I pose this question for Americans, but anyone can answer...?

Question

Do you think your states lawmakers in Washington are honest, usually honest, or deceitful and greedy? Do they perform in your behalf or for their own greedy selves? The secret meetings and legislation that you have no access to information because of "National Security" can be as crooked as a dog’s hind leg if they so choose. Yes, I've already made up my mind but what do you think? Are they honest injuns or are they legalized crooks? Is our system going to Hades in a handbag?

Answer 1

We need a new political party! We need a party that works for the regular Americans like customer service in a department store, for the little guys like you and me. Our government treats us worse than they treat third world refugees, look at the Tsunami and New Orleans after the hurricane.

We now work our brains out at low level jobs because the flim flam men politicians have rewritten the laws and sent our good jobs abroad. They gave away our tax money to foreigners that built their factories with our tax money. This has to stop, it doesn’t work for America, it robs us and our children of our future.

The National Income Party :

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, graphable 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 happen ASAP! The treasury is in the executive branch and Lincoln wrote checks to get things done, 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, renewable power would be a priority. I'd build so much clean power we would have power in overabundance, and we 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:

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 the citizens, not business
End all welfare programs, save the money
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, have 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 the illegals, put them to work and 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 more millions of high wage jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End our 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 government could pay $50,000 p/yr, NO TAXES, and fund the government!

The foreign tariff money, the illegals taxes, and earth rights money pays all the government expenses, funds the military better than now, and pays down the national 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 make millions more high wage jobs to build new electric powered roads to use the clean power. Make thousands of jobs to build electric cars and trucks that use power from the new electric powered roads.

Foreign oil dependence would end! The Arabs could drink their oil, we don’t need it any more. The oil money that funds the terrorists would dry up, and terrorism would strangle, then die. Domestic oil production would supply all our needs.

Then comes the $50,000 p/yr from the National Income Program, with the Earth Rights money my government could then pay every household $100,000p/yr, all with no taxes.

Then the private SS accounts would have about a $1,000,000 in them for your retirement. The rich make fortunes by building money in funds just this same way, so what works for the rich, will work for the nation.

This builds America to be 300,000,000 millionaires. The money would be passed to your Aires and NO TAXES. Each new generation would be richer than their forebears. 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 third world 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 them 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’s without the inflation of fuel costs, so the price would remain stable.

I grew up loving to watch Super Man as a kid, he made a lasting impression on me. I’ve lived my life by his motto “ Truth, Justice, and the American Way!”, it still rings in my ears today as it did when I was a child. I want to bring this to America’s government, and drive out the flim flam men! I want America to BE the shining example all the world wishes to emulate.

The 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. 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 was 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.

We are all slaves, we own nothing! Even if you paid off the bank, try not paying the extortion tax, and the government takes your house. Try not paying the income extortion tax, and you go to jail. You can’t even run away like the slaves of old. The government will hunt you down, and you got to jail.

What’s the difference? You pay with your work, or you work to pay. We are slaves, the smoke and mirrors BS hides the truth from us. Da masser geds his’uns pound a flesh. Sucks! Doesn’t it?

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!

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The universe grows smaller every day.
The treat to security by any group,
anywhere can no longer be tolerated.
There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires giving up no freedoms,
Except the freedom to act irresponsibly!
Klaatu

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke 1729-1797

If our forefathers were alive today they would lay siege to DC. They would tar and feather all the politicians and then hang them right on the steps of the capitol buildings. They would leave them there for all to see what happens to those flim flam man politicians that corkscrew Americans.

Would you vote for me to be the President?

Answer 2

They pretty much have their own agendas. It may "look" like they are acting on behalf of their constituents sometimes, but that's just because something in the legislation that they are pushing through is helping their own personal interest, or that they could really care less. The good thing is that the american public can apply pressure when needed to get something pushed through. This has to be done pretty much as a whole though. Example: Notice the high gas prices right? Do you see the president or congress really rushing to change our reliance on fossil fuels? (You "do" see alot of posturing and promises, but no real action.)
Reason: Look at the sales of big SUV's and other gas hogs. They are still at an all time high. It's only when the public changes it's opinion or spending in a major way, that it affects our government. Till then it's business as usual.

