Re: Wal-Mart and Wages?

From: Johnny 5 (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 02:54:09 GMT

The Trucker <mikcob@verizon.net> wrote in
news:ce8f0b01oov@news3.newsguy.com:

> Johnny 5 wrote:
> His usual disorganized illogical ranting trash (see below). I
> do
> not normally top post, but in this case I will make an exception. In
> the blow by blow below we see Johnny ranting about corruption and lack
> of law enforcement and the like.

Based on my real world experience with many government officials and real
people.

  We also see THAT Johnny's proposed
> solution to the problem is _term_limits_.

I feel the sherriff in the old town being in that position of power for
over 20 years now has allowed him to form connections with corrupt
individuals, to place people into positions of power that aid in his
corruption, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer that covers the
area that sheriff is in agrees, but said he simply does not have enough
agents to find and fix all the corruption and even when presented the hard
evidence he needed from citizens - he said that everyone breaks the law,
even city leaders, and if we put them in jail, the town would descend into
anarchy. What is the use of a law that is not enforced for all? It's only
use can be to pick and choose who gets charged with that law - if the law
is not universal for us all - what then?

  He is, of course, quite
> wrong and is merely seeking even more populism than we currently
> experience.

I just wanted the city leaders to be honest, and follow the laws, and if
the laws can't be enforced as the GBI man said, then why even have the
laws? It seems if I broke those laws, I would be punished, because I was
not a city official and removing me from society would not impair city
gubbment, but because they are in positions of power, removing them would
create anarchy, so run for city offices, that gives you a get out of jail
free card if you break the law in my old city.

> On current day populism -- http://GreaterVoice.org/econ/The_Mob.php
>
> The large political parties and most of the smaller one's LOVE
> populism in its current form; a continuing deluge of party serving and
> status quo serving disinformation disguised as network news. There
> are stalwarts in the congress that can withstand populism for various
> reasons. Some of these reasons are bad but some may be quite good.
> Consider that if a representative is doing a very good job
> representing the constituency then there is little reason to replace
> that representative. While we are wanting for something to limit the
> power of incumbency, term limits would do naught but to increase the
> power of special interest money in selecting representatives. What is
> needed is a system that decreases the power of incumbency by allowing
> the rank and file to challenge the incumbent _without_ the need for
> special interest funding. The proper solution is to dramatically
> decrease the size of the constituencies in the US House of
> Representatives such that people can run for office on their own
> nickle. A candidate can go door to door if necessary to challenge a
> corrupt and non-Representative incumbent. Challengers willing to
> discuss the real issues of concern to the common people cannot be
> silenced by a media blitz in the way they currently are. Debate of
> issues cannot be stifled at this low level and the best candidate can
> easily be selected. And it is this debate that informs and enlightens
> the people.
>
> http://greatehttp://greatervoice.org/extend.php

I am sorry Trucker, you cannot possibly KNOW all the corruption and closed
room deals going on with people, the longer they are in power, the stronger
these connections can become. Creating anarchy in the city would break
these old connections of power.

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