RE: The Greatest Conspiracy Ever Perpetrated on the United States of America…. and No One Even Realizes It.
I question if government could be anything but corrupt because corruption has been intertwined for so many years. It is almost laughable that the government can obtain a patent for cannabis a plant that has grown on the earth for thousands of years.
https://steemit.com/cannabis/@marymg2014/us-government-patent-6-630-507-on-cannabis
And when you see an issue that drives you to write and call all 51 senators and only one responds and has the audacity to say "I do not know what I am talking about." This after being informed I practiced medicine for 20+ years. Yet a senator is so informed he feels he has the right to remove parental rights.
https://steemit.com/freedom/@marymg2014/pa-sb-217-one-vote-closer-to-a-loss-of-liberty-a-time-for-pennsylvanians-to-act
Is there really hope for government????
@marymg2014 this is exactly why I wrote this post. We can't write letters to anyone and expect results unless we bring large campaign donations. This is why I am trying to start a grass roots movement to add seats to the House to get back to the constitutional Ratio of 1:30,000. This isn't enlarging government (adding new departments and full time employees to "serve" us is); adding so many representatives that the special interests cannot have a logistical possibility of controlling elections is adding accountability to the house without the corruption of "donations".
Yes it's Counter Intuitive but that's how a proper society functions. Taxation.
Whether the communal funds/resources that help raise up the standard of living for the whole community is gathered by actual extortion, coercion, taxation or donation, the method doesn't matter as long as it's used for the benefit of the public.
It works better at the local community level where things can be done by donation benefitting "friends" as opposed to benefitting "outsiders" but it need not matter if the whole society is benefitted.
Most people's troubles with coercion is that they aren't part of the coercion team and turn into rebels against that which is good for the whole.
But make no mistake I am not in favor of redistribution of wealth, however payment for services rendered to the community by contractors is acceptable.
And yes I am referring to my own definition of increasing the standard of living through order and smart and careful usage of resources respecting individual rights codified in the Bill of Rights.
But the system has gotten out of balance and we see the politicians not paying any attention to the fact that we elect them because they represent so many people it makes it incredibly difficult to oust them in favor of a person who takes his que from his constituents rather than the pharmaceutical and other lobbyists.