10 thoughts on “Tier 5”

  1. It seems that my onslaught of emails to my Reps haven’t been enough.
    Barbara Lee, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi – be forewarned. Many more emails will be coming your way.
    Barbara Lee – Oakland’s unemployment stands at 18%. You should be ashamed in not addressing that!
    All of you, Lee, Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi – work for us!!!
    I know they, especially Boxer and Feinstein, who represent many millions of people vs. thousands represented by Max Baucus.
    But sheesh, have the ovaries to speak out and be counted, for crying out loud!!
    I’ve seen CRICKETS coming from the California side on jobs and unemployment!!

  3. Sorry – I didn’t finish the sentence…:

    I know they, especially Boxer and Feinstein, who represent many millions of people (vs. thousands represented by Max Baucus. Coward and a*hole as he is) and I know you’re busy beyond belief.
    YOU though, must know more than any how unemployment effects the people in your state. Well over 12%, in fact, it went UP in the last quarter. And that doesn’t even count the people who are either not eligible or have given up.
    Once this last extension expires for me, I’ll be one ‘counted as having given up’ apparently, eventhough I haven’t.
    Ugh – I get so mad at them!!

  4. Susie – do you think it does? If so, I will indeed do so.
    One of my hang-ups is that, say Max Baucus, that he represents less than a million people. The TOTAL population of his state is less than a million.
    Then look at say California or New York. 36 million and 19 million respectively.
    They all get two Senators – one Senator represents about 400K people, one Senator represents about 18 MILLION people.
    How’s that a ‘fair’ democracy????
    However much I pounce on the representatives of my state, how is it fair, really, since they have appr. 9 MILLION residents to deal with, each.
    Vs. Max Baucus who probably knows everyone in his state by name!
    That whole Senate system is so so wrong!!

  5. Actually, I’ll write my letters tonight.
    I will attach my resume to each and every one of those letters.
    Thanks – hang in.
    Are your ads bringing in at least some money??? I try and click your site as much as I can!!

  8. Jawbone – yes and no.
    I was talking about the ‘system as invented by the founders’, meaning Democracy. The way they designed the system was based on their current situation/state-hoods/population.
    That needs to be changed.
    I’m hoping/thinking if THAT’s changed, people have a true voice yet again.
    I’m thinking to change the Senate to how the House is arranged. Number of people per x-area.
    Yes, the ultra rich and ultra powerful will fight that to their deaths – the current set-up works really REALLY well for them.
    The thing they fear the most is PEOPLE. People, popular vote. Yes, that’s why they’re orchestrating this ‘Tea-Party’ business right now.
    I know all that.
    I just don’t know what to do about it.
    French Revolution? Guillotines?? Tempting….

  10. “The thing they fear the most is PEOPLE. People, popular vote. Yes, that’s why they’re orchestrating this ‘Tea-Party’ business right now.”

    A system of a straight popular vote would give the most populous states a disproportionate influence.

    What exactly makes you think that some other form of government would work less well for the rich? What we really need, what has always been required for effective government is an informed and politically active populace. If more people actually paid attention to the issues and voted, our government would be more responsive.

    “Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.” –Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1805.

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