What are we going to do to change our government?

Question

Our country has become worst over the last fifty years. We need change now and only the people can change it, not politicans.

Answer 1

THEN MOVE!
Why do so many (and I'm talking about the far-left) hate this country? Tell me, what is wrong with it? I don't think there is that much wrong.
But the libs would have you think otherwise.
But hold on. If the libs and secular-progressives had their way, here is what this country would look like:
1. We would be totally secular. No one would be able to display a Christmas tree, say Merry Christmas, say "under God" in the pledge (even if it was optional and not mandatory), or display the 10 Commandmants near court rooms. But I guarantee you they'd let you display a Jewish or Muslim religious item. If not then they'd be discriminating. NOWHERE in our Constitution does it say Church and State must be separate, but the libs would have you believe otherwise.
2. Everyone would be entitled to everything. The term "work hard for your money" would fall out of use. The government would super-tax the rich (though the rich already pay the extreme vast majority of our taxes) and then hand out that money to everyone, mostly the "poor". Welfare would sky-rocket because even more people than we have to today would think, "Why work?". I think that was tried once or twice. Does the Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, Cuba, or Vietnam ring a bell? Yeah, they're all falling apart.
3. Schools would not be held accountable to the quality of learning of the students. As long as the school maintained a passing rate, its all good. Teachers are not held accountable for their own students.
4. We would lose all tax cuts. I don't know about you, but our economy going into the gutter right after Bush took office tells me it was going into the gutter before he took office. Now look at it. Went from near bottom to record highs. Hmm. Think about it.
5. The Patriot Act would be gone. Though some parts are questionable, I know, the vast majority of it legitimately helps this country. Before you scream about it... TRY READING IT! Its not so bad.
6. Our military would be pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Whether or not you agree about the reasons for the wars, you have to realize that is the battlefield for the war on terror. We are no longer fighting Iraqis in Iraq. We are fighting terrorists. I would rather fight them in Iraq, on someone elses soil, than in my front yard. Pull out the troops and you give the terrorists the opportunity to pick their battlefield. I don't want the field to be Houston, Texas.
7. We would have to ask permission to do anything. Since when has a nation with the power and influence of the USA had to ask to do anything in this world? The UN is a crock. The world OWES US for everything we have done for it. We've saved it from countless dictators. We've rescued it from the clutches of innumerable natural disasters. We've earned the right to do what we want, when we want. Regardless of what the UN may think.
I could go on, but my fingers are getting tired.
Think about it.
The United States of America IS NOT THAT BAD.

Answer 2

It is the people that need to change, but you forget they are all sitting comfortably in their warm homes, they may have gotten home from a GRUELING day of shopping, trying vehemently to decide on which material goodies to spend their paper, they will soon eat a big hot meal, AND THEN RETURN TO THEIR TELEVISION, CELL PHONE, OR LAPTOP. THEY ARE CONTENT. We will have crossed the point of no return before people decide that they care!

I believe that idealism is better than pessimism, especially when concerning my personal goals, which I have many; but regarding the fate of Americans, I have to be realistic and admit that things are regressing. Maybe we will wake up. We are sheep. And sleepy, too.

And it seems that there are no more Thomas Jerfferson's or Martin Luther King Jr.'s. We DESPERATELY need a revolution, but people are steady blinded by the Christo-fascists, and who knows if there will be one before it is too late. If you look at Sumeria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, or any great civilization, it is always their own power which becomes their end! Fine living creates indifference; for every positive there is a negative, and for every success there is a failure. Our nation experienced incredible success at the turn of the century, and now, with the concent of the people, our special interest groups and billion dollar corporate entities are leading us toward eventual failure.

Chinese people work much harder; their time is coming. I am not Chinese. I hope I am dead before it happens, because I was raised to be spoiled and may very well deserve many of the consequences that I have warned of...

The only time I was ever in shape was when I had an incredibly strict yet inspiring body conditioning teacher that lit a fire under my backside. It should suffice to say that I don't need to describe the current condition of my abdomen...

