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Originally Posted by CosmicTang
As to the person who suggested we vote and use free speech...you haven't been paying attention. The government is doing what it damn well wants regardless of what the people who pay the bills are screaming for. The people roundly said no to the bailouts and they were granted behind closed doors. They voiced their opinions on health care, and yet again were largely ignored. And the final insult may have been the Supreme Court granting corporations--possibly including foreign ones--the right to spend as much money as they want in campaigns which would determine elections of our representatives. I think it's plain they don't have the people in mind.
So the question becomes: when is it enough?
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Our system is not a Democracy. We are a Republic and out system is that of a Representative Democracy. We elect people to represent us and it is not their job or their duty to represent us by "polls". Every two years members of the House are up for re-election...every six years members of the Senate are up for re-election and every four years the Presidency is up for re-election. If the people do not like the way their Congressman...or Senator...or President represented them the people will not re-elect them. Elections are the time and way for the peoples voices to be heard...loud and clear. That is our system of government.