Thread: CAN WE SAVE AMERICA!!!!

Presently, our country is facing a major crisis with illegal workers pouring across our borders at over a million per year (if you believe this estimate). A country that can no longer control their borders can not protect, maintain, and defend its own sovereignty and identity.

To allow foreigners to enter your country illegally and while they continue to hold alliance with their country of birth, means that the laws of the country they illegally entered will not be obeyed nor respected and only taken for granted.

We the People--the American voters hold the keys to bringing this border madness and overall polarization to an abrupt end merely by the power of one person-one vote. We have allowed the elitist politicians of both parties along with the wealthy corporatist to dictate to over 285 million citizens what is in our best interest; when in all actuality it is for their own political gain and corporate entitlements and greed.

The elitist are using an old formula called "Divide and Conquer" to maintain their political power and corporate status quo. The powerful elite have ensured that the voting citizens who earn an income of $15,000 to $150,000 are pitted against one another under a multitude of dividing “Wedge Issues."

The Elitist have successfully pitted the following wedge issues to divide and pre-occupy the working poor and middle class of both major parties to vote against their best interest; beginning with Reagan Economics and Corporate De-regulation to the passing of NAFTA, WTO and CAFTA (1980 – 2005).

Here are the 15 Major Political Wedge Issues confronting the working poor and middle class in America:

1. Conservatives vs. Liberals,
2. Religion vs. Separation of Church and State
3. Blacks vs. Whites
4. Welfare and Social programs vs. Corporate Welfare
5. Unions vs. Right to Work
6. Free trade vs. Fair trade,
7. Minimum wage vs. Living Wage,
8. Gay Marriage vs. Husband & Wife Union
9. Anti-Abortionist vs. Pro Choice
10. Pork Barrel Spending vs. Smaller Fed. Gov’t
11. Equitable Wealth Sharing vs. Corporate Oligarchy
12. Affirmative Action vs. Legacy Inheritance
13. American Middle Class vs. Corporate Outsourcing
14. Cheap Foreign Labor vs. America’s Working Poor
15. Democracy in the Work Place vs. Corporate Accountability and
Responsibility

Politics is passion. Politics is conflict. But our government exists to solve problems, not exploit them. Those who see wedge issues in every controversy are putting the selfish needs of their candidates and party before the needs of the nation. That’s not the kind of politics we need today. If we allow wedge issues to continue to dominate and polarize our political system; America will soon resemble a third world financical basket case just like Mexico!!!

When our elections are over, the passions stirred up by the wedge issues don’t just go away. On the most controversial issues, like abortion, they don’t even go dormant. How are we the voter ever going to solve our most difficult issues if our elected leaders keep purposefully radicalizing the electorate? How can we even start a rationale debate when the corporate owned media fills its air-time with shouting talking heads rather than people who might actually offer solutions?

When we were attacked on 911 we were not thinking in terms of how many Republicans or Democrats were killed in the towers, pentagon and in a vacant field in Pennsylvania; we just understood that America was under attack and over 3,000 of our citizens were killed and we came together as one nation. The current administration with their corporate entities have declared war on the working poor and the middle class of this country all in the name of maintaining political power and obscene corporate profits.

The only way to make sure our elected officials realize that they work on be-half of the American people is to start voting down the middle on the major Wedge Issues confronting our country. The working poor and middle class voters in both republican and democratic parties have been pandered to and taken for granted. Our elected officials of both parties have passed bills and laws that overwhelmingly benefit the corporations.

Starting with the permanent tax breaks for the richest 2%, and the new bankruptcy bill. The convoluted and complicated Medicare bill and the outsourcing of hi-tech and white collar jobs. We can ill afford to continue voting for our own personal ideological right and left issues.

We must find away to come together, find common ground and compromise on the 15 major Wedge Issues, in the form of a constitutional solidarity. We the People must return our country back to its rightful balance and allow the American Dream to once again become a reality for the working poor and the middle class.

america will never fully unify because the topics separating the people are heartfelt and moral topics. i find myself in the middle of the moral topics but to the right of economic and fiscal topics. i am a supporter of reaganomics

That's bad, M'Kay... ~Inky

how is it so bad? corporate oligarchy is created through heavy lobbying and payments. but the rich corporations create jobs. more corporate money means more job openings for the poor to actually get jobs instead of complaining about not having them. people cant have their jobs and complain about them too! it all comes back to education

Yes, there still is an American dream for immigrants and minorities to earn minimum wage. To them, that's EVERYTHING they ever dreamed of, yet only enough to still tap welfare, thus eliminating small business that can hardly compete.

small business can compete. grow a small business and give it to your son- it can still happen. what is happening in my region (E central GA) many entrepreneurs have grown small businesses (smile gas stations) and made a few million here and there (from others like restaurant owners, franchisements, etc.) and then sold the businesses to others to profit and support a family more easily. the american dream for immigrants takes more than work effort. the issue with mexians/latinos willing to work is not as big as the issue of their will to assimilate in america instead of using us for jobs, healthcare, education while sending money back home.

AB, all I can say is just wait until you go to college and graduate with a 4 year degree and embark upon your career working for Corporations who only care about the bottom line and ignores democracy in the work place.

The America you and your generation will inheiret will trully be a cut throat environment where only the well connected acheive their dreams and goals. Who knows what Americas future and economy will look like in 2010 or 2011 when you graduate college and seek employment in the corporate meat grinder. Stay in shape both mentally and physically b/c you are going to need it.

When I go to vote in 2006 and 2008, I'll be casting a vote for your future and my childrens future. I want you to have a fair and equitable chance in the 21st Century with the American dream before its too late. My son is 8 years younger than you, who knows he may work for you one day. I hope ever he works for, his boss and company will treat him with fairness and a chance to realize the american dream.

I will be in college for at least 6-8 years and get an MBA to go into the corporate world and clean up what I know is wrong there. I work for a corporation right now in a market that is in trouble for inflating stock value based on inventory losses for "out-of-date" inventory. Department stores may be the next Enron if we aren't careful. I will be one of the ethical and law-abiding businessmen in the future- a position that will be very difficult to attain, but rewarding once achieved. Best of luck to your son too

and we've jumped on average 130% a year. (3 years going) I've shown a profit the first two, which to be honest is not a good thing as far as taxes go, but it's a learning experience so I'm investing back into it. I've been in the business 22 years and smoke all the competetion on quality. I earn my keep honestly and my employees go to bat for me when the going gets tough. So, I'm not a trailer park reject narcissist that blames my woes on the man. I've worked for Wachovia Securities on the trading floor for three years and decided that stress is better self-imposed. The corporate industry grinds people up and spits em out. Defintly not a rewarding experience. So bottom line, I do see this administartion as a threat to my sfaety, not the Ooga Booga Terror threat that they try and shove down people's throats, but the threat of economic disaster. I have a few good corporate clients, yes, but they're on a bidding basis and are unpredictable, not to mention they want contracts for pennies. I believe in treating peole fairly, I don't see that in the corprate industry. My wife just had her job of 21 years cut from a major corporate conglomerate. Luckily she'll get 18 months severance, but we'll be responsible for Insurance for us and the kids. All because of those handshakes in the middle of the night. Luckily though, we've built this business up to the point that she'll go into sales full time for us and we'll get to offer our employees a better benefit package (all a write-off for the biz as well) We'll make it happen.. ~Inky

you seem to have a good handle on things inky. i appreciate you making it for yourself and being there for your family. things should be great with you knowing the business world and loopholes you can and cannot be a part of...