and paying more attention to what kind of legislation is being presented to and supported by our elected officials from the city level all the way to the White House.
But we don't, because we don't think these little off election year proposals and ammendments really effect us, then when months or a year or two down the road, we realize that it DID effect us, then it is Hell top get such things repealed and off the books.
The goal of every American, regardless what level of politics it is, should be NO CAREER POLITICIANS.
If a person running for any office has as one of their Qualifying reasons for being elected, "X" years of Public service in some elected office, that should be a strike against them instead of a reason to keep moving them up the ladder. JMO.
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scruboak
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What they really mean, when they say change, is what you get back after taxes.
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Crazyhorse
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Ain't that the dadgum truth.
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Cool_Hand
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I'm going out on a limb here but what is wrong with America is, CH has got it partically right, we have no moral backbone. The family unit has all but disappeared. Everybody wants their cake and eat it too. Ask yourself a few questions. Here are a few.
1. With 4 million babies killed each year, where is the moral in that. Don't stand up and say its a persons right to do what they want to with their body.
2. Why is it costing so much to live and almost every single American is struggling to stay in a home?
3. What are we teaching our children about the world today? How to take care of themselves and to heck with everybody else?
4. With elections at hand why is ther some off the wall moron running for the presidency that wouldn't care if you were dying in the middle of the street?
5. Why do we have an over abundance of immigrants?
6. Why is the stock market in a hell of a shape?
7.Why is our loaning and banking institutions in a hell of a shape?
8. Why are drugs running rampid in every city in the world?
9. Why do people with money continue to have a greed for more and more with no concern what their greed does to anyone else.
10. And lastly, why has the world turned its back on the ONLY, yes atheists, and agnostics, I said ONLY hope that we will ever have if this nation is to ever be blessed again?
I'm sure there are many more reasons why we are in a critical situation but yall can chew on this for a while and tear it apart but I know where my trust is and its not in man. My2cents.
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HWY_MAN
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It's time to put the PEOPLE back into "We the people..."
How about we just get rid of all representatives. Why do we need Senators, Congressmen, and State representatives, County Commissioners, City Councils? Are we not capable of voting on legislation ourselves? Nobody can represent me, or my opinions, better than I can. Allow the people to vote on all legislation.
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deerfeeder
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See my vid in Tall Tales about potential Obama voters. Also, who will write the legislation? But, your basic point is a good one.
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DeerMe316
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Who counts the votes??? How do you or I know that our vote or anyones for that matter counted if we do not get to count the votes.....Maybe the government elects the government now days???
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dogcatcher
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Who counts the votes??? How do you or I know that our vote or anyones for that matter counted if we do not get to count the votes.....Maybe the government elects the government now days???
You too???? I spent 32 years working for the Federal government, 3 different government agencies, and 2 years in the US Army as a draftee. I have seen  that shouldn't be happening but does. It wouldn't surprise me if elections were not just a smoke and mirrors show.
Actually I really believe that elections are really handled like they are supposed to be. Every county in Texas has or should have an elections administrator. With that number of people just at the county level I think it would be very hard, actually next to impossible to have a system this large create a fraud on the people.
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Crazyhorse
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Just to play the Devil's Advocate for a minute, and I am doing this as simplistically as possible, because I am fairly sure that the majority of folks on the THF are not this way.
How many of us, will go out of our way to do something for ourselves, if someone else agree's to do it for us???????
After about 1880 or so, when the population of the US began to skyrocket, our goverment and the people in it from both of the major parties, started telling us that if we would let them, they would run the country for us, so we would not have to, and we let them.
The larger and more diverse our population became, a larger number of goverment officials and agencies had to be creaed and elected to better run our country for us.
As time rolled along to where we are at today, more and more of us came to depend soley on the goverment to do everything for us, provide us with cheap housing, provide us with income because we are too lazy to work, and allow us to parent 2 and 3 generations of people that feel the same way and act the same way we do.
It is all part of the human condition, just the same as wanting to rule over someone else, or take someone else's land away from them.
When there were less people in the world and life was harder, that is all people had to think about from the time they woke up in the morning till they went to sleep at night, was simply doing what ever was necessary to stay alive.
When we started allowing ourselves to depend upon others, some of us fell completely into the program and now realize we can not get out from under it because if we do, we will die. JMOTIA.
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Cozmo35
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I say let the ecomomy crash! Americans have gotten so use to having, they don't KNOW HOW to do without! Our ancestors did perfectly fine without a plasma TV and a $4.00 cup of starbucks coffee. I don't watch TV or drink coffee. If my horse could take me to work without the potiential of being run over by an idiot talking on a cell phone I'd ride him everyday. I raise vegetables and hunt my own food. Don't get me wrong, I buy from the grocery store, but I have the ability and know how not to. I believe we have not taught our children to fend for them selfs and for that, we have added to this situation. As I always told my kids, "IF YOU DON'T WORK, YOU DON'T EAT."
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