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Since we have so many great minds here, able to solve the problems of the world and all, what say we put our noggins together and come up with the wording for a new Amendment to drain the swamp of big money corruption in Washington DC?
We know that Citizens United greatly expanded the amount of big money being thrown at our government by the rich to buy influence.
A lot of that money has had the desired result.
The rich are getting a lot richer, taking almost all the wealth generated by amazing gains in productivity in recent decades, as workers are getting shoved out of good well-paying jobs and downgraded to lower paying work with fewer or no benefits. Working doesn't pay as much as investing big money, and it's taxed at a higher rate. The rich get richer, the rest find it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.
Where's the shared prosperity?
Clearly, our government is not doing a very good job of Promoting The General Welfare.
What can we do?
Well, if enough of us want to, we can amend the Constitution to make that illegal.
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Let's see if we can write as few words as possible, make it succinct, that will accomplish the desired goal but be simple enough that enough Americans will agree it should be part of our Constitution.
We figure we know everything about our country, right? So this should be a piece of cake for us know-it-alls.
Here we sit, wasting time, and we could be putting our minds together and doing something for our nation. We have the perfect tool with this chat room. All we have to do is put our minds together.
OK? OK. Good. Let's get started.
First we need to jot down just what it is we are trying to accomplish. So we need to brainstorm about what this document should do.
Then, after we work that out, we can boil it down to the actual wording.
Then we send it out to the world, hope it goes viral, force our government(s) to ratify it, and we drain the swamp.
Long shot, I know, but you don't know what you can do until you try. One thing is for sure. It won't happen if we don't try.
This is not intended to be an arguing thread. It's a brainstorming thread. So how about drop your guard, accept that each participant really wants a better America, and let's just talk this out, OK?
Good. Alright. Let's work together:
Since we have so many great minds here, able to solve the problems of the world and all, what say we put our noggins together and come up with the wording for a new Amendment to drain the swamp of big money corruption in Washington DC?
We know that Citizens United greatly expanded the amount of big money being thrown at our government by the rich to buy influence.
A lot of that money has had the desired result.
The rich are getting a lot richer, taking almost all the wealth generated by amazing gains in productivity in recent decades, as workers are getting shoved out of good well-paying jobs and downgraded to lower paying work with fewer or no benefits. Working doesn't pay as much as investing big money, and it's taxed at a higher rate. The rich get richer, the rest find it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.
Where's the shared prosperity?
Clearly, our government is not doing a very good job of Promoting The General Welfare.
What can we do?
Well, if enough of us want to, we can amend the Constitution to make that illegal.
PoliTalker anti-troll thread thief disclaimer: If this thread is stolen, plagiarized, will the thief have the nerve to use the entire OP, word for word? Including this disclaimer? If you want my take on it, you'll have to post to this original PoliTalker thread. I refuse to be an enabler for online bullies, so I won't post to a stolen thread. I won't even read it. If you don't see me, PoliTalker, posting in this thread check the author. This might be a hijacked thread, not the original.
Let's see if we can write as few words as possible, make it succinct, that will accomplish the desired goal but be simple enough that enough Americans will agree it should be part of our Constitution.
We figure we know everything about our country, right? So this should be a piece of cake for us know-it-alls.
Here we sit, wasting time, and we could be putting our minds together and doing something for our nation. We have the perfect tool with this chat room. All we have to do is put our minds together.
OK? OK. Good. Let's get started.
First we need to jot down just what it is we are trying to accomplish. So we need to brainstorm about what this document should do.
Then, after we work that out, we can boil it down to the actual wording.
Then we send it out to the world, hope it goes viral, force our government(s) to ratify it, and we drain the swamp.
Long shot, I know, but you don't know what you can do until you try. One thing is for sure. It won't happen if we don't try.
This is not intended to be an arguing thread. It's a brainstorming thread. So how about drop your guard, accept that each participant really wants a better America, and let's just talk this out, OK?
Good. Alright. Let's work together: