Audre wrote on Oct 10th, 2008 at 7:34pm:Cat, I'm not saying let's throw out the Constitution. I'm meaning that, as we can tell by the bailout, the the current government isn't about the people, it's about these big businesses and their own pockets. It wouldn't hurt us to do something for the people, for once, to stimulate the economy and jobs. If you look at Michigan, before everything hit the fan, we had the highest unemployment rate and foreclosures. Bailing out these financial institutions does nothing for Michigan's economy. JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. There's already socialistic examples in the US, why is it bad to do something to help curb what a lot are saying is going to turn into a depression?
Audre, you have to understand where my position comes from, look north. I am Canadian, I moved to the US over 10 years ago when I married my husband who is in the military. I've studied the declaration, the constitution, the federalist papers and even the communist manifesto. I come from a socialist country. It's a far walk away from communism, and many provinces will tell you just how broken socialism is. Health care is a fine example - people who have money in Ontario go to Michigan to PAY for health care because the waiting list is so long in Ontario. My mother has waited TWO YEARS for a breast biopsy for a lump when she has had her sister and 3 aunts die from breast cancer - but she wasn't classified as an urgent case. Then there's the welfare system, which when I left was being revamped to what was called 'workfare' and from what I know it has had some good changes made. To think a little socialism is a good thing is a way to open the flood gates to a lot more. It's the equivalent to saying we don't use the letter V that much, so lets get rid of all the V's in the Constitution - inevitably, it will lead to more and more and more and before long that document won't be worth more than toilet paper.
That would be the biggest crime of the last 2 centuries that I can see - having studied them extensively, and been able to examine them from an outside perspective the Declaration, preamble and Constitution are some of the greatest writings and documents I've ever had the benefit of reading.
Because my naturalization has been delayed and delayed, I normally stay out of political threads. But ask any Canadian who stayed home when the 2 major politcal parties both sucked - and we ended up with the Bloc Quebecois - the separatist party who wanted Quebec to secede from Canada - as the minority government - that's the equivalent to the senate being one major party and the congress being a separatist or similar type of off track party. Sometimes it's better to pick your poison than let someone else pick it for you.
Cat