Have you had enough of the snake oil?

Question

What ever happened to thinking about our community, state and country first?

Answer 1

Politics is a big money shell game

The politicians have to court the special interest groups that financed them

No one is held accountable any more

It is our age of " Enlightenment"

Answer 2

Snake oil is voodoo economics, what has happened is greed. Everyone is greedy in a capitalistic society. I come first is the major problem with it. I only have 40 billion and I need 50 to live life right. However the rest of the community suffers, programs are cut, to fund wars to enrich you, your family and your rich friends and then you get the complete idiot that can not see this. That is probably the worst of them all, the neo's that cannot see what is happening to the the world around them.

Answer 3

I just saw Al Gore's movie, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, last night.

While I keep an open mind about global warming, he pointed out the reason that so many issues are not tackled: they are very inconvenient for the politician.

How much of a masochist would a politician have to be to embroil himself in the illegal immigration mess? He'll lose votes.

What Senator is going to risk his seat by promoting alternative fuel sources and cars that don't function on the internal combustion engine? Only a Senator with a career death wish.

Republican or Democrat, no one wants to handle the tough issues. It's just not in their immediate self interest. Meanwhile, all the glaciers are melting.

Answer 4

Those things gradually go down the drain in a capitalist society because we are taught to put 'self' ahead of community.

Greed of the wealthy is respected and rewarded as you can see when you watch the rich on tv being honored or try getting a last minute reservation if you are not one of the rich and famous.

Looking our for number 1 is the standard and the 'more' you have the higher you are positioned in society.

Answer 5

I haven't heard a single Democrat on here put their country first. They were too busy criticizing the President, the Country, businesses, & the Military & anything else they do not control. I have definitely had enough snake oil and at 50, I thought I had heard it all. It was not this much criticism when Nixon was resigning. Grow up & realize that life is not perfect & you can not always have your way. WHOOO!! I feel better. Thanks.

Answer 6

Since Jan., 2001.

Same thing that happens every time a republican gets in office- we go chasing around imaginary enemies while the country goes to hell.

Answer 7

YES and the dimocRATS are real good at the snake-oil business.

Answer 8

Some are qualified to do so, most are not. Therein lies much of the problem.

Answer 9

What happened to when you pay people to do a job they return a profit? Our officials get paid huge amounts and return us no profit! WE are getting screwed! It should work like this;


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.
Source(s):

Hoover Institution
Kuwait:
Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz
It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.

Pollution free electric power has been all over DC. Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE, Bush and many others you wouldn’t know.

Clinton “was too busy moving the country forward”
Gore said “I wish you good luck, I’m glad to see other’s are working on our energy problem”
Newt “promised his full support” To sell to Ga. Power for a .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this tech
I have letters from these crumbs saying this!
Sam was to busy with Armed Services he just brushed me off real fast!
Mason Wiggins aide to Congressman Walker of the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee said “ this appears to be the secret we’ve been looking for” he took it to friends in the DOE. DOE management found it had come in the back door and threw 100% clean electric power 1000 times more electric power than the largest Nuclear plant.
The Bush administration has refused all attempts at communication. They have returned no calls and answered no emails.

I told everyone in the government that when the US was supplied to overabundance. The power plants would be built to supply the world and when all the power bills came back to the US. I wanted to take 1/3 of the profit divide it and pay every US citizen what I call a National Income Program. When working at capacity this could be $50,000 dollars per year for every US citizen.

If Alaska pays
Kuwait pays even it’s indirectly after the gulf war losses
Dubai pays
I’ve read Norway does something like this
I’ve read Nigeria is working on a fund to pay the people also

Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities.

With all the commodities in your state.

Why can’t your state pay you?

With the resources the feds can’t they pay 50 times what Alaska pays?

We need a new National Income Party to do this;

1st90 days by ExOrder
End income taxes;fund the Gov right way,not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance budget,officials not paid till done
Regular people for elected officials no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists take money out of politics
Make graft illegal mandatory jail time
Close DOE save money
Take Gov out of schools PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for war,make exit plan with military
Prisoners work for jail costs not us save money
Foreign tax cheats pay tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals get on tax roles not us
Private SS accounts makes us millionaires no gov access to money
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power make millions of high wage jobs
Build electric powered roads millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean polluted water with power
Pay not tax make national earth rights like Alaska
Return America to 50% of world’s economy


The dems and reps have all the power and all the control.
Shouldn’t they bear all the responsibility for their mismanagement?

It is time to take America back for the people.

VOTE! Vote for anyone as long as they’re not a democrat or republican!

If our founding father were alive today.
They would lay siege to DC tar and feather ALL the officials.
Then hang them on the steps for all to see the consequences of screwing Americans!!

If we continue to ask for truth, then refuse to listen.
Mankind will forever, be doomed to destruction.

There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires losing no freedoms, only to act responsibly!


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