CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION: CAUSE, CURE & EFFECT
As a political institution in its present form, Congress is irreparably
corrupt. That corruption is based on the pay-off. That bribery insures
the bribe giver special access to the trillions of dollars located
in the U.S. Treasury. In this existing condition, the bribe giver
pays a federal legislator tens, or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is called campaign financing. The bribe giver writes a legislative
bill or amendment that financially benefits the bribe-giver, and
orders the bribed federal legislator to submit the legislative bill
or amendment for passage into law. The federal legislators convene
together sharing their ordered legislative duties from their bribe-givers,
and make arrangements so that most will vote for each other’s
amendments and bills to accommodate all the bribe-givers, and relieve
themselves of their bribed duties.
In
Washington, D.C., individual and corporate interests compete with
the general citizenry to influence our Congress. On K Street, thousands
of their employees on thousands of phone lines ceaselessly call
legislators and their constituents, seeking to persuade them to
the political objective of their individual and corporate sponsors.
Members of Congress have become servants to these individual and
corporate sponsors.
The
economic consequence to this organized bribery of Congress by individual
and corporate interests is the bankrupting of our cities across
the country. A strong public education system is vital to a democracy.
Our public libraries and our public school systems are under attack.
Public libraries and school districts are suffering economic crisis.
Library operating hours and qualified library staff have been reduced,
while after-school programs, including free transportation to and
from these libraries have been cancelled. School boards grapple
with budgetary crises facing their districts. Sacrifices are being
demanded in all basic services. Teachers, having foregone cost of
living increases for years, and having never been paid for the overtime
hours necessary to perform their avocations, are refusing to handout
or collect homework, or voluntarily work after school events. Ill
will pervades both school board and library board meetings, as everyone
blames everyone else. Many school districts are insolvent, and are
being remanded to state control. Privatization of school districts
is a corporate solution. Our health care system is equally bankrupt.
Judged by the standards of modern industrial nations, we are near
the bottom of the barrel. We rank last in infant mortality. We are
near the bottom in life expectancy and general health, and have
the worst health care system per dollars spent.
Meanwhile the products of the legal drug corporations, pharmaceutical,
tobacco, alcohol, and sugar, kill about 1,000,000 Americans a year.
The illegal drugs, cocaine, opium, heroin, and psychedelics kill
about 6,000 a year. Marijuana kills no one, but is beneficial for
glaucoma and aids patients. 786,545 (42%) of the 1,900,000 Americans
arrested in 2005 for illegal drug possession, were arrested for
marijuana violations. Two-thirds of women in federal prison are
non-violent drug offenders. The Federal War on Drugs is a morally
bankrupt policy. Its continued existence is directly attributable
to the individual and corporate bribery of Congress.
The
source of these social problems are the economic mismanagement of
U.S. Treasury revenues by our corrupted Congress. These congressional
representatives have misappropriated our tax dollars to their individual
and corporate campaign financiers. They have enriched themselves
by accepting bribes from their individual and corporate paymasters,
who are infected with the disease of greed. This disease has sickened
our society. Enacting a Constitutional amendment by national vote
is the medicine that will eradicate this cancerous despotism; it
will heal our nation.
Our
system for the election to, and service in our Congress, is corruptive
to the core. Once an election cycle has been completed, offices
occupied, campaign politics and puffery complete, Congressmen begin
positioning themselves for the next election cycle. Legislative
tomfoolery and stratification paralyze Congress, as individual and
corporate interests receive their return on investment, and public
affairs take a back seat to partisan machinations.
When
a Congress has grown so corrupt, it lacks the structure and character
to reform itself. It cannot be anything other than it has become;
corrupted to the core. If our American Republic is to survive, reforming
our Congress is a necessity. The sovereign, the American people
have the societal obligation to effect all reform necessary to save
our American Republic. The surgical tool for removing this cancerous
despotism is a National Convention. Our citizenry have the indefeasible right
to abolish any form of government it finds destructive to itself,
and establish such, as accords with its interest, disposition, and
happiness.
The
national Democratic and Republican party machineries, long ago corrupted,
are obligated to that corruption, and must, to sustain their power,
obligate our national treasury funds to those who have corrupted
it. Nothing is more dangerous than the influence of individual and
corporate interests on public affairs. The corruption of our national
Democratic and Republican parties and our Congress by individual
and corporate interests, has substantively altered our state, violating
the principals of our society and our social compact.
Our
national Democratic and Republican parties cannot provide the leadership,
nor the progressive legislation required to outlaw existing federal
elections campaign finance corruption. They must be disqualified.
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