Porcine Politics

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Porcine Politics

I suppose I've ranted about this before (no doubt numerous times) but previously, the fate of our entire country has not been on the line, so it's likely worth mentioning again.

The way politics works in America inside the District of Corruption is that the nominally voter elected (but in reality corporate-controlled) house and senate can't do much of anything in a straight-forward and forthright manner.

If they were able to, they would not be voting of behemoth bailout bills, like the one passed last night 74-25 which was more than 400-pages in length. Remember, this started off as a three-pager which distilled to "Give us $700-billion - or more if we need it - and trust us to be honest and do good..."

The way DC politics works is this: Say you have a real piece of crap legislation like this bankster bailout scam and you want it to pass. Yet, it's so obviously a scam that no one in their right mind would dare pass it. So, how do youi pass it?

Simply throw in tax breaks and pork so that no one who's voting on it would be able to say "No!" In the latest bill, for example, there are some tax breaks. Enough to pay for the bill? Of course not, but enough to water down the string a bit.

If folks in America would like to clean up politics, there's a simple way to do it: Change the rules in CONgress so that a bill can have only one subject and one subject alone. That way, when a CONgressperson votes, it would be clear what they were voting on.

Not that I haven't said this before. You know that the so-called Patriot Act wasn't cobbled up in a few days - it was a control-the-populace bill that was no doubt sitting on a shelf somewhere as 'unpassable' until just the 'right' moment in the wake of a terrorist strike.