Are any politicians still for the good of the people?

Question

Would any politicians sacrifice any part of their career in order to do good for the people? That principal is what made this country great, having the peoples best interests in mind. Nowadays they all make their decisions on what the rest of the party wants, not for what the people want. I for one didn't want 30 million dollars to go to Japan so they could promote their automobiles in out country, especially since the Ford plant in Minneapolis is closing and all those people have to find jobs. Shouldn't we just get rid of these political parties, what good do they do. Please tell me.

John E makes a good point. He is obviously well educated and he has my respect. It is true the govt is for the good of the whole, but then why is everyone so unhappy with how things are going. If the govt is for the people, why do half of them dissapprove of the Pres. right now. Obviosly the people feel he is not on their side.

Answer 1

ALL the politicians are flim flam men, I can prove it! I would make Americans so rich the world would lick our boots to get what we would have.

Flim Flam Men:

They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!

They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!

They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!

They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!

They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, a news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!

They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!

So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!
They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!

The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.

It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement and abysmally poor judgment! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!

So I would go completely around them. Just leave them out of the loop!

America could conquer the world. Not with warring, but with such overwhelming wealth that the whole world would lick our boots to get our help for themselves. I can make a provable, tangible, graph able outline for doing this.

First someone like me would have to the President. I say that because I'm the kind of man that can't be knuckled under, I don't take you can't do that and just quit, and no matter how hard the job is I never stop short.

I’m a working class man, I came up doing body work, so I know how to fix the tangled mess others have made.

As President, this being THE most powerful position in the world, I would go completely around the Senate and the House. I would use the Executive Order and write the checks to get what needs to be done, done ASAP! The treasury is in the executive branch and Lincoln wrote checks to get things, so I would do the same.

By Executive Order, I would start with fixing the governments money problems and getting the citizens tax problems solved. Then I would stop the foreign companies that cheat the US out their share of taxes, and make a loophole free way to collect every penny they owe.

Next would come the illegals, I'd get them all registered, employed, and put them on the tax roles not us. We need the illegals paying taxes because there's just not enough Gen Xer's to pay the SS for the Boomers and Gen Xer's.

I'd make millions of high wage jobs with renewable power plant construction jobs and renewable power would be a priority. I'd build so much clean power we would have power in overabundance, and could supply the whole world with clean US made power. 1/3 of the money from the foreign power bills would be put into a fund and every head of household would get a paycheck and NO tax bill!

To continue doing this would make a book so I'm going to outline what’s to be quickly:

1st90 days by ExOrder
Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska
End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs
End tax paper work for citizens, not business
Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done
Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists, take the money out of politics
Make graft illegal, mandatory jail time
Close the DOE, save the money
Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military
Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money
Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container
Register illegals, get them on the 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 a fund from foreign power bills like Alaska uses to PAY us
End Nuclear power
Build electric powered roads, make millions more jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End dependence on foreign oil
Clean the polluted water with clean electric power
Return America to 50% of world’s economy


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.

Alaska uses Earth Rights to pay about $1000 p/yr and not tax their residents. With all 50 states my fed gov could pay $50,000 p/yr, NO TAXES, and fund the gov!

The foreign tax money, the illegals taxes, and earthrights money pays all the gov expenses, funds the military better than now, and pays down the debt with NO deficit.

The Renewable power fund would pay what I call a National Income Program, and when the fund matures in about 30 years, would pay about another $50,000 p/yr.

So $50,000 p/yr from the Earth Rights and NO taxes. Millions of high wage power plant construction jobs, we would need to build 5000 power plants just to start, and build for many years to come.

Then millions more jobs to build new electric powered roads to use the clean power. Thousands of jobs to build electric cars and trucks.

Then comes the other $50,000 p/yr from the National Income Program all with no taxes. And oil dependence ends!

Then the private SS account would have about a $1,000,000 in it when you retire. The rich make fortunes by building money in funds just this same way, so what works for the rich will for the nation.

This builds America to be 300,000,000 millionaires. The money would be pasted to your Aires and NO TAXES. Each generation would be richer than the last. Soon newborns would be born millionaires, and the system would continue to multiply their wealth for each next generation.

America would be so wealthy that soon we would be the envy of the world, and people from around the world would lick our boots for us to help them get where we would be. America rules the world with wealth, not war.

With stable power comes jobs, with jobs comes prosperity. Prosperity makes life comfortable, with comfort comes contentment. Contentment would bring peace, and war would be a thing of the past. If someone for some strange reason wanted start a war we could just stop beaming their power.

I take it you know electric power can be beamed on a microwave inside a laser beam to a satellite and put anywhere it's needed on the earth! So cut the beam and no power. It's hard to fight a war with no lights or power. America controls the power!

The renewable power is fuel-less so it's cheap clean power! It’ without the inflation of fuel costs, so the price would remain stable.

Would you vote for me to be the President?

Answer 2

yes, most of them as a matter of fact. even the ones i hate. the good of the people means all people not just you. the best interest of the whole country in spite of their naive misinterpretations of the government. as for ford, gm, and dodge. if they had started making quality products 30 years ago instead of gas hogs and pieces of **** they they would still hold market share and my respect. might even still be profitable. the parties help to provide balance of power in thus if one side quits doing the will of the people, the people no matter how ignorant will vote for the other parties of their choice. selling plastics, leather,steel, iron and coal to japan also feeds a hell of a lot of families.

Panacea, you are very confused. get an education it might help!
no i am not a democrat nor republican. yes. i vote. i vote for the best candidate!
do a little research. their voting records are public record! know who you vote for and why!
oh yea almost forgot VOTE! if you don't vote you have absolutely no right to complain!

Answer 3

Alright... you are singing my song... I think there should be a party for non-partisans. Simply tell your constituents how you feel on topics of importance and let them make a qualified decision. This party would allow anyone with any viewpoints to be a member. The party's only sticking points would be non-partisanship and a clean government (ie, screw the lobbyists). Let's create this party... who really needs dems or repubs or indes for that matter.

Answer 4

Good question but unfortunately the answer is no. That's why this place is in serious trouble and can't seem to get the resolve to do anything right. No politician in my book has any real integrity and most have personal agendas not so well hidden--driven by ego and greed. I think we are doomed myself.

Answer 5

Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont works for the good of the people. He is a independent. In fact he is the longest serving independent in the history of the Congress.

Answer 6

Government has become self-serving, its only goal to assure its own existence and growth.

But keep in mind that bad government, and bad politicians, is always the fault of the people. Most of us don't vote, and those who do have no idea what they're doing. Thus the saying; we always get the government we deserve.

Answer 7

Of course the good ones are still out there, in the SERVICE of the people! but they are overthrown by the majority of the opposition!

Answer 8

Only the republicans do this. The democrats serve only marxism and genocide.

Answer 9

Completely agree. Any politician, except maybe local council members, is inherently dirty.