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We seem to have lost the capability in this country, perhaps in this world, of rewarding true leadership. It just doesn't seem to blossom through the Darwinism of politics.

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Sir; ..God bless you and your enlarged heart; but if the government does not govern, and the representatives do as they please against the expressed wishes of their constituents they deserved to be replaced. This would never happen if we had one representative for every thirty thousand. This is the result of democracy denied. What America will find out is that this is a drowning man's straw that will not support him, or save the nation. As long as these people think they can throw our future money at today's problems our problems will grow so they can avoid reality... This is the end. They think the beast has been saved. Sorrrry! Ding dong the witch is dead. The government is dead; because when this depression sinks in, and this government shows the people their empty pockets the people will tear them apart. Are you ready for marshall law? Are you ready for no health care, and no social security? Are we going to do war on the cheap, or resort to nuclear weapons because we just cannot afford to field an army? Now we are bankrupt. That is the key to revolution. That is the missing piece. Do you believe that any one we have freed of debt will invest in our society without great security, and without knowing how far we will sink into depression? Dream on... The government has bought bad debt and a bill of goods. We will never see the wealth that represents. If they do not find the courage to tax the rich and control their behavior we have to begin again. This is not just government for the rich, and government of the poor. We are not in this to be slaves while enterprise runs free. We will be free together, or we are done!!!...Thanks...Sweeney

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Re: Masako;...Sir, these idiots think they are showing leadership going against the sense of the people. They ought to follow if they cannot lead. They have bound themselves closer than could ever be believed to capitalism, so they deserve to go down forever with capital. Government is instituted for good, and that good must of necessity require vision, to anticipate problems while they are yet on the horizon. People blinded by their ideals, in particular, that good will come from unbound capitalism when pain can be seen throughout the country from capitalism is not vision, but living in a dream. They dream a nightmare the people cannot escape. Now we must escape. Form new relationships. Begin to write a new constitution. Revolution goes better with an idea of the good, and a common goal...Best to ya...Thanks...Sweeney

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Mr. Shields;...I want to thank you for shining a light on the cheap shot Mrs. Palin took at Mr. Biden during the debate. To ask a man for informality so you can deliver a smarty pants seeming zinger later is cheap on cheap. It is our formality that allows hard conversations because formality reminds us that we have a relationship even when we would like to fall out. We are all equal here, and few are as equal as myself. I do not feel much bound to a form of relationship that does not serve the relationship. I would remind presidents and popes that no matter how they exhalt themselves and are respected by others that just between you and me, relationships have got to feed us both. I don't respect governors and senators because they have power because I know where that power comes from. I respect officials of government because of the citizens they represent. No one has elected me to anything, and if they did I would put it all on them, and say that having an elected representative does not mean they need not govern themselves. The essential decission of ones life cannot be delegated, and should not. If we all bear the mistakes of government we all should choose, as well as consent....So,  I have made it a point to shake hands and introduce myself to elected officials where ever they may be found because i have no other means so easily at hand to show respect to my fellow citizens. More people voted for Mr. Biden than are even in Alaska. But we are just folks here, and should seek informality so that we can see the human side of the problems we face. But to ask for informality to safely deliver a prearranged hurt which was an abuse of the  electors in fact, is wrong.  The dart fell flat. Nothing can save Mrs. Palin from the ignorance she has cultivated and demonstrated. But, remembering the constant savaging of the Clintons, when enough was enough, and only enough was deserved, it is clear that these republicans have no respect for the people, It is the people they insult, and the people they call stupid. It needs to change. The people are right, and the object is not to go around them or abuse them if you think they are wrong; but to educate them. If a leader is not a teacher he, or she is no leader. They must know before we can go. And they should go where the people push.Every head is better than one, and you can elect a person to office, but no one can vote them intelligence or education.....Thanks...Sweeney

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Re: herbert davis;...Sir, I don't want to speak for Mr. Shields. Speaking for myself, I would expect an uptick because it will capitalize industry and that always creates some jobs. What really creates jobs is consumers. Since high profits and high interest combined with a real estate market, over valued and then robbed of its value by speculation leaves the vast majority of the population  without wealth, which they could lever into credit, they cannot be conumers without consuming debt. They have no equity. There is no capital gain for them. And if they do not have jobs, or if their jobs pay too little to support their lives they will consume only necessites, and not be a real market for new technology.. While this is happening to them, the government will find it cannot tax property, as in housing realestate, or wages, which are reduced. If it borrows to buy worthless debt it loses credibility. If it prints more money to cover loss of revenue it fires inflation. It is in the same place as the banks in that it is killing the golden goose. There is not enough wealth or income in the working class to support the  government or Wall Street let alone both. The fundamental production of real values is not totally missing, but it is not enough to support the rich or a government that serves them.... Look at farming. From its earliest days in this country the farmer has worked himself into an early grave while middlemen and banks have reaped the value. During the dust bowl great swathes of the population were dispossessed. It is happening while we speak, but unlike the family farmer, the  corporate farm can charge what the market will bear. There is no middle man, or farmer; but wage workers and bankers controlling your next meal. What if your money becomes worthless? Your money is good for your debts, but if we begin to carry dollars around in laundry baskets no one need take them even if you have amillion.  There has to be some real value behind your money for your money to mean anything. If the government will not tax wealth it will be poor. It cannot support itself with debt. Neither can we support ourselves with debt. We all need to be able to produce real values and keep enough for our own good. What has happened is that the government has bankrupted itself to save its bankers from bankruptcy. Now they are both bankrupt. ..  We are far worse off than during the great depression. For one thing we should be able to look back and see the past behind us. It is terrible to look forward to the country's past. Obviously our leaders cannot tell forward from reverse....Thanks....Sweeney

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Now...explain how this bailout/rescue can be judged a success or failure! What criteria and what timeline? When the S&L's were bailed out there was some reform with the bailout...this seems like money to a blackmailer...why wouldn't they just keep wanting more?

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Mark-One of the things that scares me about the Mckain ticket is having Sarah Six-Pack in the white house-I can visualize her winking at some one like N.Sarcozie(sp?) and offering him a Bud Light or ther Germa Chanclior and then belching in her face-such a great international coup-GA