If You Really Think It Matters Which Party Controls the Senate, Answer These Questions

I made these comments in a previous post concerning our new Congress.

Here are the top three things I want to see happen, and please dear gawd don't let these just be dreams.

1.  required Voter ID for registering to vote as well as for actually voting.

2.  an open vote, meaning no party affiliation required and anybody can be placed on the ballot and/or you can write in a name, and NONE OF THE ABOVE, is a choice

3.  repeal of Citizen's United, PACs, or any other kind of financial donation to any candidate from any entity other than an individual registered voter, and not to exceed $5

I have other wishes, such as securing the border, how "appointees" like Czars, and Cabinet staff workers are made, and work days and hours and other benefits of Congressmen.

And today, Tyler Durden asked . . . 

If You Really Think It Matters Which Party Controls the Senate, Answer These Questions

So here are his questions, and my answers.

1. Will U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast change from being an incoherent pastiche of endless war and Imperial meddling?   

NO it won't.  The biggest problem with our foreign policy (besides our foreign policy itself) and the MidEast, is who we send over there to begin with.  In the past it was Rice and Clinton.  The MidEast powers that be, though cordial and polite, don't negotiate with women, because they don't see women as equals.  In fact they think we are chattel, whether American or Middle Eastern.  And based upon Kerry's results, they think he is a women too.

2. Will basic civil liberties be returned to the citizenry?

Our civil liberties are a joke to most law enforcement.  The average cop on the beat is unaware of what they are or care what they are.  Our federal agencies break the laws and rights contained in the  Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and then tell us to prove they were wrong.  You would be lucky to have an attorney or judge uphold them as well.  

3. Will the predatory, parasitic policies of the Federal Reserve that virtually everyone from the Wall Street Journal to what little remains of the authentic Left understands has greatly increased income and wealth inequality be reined in? 

The puppet masters in the Federal Reserve own your representatives.  Don't hold your breath for any changes here to be made by your "elected" puppets. 

4. Will the steaming pile of profiteering, corruption, waste, fraud and ineptitude that is Sickcare in the U.S. be truly reformed so its costs drop by 50% to match what every other developed democracy spends per person on universal healthcare? 

The repeal of Obamacare will not happen.  Big Medicine and Big Pharma own your representatives too.  There will be much talk but no action.  Costs will continue to rise and pills will be dispensed left and right and disease will spread and the powers that be will use it to spread fear worldwide and control the sheeple.  

5. Will the influence of Big Money be well and truly banned from politics? 

This was his answer and I can't improve upon it.  

If you answer yes, please pick up your tin-foil hat at the door.

6. Will the incentives in the Status Quo be reset to punish rapacious financialization and gaming the system and reward productive investment and labor? 

The Big Banks have no morals. Greed is the operating force here and I don't see anyone in Washington changing anything.  They yanked back all the power we had to stop their insider trading by revoking the Stock Act.  Labor unions payoff whomever is required to be dealt with. They are all in it for the money, too. 

7. Will anything be done to dismantle the Neofeudal Debt-Serfdom known as student loans? 

The DC crowd has no incentive to help out students with debt when they depend on that debt to service their machine.  They want students learning what they teach and paying them for that privilege.  Degrees for higher education are not worth the paper they are printed on.  

8. Will any prudent assessment be made of unaffordable weapons systems like the F-35 Lightning--$1.5 trillion and counting for aircraft that will soon be matched by drones that cost a fraction of the F-35's $200 million a piece price tag?  

The industrial war machine has no incentive what-so-ever, and neither do the pigs at their trough, to change this profitable system.  It's war, war, and more war. 

There is so much that needs to be changed, and we haven't even touched on immigration.  Sigh!!!!