There is no left wing socialist democrat, just as the is no right wing conservative republican serving anywhere in our society. What there is however, are a pack of liars manipulating the masses to get elected to public office so they can get or stay rich and continue to control who gets the majority of the riches created on the backs of labor, the average American worker. It was labor American labor which created the greatest wealth the world has ever known resulting in the most unjust concentration of wealth and power, the world has ever witnessed. The hypocrisy of American style democracy, and the millions supporting the fraud. 

My plan for a new America. 

First -Anyone elected to public office or appointed to a high level governmental position will be required to divest of all their worldly possessions forever. In return, they will be paid either 2x their salary or 2x the national median income for life, upon completion of public service. Such a legal requirement of Politicians will insure that they are not all in it for the money. Money/personal greed will no longer rule the hearts and minds of politicians. Corruption of our elected officials will end. 

Second - Income tax structure will become progressively more aggressive to the point that, All income above $2,000,000 would be taxed at 100%, and I mean all income from all sources, including a stockholders share of corporate income.

Third - Eliminate corporate person hood and require all stockholders be personally responsible for the criminal conduct and financial obligations of the business. The tobacco settlement and Enron and Worldcom are all perfect examples of why corporate person hood needs to be eliminated. Corporations in America have been corrupted by the greed of its managers and Boards of Directors.

Fourth - Guys like Gates and Buffet should not be allowed to control their wealth from the grave through the establishment of Private Foundations, and all assets of all foundations in existence today should be nationalized for the public good and used for public purposes, because they where really created by government to allow rich people to avoid inheritance taxes. 

Fifth - Social Security taxes will be imposed on all income from all sources, for everyone.

Sixth - No Stock certificate can be purchased,held, or valued by any private or public pension plan or held for purposes of retirement that exceeds the "book value" -assets minus liabilities- of the "Corporation" issuing the stock.

Seventh - No public employee will receive health care paid for by the taxpayers which is not also provided to private legal citizens by there employer or other National Health Care Policy. 

Eighth - Illegal immigrants will have no right to any governmental paid assistance including education and hospitalization, and will be deported upon discovery.

Ninth - No public employee will receive a pension greater than that Guaranteed to private citizens under ERISA and the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.

Tenth - All education - including technical college, college and graduate level work will be free to all who can meet the challenge.

Lastly - Inheritance Taxes should be increased to 100% after a $5,000,000 exclusion for blood relatives.

All government is about who gets the money. Our government has done a real lousy job in its obligation to provide the legal frame work to create economic justice. 

There will never be peace without economic justice being the foundation upon which government is built. Greed is the foundation of America, which has been universally true for all governments throughout all of history.

   

Sorry Erik - you simply can't handle the truth. Don't feel bad you have a lot of company - Deny reality - Deny the truth - Deny that a bad Choice was made. Facts are facts. The facts say load and clear.

Bush is a War Criminal. He should pay with his life - clear and simple.

When Bush has been put to death then maybe the World can start over and see if "Nice " works to defeat pervasive human corruption.

You be nice and I'll be nice - sounds great.

Paul thanks for your courage in beating this drum!

Victor - that was great!

If 635 wise men were all going in the wrong would direction would you follow if you knew they were all wrong. 2004 Election proved that most would and did. 2006 was a different story. The election shocked both parties. 2008 will be an American Revolution.

Iraq is not a war - it is an occupation of another country by the Oil Industry led Chaney. The War on Terrorism can not be won. Anyone who can think should know that to be true. Economic justice is the only means to bring world peace. Nothing else will ever work.  

"Rule of law" can not and never will exist, because the law will always be subject to interpretation and enforcement by men of power and wealth. 

"Rule of Law" is just one more huge fraud that has been indoctrinated into the weak minds of your average citizen. Countless other examples exist like "under God" and freedom and liberty and justice and democracy and religious dogma and capitalism and life and happiness.

 Government has always been about who gets the money, "Rule of Law" only exists for those who can afford $1000 an hour lawyers, or the power to appoint Attorney Generals and Judges and Special Prosecutors. Corruption rules for all who care to stand witness to the truth.

Economic justice equals freedom. There can be no greater good without individual good first. Greater Good is the lie of all times.

I have to say that what you say is absolutely true. The "rule of law" does not appear to apply to some chosen and elite few, who seem to do as they want when they want. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice should be in jail - not just impeached. But further, that the Congress of the United States, both Democrats and Republicans, participated willingly in this fraud, consciously and callously playing on the fears and prejudices of their constituents to get their way with us. But even worse, the American people, properly informed by mass media or not, as usual gave little or no thought to the crime of waging an illegal war upon a country who had made no aggressive move towards them, as they have done on so many previous occasions. And like Vietnam, when the going got tough, only then did they get upset enough to vote the bastards out of office. They didn't get upset because they suddenly realised what a wrong their government had committed (and by proxy themselves). They didn't get upset because they lost too many of their sons and daughters to a criminal act of aggression. They didn't get pissed off because things went on too long and became a mess. No, far worse than that, the American people got pissed off because they found themselves LOSING. I'm angry with the US government and think its fundamental structure should be changed to idiot-proof it, removing the bicameral form of "representative democracy" and removing the nationally elected offices of President and Vice-President (who no longer have the interests of the people at heart but instead see themselves as empirial heads responsible to no one), replacing them with a Parlimentary form of government populated by locally elected and financed members and headed by a Prime Minister, and outlawing any form of armed forces that are any other than defensive in nature and capability. I'm angry with the rich and powerful of the United States who I regard as the greatest threat this world and its environment has ever faced, and should be stripped of their ill-gotten wealth and sent to prison where they have sent so many of our brothers and sisters of all races. Their multi-national corporations should be dismantled and laws passed to severely regulate their powers. But as for the people of the United States, it is in them I am most deeply ashamed and disgusted, and truly embarrassed to call myself an American. For without them, none of the above can ever happen, nor will it until it is too late. Until the American people wean themselves of these adolescent tendencies toward violence to settle scores (socially, nationally, and internationally), until they stop worshipping Hollywood and sports images of supheroes like Superman, Batman, Arnold Schwarznegger, Clint Eastwood and the like, until they stop seeing themselves as always good and everyone else as something a little less than human, of questionable motives and to be feared, until they rid themselves of this national hysteria and delusional paranoia, their government will continue to play them like violins, they will continue to run half-cocked into wars like the heroes they see themselves as, they will continue to blame the victims of their petty aggressions, they will continue to wonder why everyone else in the world hates them, and they will forever deny themselves the non-violent skills necessary to negotiate peaceful solutions to serious problems and the ability to put their money not into the military but where it would do the most good, into social programs that give true dignity and honor and freedom and support to those most in need - the trampled people of the world.

Americans ignored observed facts as the entire country stood witness. Living a distorted reality of spin and deception by the government and the media.  

Bush lied and everyone knows he lied. The sickness of our uncivil society lies in the constant mantra of "rule of law" that obviously does not  apply to the rich and powerful. Anyone who can think knows that corruption has taken over our society, at almost every level.

The hypocrisy of democracy.

Impeach Bush 

special convention s should not apply to war criminal such as Bush.. in, insight Mrs Pelosi, you could give him - Bush- a similar trial like the one Saddam Hussein received before sending him to the electric chair.

This lady wants to put the bastards behind bars as well. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112806O.shtml As for blaming al qaeda, you will note the propaganda machine being cranked up for this one. See my posting this morning on your Obama post for a more detailled account with a URL.