Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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POLITICS: States that give, states that get

Of the states that get more money than they give, 84% are Republican.
Of the states that give more money than they get, 78% are Democratic.
NOW who's redistributing wealth unfairly?
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Tags: economics, politics
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ysabetwordsmith

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

October 31 2008, 20:48:59 UTC 12 years ago

Maybe the government could be or should be the community's agent, but it mostly isn't like that. I think whenever the decisions start being made outside the area affected, that's a problem; like corporate decisions affecting all the local stores. Another problem is when the people making the decisions have too little in common with the people affected by the decisions. Our political system tends to take fairly ordinary people and turn them into politicians, because the system is designed so that politicking is almost the only way to accomplish anything. And politicians have so little in common with ordinary people, they make a lot of bad decisions. To change that, we'd have to gut the system, take out the parts that make that transformation -- and we'd have to somehow hold down the juggernaut while we did that. Not an easy task, no.

The sneaky cool thing about democracy, though, is that it's very susceptible to grassroots changes. It's possible to create a groundswell of people doing the same things locally, that add up to big national changes. *sigh* It's how the neocons very methodically and effectively took over the Republican Party in 20-30 years.

*ponder* I want my country back. But, you know? I want it to be a country that haikujaguar and stryck can live with too. Because they're smart folks, and I care about them, and if they're miserable or terrified then something somewhere is probably wrong. It may be in a place I don't see, but just because I don't agree with them on everything doesn't mean they're always wrong. We need liberals for speed and spark and thinking outside the box. We need conservatives for stamina and memory and ... well, because it sucks to carry 2000 marbles without a box!

I want OUR America back. The one in "This land is your land, this land is my land."
corivax

corivax

October 31 2008, 21:00:56 UTC 12 years ago

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?

I think we still live in the America that song was written of.