yhckrfan

>You seem to have missed my point. >Which is that you're doing nothing. >And saying nothing.

Actually I do do things, I do write and air my grievances with my local representative(s). I do expect them to be accountable.

>Invoking the Secret Words of Power is not actually doing any more than waving a magic wand.

Neither is doing nothing.

>However, the funding of political campaigns through lobbying is an above board bribery that effectively debt the government official to their sposors... which are increasingly large corporations with wealthy owners.

Agreed there are problems with the political environment in regards to funding and lobbying. However if we continue to fail over to the concept that this is all about rich people being the boogeyman in these situations then we will always continue to deflect responsibility from the government.

Blame or focus on the rich, diverts responsibility from the government to fulfil it's duties. In fact it continues to allow a government to do such, because people are looking the other way.

What I am suggesting is the money is probably there to allow such programs to continue, if you divert funding from other non-critical areas.

> Government isn't an isolated entity in society it represents segments of a society. And usually that is the rich and or powerful.

I do believe the rich and powerful do have a leash around many governments, and so do the average person as that is how the government is often voted in by appeasing by populist policy.

However I doubt the rich and powerful have a requirement to cut food stamps. Again this isn't a rich man driving policy it is a government deciding where funding is going.

Accountability would be a start.

Note: The US is a good country overall so the following may sound like anti US rhetoric but it isn't meant that way. Even in my country I am seeing similar things.

>Last year, the richest 10% got 50% of all income/wealth.

I think it is an easy fall back to make comparisons between the rich and poor, but that isn't the problem here. It is the government.

How much does the US government funnel into programs to feed the war machine, or spy on their own people. This isn't a rich vs poor situation, it is a government vs the people situation, there is money there but it is being diverted into other programs. More tax = more bureaucracy + more waste + same problems, when a government is not effective or efficient.