I agree that our country needs to get back to ruling with an iron fist.

The difference, however, is that we, the people, need to start ruling our "leaders" with an iron fist...their fear mongering, self-aggrandizement, and selling off of our national treasures to the highest bidders needs to stop, and now.

It's time for the people to stop the elitists who have been running the show from making billions on our backs, our soldiers, and our natural resources...

Fish on...

Todd

This is a bit interesting to say the least. I have hard time follwing all of this stuff because it seems people talk in circles despite themselves. I think that a huge problem we face right now is that there is too much emotion involved in the running of this country. I know, our country is somewhat based on compassion. But right now what we need is someone to come in with the fact in mind that our country needs to be ruled with a hard fist. There has been far too much compassion afforded to the wrong people at the wrong time and that has been much to the detriment of our country. We need to worry about now. We need to worry about the problems we have facing us today. Like the fact that our country has one foot in the door of depression looking from the room of recession.

Too much is focused on the matters of race and gender. That is old business and should be on a back burner to the fact that we are destroying our infra structure from the inside out. We need a serious redirection on the path we are on. And I don't think that is going to happen by voting someone in because they are female, or black, or anything else for that matter. It would be nice to see a run for the presidency that was completely on paper. No pictures, no faces, no voices. Just paper. I would be curious to see what would happen then. Politicians need to focus on what they were hired for and not showing their faces in as many places as possible to gain notoriety and support. Who the hell is supposed to do their job if they spend two years of their term in seat campaigning to get the seat again? Basically we are paying these people 200,000 dollars a year to work half the time they were hired for. If you or I did that we would surely get fired.

We gotta take the power back! You hit the nail on the head Todd. We seem to have forgotten the most basic of fundamentals which we formed our government on. For the people buy the people.

". . . buy the people."

Yup, cheaper by the millions, economy of scale and so forth.

Sorry Pug, couldn't resist.

Sg