The dems and reps are in power have the control should they bear the responsiblity for their mismanagement?

Question

For people who are making fun of those who claim everything is about oil. There's also this little fact:

The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.
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http://www.earthrights.net/docs/oilrent....

Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities, with all the thousands of commidities in your state why aren't you getting paid?

With feds resources why can't feds pay 50 times better than Alaska?

Kuwait pays this way $58,000 y no rent, utilities, phone, hospital bills
Dubia pays this way
Norway I've heard has a similar system
I hear Nigeria is working on doing this

HOW FAR WILL YOU, YOUR KIDS, AND GRANDCHILDREN GET LEFT BEHIND IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE IF THE US DOES START A SYSTEM OF THIS KIND FOR THE US PEOPLE?

ARE WE TO BE PAUPER THIRD CLASS WORLD CITIZENS WHEN YOUR GRANDCHILDREN START TO WORK?

DO WE SLIDE FROM THE RICHEST NATION TO THE POOREST IN YOUR LIFETIME BECAUSE YOU LACK THE COURAGE, NERVE, OR BACKBONE TO TAKE ACTION NOW WHEN IT'S NEEDED?

VOTE! VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT DEMS OR REPS!
THEY ARE IN POWER AND HAVE THE CONTROL THEY MUST BEAR ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT!

Answer 1

we need a new party one that is not a farce like the current ones.a party that actually stands a chance and is not looked upon as a joke vote.unfortunately those with money have all the control so the regular people get screwed.bend over people another election is coming

Answer 2

What a concept!! Our government leaders take responsibility? I'm talking about the US here. Are you kidding? They still have a committee investigating who left the toilet seat up in the white house bathroom when Hillary was president. lol One of the first things a life long professional politician learns is how to play the blame game. Like congressmen/women blaming Bush for us going to war in Iraq when over 90% of them voted for the war. Like HE did it!! Why that evil so and so lied to me about that war even though I saw the same reports he did. Why he used voodoo or maybe I was hypnotized!And then a lot of us see these fancy suited hair sprayed slick tounged politicians get on tv and yell he lied! And if it's on that sunday show meet the press that you happen to be watching because the football game is on that channel next..well by god it has to be true!! That bastage Bush lied and he needs to take responsibility hell lets impeach the slime! It would be funny to watch if it wasn't so sad how we (the people) stumble along in our lives too busy to be concerned about how big we have let our government become. So I guess we play the blame game too even asking a question about who is responsible for bad decisions. Doesn't it really come back on us for continuing to vote (and most of us not vote)the way they tell us too and not taking the time to choose the right person for the job whether it be president or dog catcher by what they have done in the past. And I don't buy that bs that money is the reason the same old ones get in and we can't do anything about it. Voting doesn't cost you anything except time and a little gas money to get to the booth. But it does take effort and time away from important things like your favorite tv show you'd have to miss by voting.

Answer 3

Actually I wish there were a GOOD third party out there. But there's not a Conservative party. So I'm going to try and vote for the most fiscal conservative I can.

What's the budget today? About 2.3 trillion dollars? And we have a deficit? What is wrong with this picture?

Answer 4

I only need to ask you a question. When you do something wrong at your job, do your co-workers carry the blame, or are you force to take responsibility for your own actions?
On my job I must take responsibility for the things I do. I must be prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
To my dismay we hold ourselves to a higher standard than we hold our elected officials. They don't really have to do anything for the people, just be sure to send out the message to the people in a two bit sound bite. They don't read, they don't know, just don't interfer with their favorite T.V shows. They are non participates in their own government. That is why corporate america runs the country without having to take responsibility for their actions, they have their bought and paid puppets to take care of that aspect. To take the heat for their illegal activities. I say hold elected officials accountable to their oaths of office. I say place a penatly of life in prison for failure to uphold the oath of office. I say make each congressman, representative, judge, and all members of the excutive branch to have to take random drug tests through their entire terms in service to the people. I say they recieve the same punishment for their crimes that they would expect a defenant to take with a court appointed attorney. I say there is no such thing as national security, how can it be a secret when we are suppose to be a government of laws. A government of the people, for the people and by the people. I say stop corporate welfare. I say corruption should be considered an act of treason. I say hold them to the same standard that they hold us too.

Answer 5

This has got to be the longest question I've ever read, and I'll give a short opinion because I don't have an answer. Politicians should take responsibility, but won't. They never have before.

Answer 6

You are correct about the necessity to drill in ANWAR, but the people of this country continue to elect the people who are in office.

Answer 7

If you run I'll vote for you.Sounds like you have the answer.
Can you fix it?

Answer 8

WOW !!! with a question like that, you should be smart enof to answer it

Answer 9

UMMMMM....Doughnuts?! You lost me after the second word

Answer 10

ya..i would vote for a REpublican