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February 5, 2008 at 11:00:41

Should Voters Go On Strike?

by chris rice Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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What is a national Vote Strike?

It is you withdrawing your consent to be governed by the inept & corrupt Republican & Democratic parties.

For more click: HowToVoteStrike

This web site www.votestrike.com was created for/by you, the voters (Republicans/Democrats/Red States/Blue States) because whichever party you belong to they have failed you.

We the people (the voters) find ourselves in a very difficult position. Local governments are forced to do the job of the federal government. From natural disaster relief, border security, rampant illegal immigration, food safety, inadequate bridges, dams & hiways, disease epidemic caused in part by our Farm bill, drug epidemic due in part to lax border security, mental health care crises, some local governments (16 states) are even combating global warming because the federal government isn't doing its job- under Republican or Democratic administations! The problems are endless, some states are facing a drinking water shortage, drop-outs & low education levels are problems that just keep right on giving. Causing a financial burden on local governments so that even local services have to be cut.

For more click: WarOnTheMiddleClass

VOTING out one party & replacing them with the other party has not worked in the Congress or the Senate. Democrats promising to clean up pork & earmarks were elected & yet last years (2007), spending bills contained 11,900 pork barrel projects. At a cost to tax-payers of over $20 billion. Now we’re being asked to choose between a Republican/Democrat as our next president.

For more click: OurFoundingFathers...

Don't be fooled again:

Candidates are forced to raise large sums of money each election. ( Obama's campaign reported raising a staggering $32 million in January, cash aplenty to advertise all through the nearly two dozen upcoming races from coast to coast — and contests beyond. Clinton's campaign reported raising $26.8 million from October through December, the most recent period that she reported.) What do corporate donors get for their money? They get to set our Energy policy, our Immigration policy, our Trade policies. Why else has there been no effort to secure our borders or lower our dependence on foreign oil since 9/11?

For more click: WarOnTheMiddleClass or WalletStrike

Democrats & Republicans from the president down are guilty of putting this nations security at risk. And for what? Cheap foreign labor. Sen. John McCain’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill was wrote by corporate lobbyist to subvert the Constitution & make legal what is now illegal. At a cost to this nations security. Crooks like these (Sen.s Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton both signed & still support this bill as well as the Z-Visa) should be ran out of town. Instead their running for president.

For more click: HowToSaveOurDemocracy/Republic

Both parties are promising change. We hear it every 4 years. But the truth is they have almost the same financial backers & there’s lobbyist bribing whichever party takes office (there's 35,000 lobbyist in Washington).

For more click: WalletStrike

We need REAL CHANGE! The kind of change that can only come from new parties & publicly funded elections. Because as long as Big Oil can write our Energy policy, we’ll always be dependent on foreign oil. As long as China can manipulate our Trade policies we’ll always have record Trade deficits. There is a reason why nothing gets fixed in Washington.

REAL CHANGE has to come from the bottom up.

For more click: HowToVoteStrike

Feel free to copy & distibute.

For more click: WarOnTheMiddleClass

Vote Strike does not support any candidates or political parties. Vote Strikes goals are: 1. end the two-party system. 2. end corporate control of our politicians by 3. creating multi-party elections that are publicly funded.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: realchange@votestrike.com

www.votestrike.com

I created a website www.votestrike.com for you the voters because whichever party you belong to they have failed you. The website has ambitious goals of how to end the two party system & the third party myth. Modeled after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Polish overthrow of the communist government & the Phillipines removal of Marcos. All accomplished without firing a shot. But we do not rely on the failed tactics of the past instead we use the election system & the very votes & voters this system relies upon. And the site also offers campaign funding sources- who's bought off your candidate? As well as your solutions to education, lobbyist, healthcare, illegal immigration, the war on terror, the war in Iraq, crime, drugs, pedophiles, taxes. And a link page with 1000 links to more on these topics. I'm here to ask you to check it out, it's free. And you can submit content. Thanks for your time, my name is chris.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation...

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Joan BrunwasserJoan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation...

to see more of bio, click on member name

the 900 pound gorilla

on top of the problems you cite, another biggie is that we have outsourced our elections to big, private, for-profit corporations that have taken away any possibility that We the People can observe or confirm the validity of our elections. For this, they have made billions of our tax dollars. Until we disengage from this corporate tyranny, it's impossible to have any faith at all that those in power were actually legitimately elected. How can we really know? Because they say everything is hunky dory? I don't know about you but that's just not good enough for me.

by Joan Brunwasser (138 articles, 3398 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 596 comments) on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 5:28:59 PM