Answer 3

There's no such thing as an honest politician in any country, even America.

I don't think anyone in our country believes the politicians here are honest. It's just not in the nature of politicians. They get into politics to further the causes of their businesses and their rich friends. They get elected because they have enough rich friends to finance a campaign. That's the way it works in every country. America is not different in that respect.

What is different in America is that we have a system of checks and balances in place to keep individual politiicians from getting too much power. Each branch of our government is policed by another branch, and with politicians all trying to take each other out to get each other's jobs, they tend to do a decent job of keeping each other in check. What would be dangerous would be if they were all part of the same party, as in a dictatorship. Every politician would then be working toward common goals. This would make them much, much more efficient in getting things down, the problem is, it creates a situation where noone is there to make sure they aren't getting too greedy and too dishonest. There are no checks and balances.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Answer 4

Honest - NO
Deceitful - Yes
Greedy - Yes
Do they perform on my behalf - No
Do they perform on behalf of their own greedy selves - Yes

Having said all of that let me add a few things. #1 - We need term limits to reduce the pork barrel politics. #2 - The lawmakers should be paid for days worked. Have you ever checked the voting record of your representatives to see how many votes they have missed? #3 - The excuse that "Our forefathers never envisioned" should be outlawed. Our forefathers never envisioned this computer I am using. But should we do away with it? #4 - Everything is bad in our system ?? No !! Let me finish by saying that I have lived under Kings, Dictators, and quasi Democracies. Yes, we have problems with our system in the United States and there is a lot of things that could be better. However, using my own personal experiences, we, in the United States of America still have the best system going. Please become more active, get out to vote, influence your friends and neighbors to participate. There are leterally millions of people whom just wish they could participate in the conversation we are having. Don't fight the system...Help fix it......And yes, Just let me add, I am a native TEXAN.

Answer 5

Everyone seems to think our form of government is a democracy. It isn't. It's a representative form of government, where we elect the person we feel will speak for our needs in government. It's worked well for a good many years now, and it seems like the rest of the world is trying to get here due to the freedom it offers. There is a system of checks and balances in place to make sure that no part of the government can become dictator, and that the feeling of the minority are well represented also.

Answer 6

I think lawmakers in Washington including our president is very deceitful, greedy and much more. I think a lot (not everyone) of these so called lawmakers will put our country at harm for their own political and financial benefits.

Answer 7

People who run for office start out at the local level as basically honest, trying to serve the public.

Then, to get elected to higher office, they have to make deals with those who have the money, just to generate enough publicity to get themselves elected. They justify this to themselves by telling themselves that they will still be able to do more good than harm, if they just perform a couple of little favors.

By the time they get to the national level, they have sold so much of their soul that they have none left for the rest of us. Getting re-elected used to be the means of doing good, now it has become an end in itself.

Here's a metaphor to help you understand. Suppose you saw a perfect rose growing at the top of a giant mountain of manure. By the time you climbed up to reach it, you've lost your sense of smell.

Answer 8

i am american and i beleive 90% of the lawmakers are crooked, and yea they are greedy and work to make themselves richer, they dont do jack S H I T to help the people. also we are sopsed to be a free country but we have more laws than most other countries in the world. by the way where are you from?

Answer 9

Many, if not most of them are greedy rotten liars that are without a doubt fulfilling their personal agendas, and putting the screws to the honest hard working way over taxed US citizens, and the so-called democracy system is now the corrupt commie, dictator, and tin god system:(

Answer 10

Yes,I think they're honest,to a point. But you have to keep in mind that even though they have different "Watch Dog" organizations keeping their eyes on them,they must keep some info from the general public in the name of National Security.

Answer 11

I think for the most part people do the right thing. There are those few with their own agenda that make it bad for the rest. I would love to see this President and future Presidents have the line item veto authority. That would clean up a lot mess.