By cyrena, October 19 at 10:12 pm #

Thanks and howdy. This is why the government was set up with a set of rules called the constitution for the instructions. Amazing piece of mental handy work those founding fathers went through to craft such a thing to allow all people to live in some kind of peace and harmony for what was even then a large bunch of people that were slobbering at the mouth to get over here to rape this country. At least some of them wanted a sense of decorum.  A good source of read is John Meacham’s ‘American Gospel’ which describes the WASP’s real point of settling this new land; lay claim to any and all the natural resources through the religious aspect of settling here.
So with that said, I now have started looking on this as why the constitution was drafted as it was. There must have been at the time the equal of corporate elitism that wanted it all and did not want any interference(read as unfettered, open, unregulated, etc…..) in the plundering. Those few astute men must have had a conscience to want to protect what was the infancy of our government. And with the evidence of the british empire’s behavior in their other ‘crown jewels’ of its middle and far eastern empires on their minds, I can only believe that was what our founding fathers were setting up to protect; what they were taking from the indigenous people from the abuses of a corporate world of the time against their money lust. Elitism did not start there by any means but those guys putting the foundation of our government knew about what was capable of and by them and tried to put a leash on them.
But the worm(currently think of the neocon’s think tanks) was in the works and I guess that as long as it took to reach this point is a lesson in tenacity and the failure of eternal vigilance.

By samosamo, October 17 at 10:22 am #

The senate and house seats up for election are most likely more important than the presidency. This is where the real balance of government is that can execute its real constitutional authority IF it chooses to do so.

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Bingo Samosamo. I wish more people were as aware of this very critical point. The Senate and House seats ARE more important than the presidency. It’s been my point all along.

If in fact we want to get back to the general idea of a Constitution, the Congress has to be on board with US, (not the corps) and we need a president that can work with that Congress.

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The senate and house seats up for election are most likely more important than the presidency. This is where the real balance of government is that can execute its real constitutional authority IF it chooses to do so.
And what better poster child of personal, political and economic gain from an elected official than this smith person. Are there any of the 7 sins this class act of crap has not possessed and nutured in his ‘trusted’ position the people put him in? I doubt my senators and representative enough to pull the plug against all 3 in november as they are not part of the small group of elected persons that are trying their best to overcome the last 3 decades of pure crap for government, hell, make that the last 180 years.

Also one of Gordon’s problems is the hiring of illegals in his food plant. He of course shifts the blame on to others, one being his wife who is the CEO.
David you forgot to mention the one plus million dollars that Smith paid for some golf clubs. He really knows how to stimulate the economy.
Than there is the small matter of his food plant getting caught in dumping pollutants in the creek that runs along the property. Some poor illegal gets the blame on that one also.