Answer 3

We can't do anything. The government makes the rules. They are now going against the constitution and are even thinking of revising it saying that it's an out dated constitution.
They even have people that have a job specifically to find the loopholes in the law. Back in the day you could get out of a speeding ticket if the cop was hiding by saying it was entrapment. Then they made a law to cancel that. If someone gets off a charge with a stipulation,They make a law up to negate that too. You are now concidered Guilty till proven innocent! Or they wouldn't be able to charge you with something and hold you till your court date.
I was found guilty of something I didn't do because the Judge was too lazy to think about it. It was just easier to put me in jail because i was there. And they are literally trying to put people in jail as much as they can. Why. MONEY MONEY MONEY. For instance. The jail near my house gets $130.00 per day per inmate that is in jail by the state or county. They then give you a set of crappy clothes, A cheap tooth brush. And any product that Bob Barker makes called maximum security. Those products totalled cost around 5 dollars. Then they feed you about ten dollars worth of food a day. and they charge you 1 to 10 dollars a day while incarcerated.
Now say there are 10,000 inmates in the jail. $130.00x10,000 + $7.00 what they charge you a day x 10,000. That's 1,300,000 a day +70,000a day. Multiply that by 365days in a year and you have a jail that is turning out 475,500,000 a year. But they still say they need more money.That's four hundred seventy five million five hundred thousand dollars a year!!!!!!!!!
It's freakin ludacris isn't it.
There is even a jail in Farmville Va called the Peidmont county jail where the Judge and the district attorney actually privately own the jail! And they pretty much try to refuse a bond for everyone. Why. It makes them freakin rich that's why! There is a 74 year old man in that jail that's been there for over 2 years for urinating on the side walk. And a mother of a 3 month old baby was sentenced to 2 yrs for stealing babyfood to feed her baby. 2 YRS! The government is not quite the democracy it used to be. Sure you can vote, But that in some cases can be fiddled with too. And all the new laws they are making are voted on by them not you! So what does that tell you? The government is getting too powerful and big headed. They're trying to take away our right to bear arms and make owning a gun illegal! They've already passed law in San Fransisco that it is illegal to own a fire arm.
Now your also require to take mandatory urinalasis or drug testing. Now granted It it wrong to work while on drugs but if you smoked a joint or marijuana ciggarretet on your day off 2 weeks ago it can prevent you from getting a job today. Why can that be? But you can get Drunk off you gourde at home and beat your kids and that's ok you can still get the job?

Answer 4

1) There is more than one government in the U.S. There is a federal government and there are 50 state governments. Do you want to change all of them? Do you want to just change the federal government? In the federal government, the only thing we can ever do is simply vote for different politicians than the ones we have now. The Constitution does not allow for popular rebellions against the federal government. "The people" have more power to make direct changes in the state governments.

2) I will never join with anybody's reform effort if the only thing they say that they want is that they want "change." That can mean anything. I want to know what changes you want to make. You say that the country has become worse over the last 50 years. So the change you want to make is return to glorious days of the past? What parts of the past were glorious? All of it?

Answer 5

We need to think very carefully before we vote. It is not enough to assume that one party is better-we need to investigate how the person votes, how intelligent he/she is, and whether or not the person has been involved in any scandals. I think that many groups of people (mainly the uneducated and ridiculously conservative religious right) blindly support the candidates that everyone else supports without really finding out what type of a leader that candidate is. If the American people had really taken their votes seriously, I strongly doubt that Bush could have ever been elected a second time.

Answer 6

Honestly the government really doesn't need to be changed, only the attitudes of the people who take part in it. A successful democracy requires a watchdog press, an educated populace, and honest candidates, all of which America is steadily losing.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The governemnt won't change the status quo. This is unlike what Jefferson said, every generation should have a revolution and change the government.

Answer 9

I guarantee you there will be a civil war and revolution here in America within the next 25 years.

Answer 10

Read the 2nd Ammendment of the Bill of Rights!