Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe Policy Ideas

During the last two presidential elections, we've witnessed what may about to staggering voter fraud. State governments, prompted by a certain national political party, have been allegedly turning away voters for all sorts of reasons, allegedly because these would-be voters displayed too much melanin.

We should have as many people vote as possible. This is a democratic republic, right? So, why don't we make state responsible for getting out the vote? Why not give them a little incentive?

Here's what I suggest: we tie federal spending to state voter turnout in federal elections. It'd work like this: in the next election, figure out which state had the highest percentage turnout of its registered voters. In my hypothetical world, it's Vermont. Vermont has 75% of its voters come out and vote. Vermont then gets 100% of what its entitled to get from the federal government in (pick your poison) highway funding, educational funding, etc. So, 75% is our top-tier goal. Let's say Mississippi rolls in next-best at 73%. Well, let's divide 73 by 75 and say that's the percentage that Mississippi can receive out of funds it would otherwise be entitled to, or 97.3%. A state in the 40%-range would get around half of funds it would otherwise be entitled to.

I want the vote, and I want the states to have an incentive to get things done. The good thing about this system? It resets every two years. Your state can jump way up if it gets its act together.

This is a pretty wild idea. Thoughts?

My Greatest Fear

There is apparently a book out that was just released on paperback called Armed Madhouse By Greg Palast. The link is a book review by Mark Groubert on C&L and it brings to the forefront my biggest fear in the coming year.

The line that works best for me is the following:

Anti-conspiracy theorists in the media kept demanding a ‘smoking gun’. There is no smoking gun – just thousands of spent rounds of ammunition.

The numbers don't lie, the Democrats won the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections. Both times the vote was stolen by the Republican Party, then I'm sure they saw it as doing what was best for America. Perhaps it was even a vision by God that told you to lead America to providence.

It frightens the hell out of me that this next election could also be stolen and those in power in the Democratic party will do nothing to stop it. I think Hunter must have saw some of this coming, it very well be the reason he left us, he couldn't stand the bullshit anymore and he was too old to fight it.

This country has been hi-jacked by a power that has been unseen by most people, but that is because they are blind. One merely has to open his eyes and see the corruption and hypocrisy going on inside this beltway. From far away folks merely shrug their shoulders and tell themselves that this is merely the way things work. People blindly follow what they are told because we have become a country too lazy to think anymore.

Think about it, a recent study just showed a third of American's still believe that Sadaam was directly involved with the terror attacks on 9/11. This has been disproved time and time again to the point where even the White House admits there was no connection. Yet the Republican Propaganda Network still says it so folks still believe. You won't find it surprising to also know that 40% of Republicans polled believed that very lie. How sad is it that people can't even listen and hear the truth anymore?

We are getting dangerously close to Big Brother, Escape From LA, or any other dystopia story you know of. JFK once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." How far off are we from that very point? How much more are the people of America willing to stand as corporations and political machines rape and murder this great nation? People didn't even blink an eye when their civil liberties were taken away, why should they care if their votes are outsourced to the highest bider.

Nothing terrifies me and saddens me then this possibility. I can only hope that the powers of justice, of right and integrity can overcome this blight that has seemingly taken hold of our country. A country whose past isn't perfect as we were taught, we are not the sparkling ivory tower they would have you believe. Our hands are covered in blood over what we have done over the centuries. It seems every generation we realize this, but we seem to have forgotten. We are a great nation, we are the land of opportunity, and we must take it back from the barons who attempt to steal it away from us as if this was a child's game.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. -HST

Always Willing To Go Lower

Ah, the RNC is once again up to their old tricks.

What 83 year-old William Sidwell of Queen City, Missouri found in his mailbox last week scared him. It was a letter from the Republican National Committee, but it seemed to bear grave news: "Our records show that you registered as a member of our Party in Schuyler County, MO," the letter said. "But a recent audit of your Party affiliation turned up some irregularities."

Audit? Irregularities? Was he in trouble? Were they threatening him? Sidwell went immediately to his ask his son, Dennis, a licensed public accountant, for advice. You can see the letter, and the accompanying "Voter Registration Verification and Audit Form," right here. Particularly puzzling to the both of them, Dennis told me, is that his father is a life-long Democrat.

The letter, it turns out, is just a misleading pitch for a contribution to the RNC -- one of the "irregularities" cited in the letter is that "I cannot find a record of you taking a single action in support of the Republican Party -- not locally, not nationally!" A contribution, the letter suggests, would help set the record straight.

Doesn't it just warn your inside knowing that the GOP has an outreach program for the elderly? Especially those who have been life long Democrats? This is truly stepping across the aisle in a motion of bi-partisanship.