The Money Party
The Money Party is a small group of enterprises and individuals who have most of the money in this country. They use that money to make more money. Controlling who gets elected to public office is the key to more money for them and less for us. As 2012 approaches, The Money Party is working hard to maintain its perfect record.
It is not about Republicans versus Democrats. Right now, the Republicans do a better job taking money than the Democrats. But The Money Party is an equal opportunity employer. They have no permanent friends or enemies, just permanent interests. Democrats are as welcome as Republicans to this party. It’s all good when you’re on the take and the take is legal.
Michael Collins
The Money Party – The Essence of Our Political Troubles
September 30, 2007
Contact The Money Party here info at themoneyparty.org
Amen, brother. “The Money Party” is definitely the best name for our one-party system. I’ve found one way to vote against them–withhold my money–and two ways to do it, that I’m covering on my blog (above). One way is to force the IRS to refund all our money each year, including the “contributions” for social security and medicare, by filing our 1040s in the only appropriate manner; legal and proper. The other way is to confront the banksters with the law, and stop paying fraudulent mortgages. Will this destroy our financial system? I hope so. We need a new one.
There is no shortage of critique for the way the system always works for those who have against those who have less or have not. Every system has always been that way and is deeply rooted within our own political system, law and process. And the system is not designed to question itself and democracy is able to change this status quo.
But it is possible to change the debate on what it means to be human and blow that status quo strait to oblivion.
For those individuals who can shake off their existing prejudices, imagine outside the cultural box of history, stand against the stream of fashionable thought and spin, who have the moral courage to learn something new, an intellectual and moral revolution is already under way, where the ‘impossible’ becomes inevitable, by the most potent, political, Non Violent Direct Action any human being can take to advance peace, justice, change and progress.
Very quietly, an most unexpected revolution is getting started. One that can reach the parts politics can’t even dream of reaching.
http://www.energon.org.uk
http://middle20percent.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/supreme-court-bombshell/
Supreme Court Bombshell!
It overstepped its authority, and nobody wants you to know it!
By Jack E. Lohman
But the truth is out. Our politicians like the status quo, given to them by the Supreme Court. But a small group of citizens uncovered Constitutional language that promises to blow this court apart.
U.S. Constitution Article III, section 2, clause 2:
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
It limits congressional election control to congress — and not the co-equal Supreme Court — and today’s congress has the power to ignore or reverse Citizen’s United and even the 1976 Buckley v. Veleo decision as it relates to congress taking cash bribes. That is, IF it wants to!!!
But congress either…
(a) doesn’t realize it, or more likely,
.
(b) they like the faulty Supreme Court decisions because they like the campaign cash rolling in and they like blaming the Supreme Court for making it so easy!
.
Getting our congress to fix a system they like broken will not be a piece of cake, but it can be done. And it must be done. Frankly, if cash bribes were not changing hands most of us would not care what laws were passed or what party was in office.
Article III, Sec 2 states that Congress has the power to make exceptions to the court’s appellate jurisdiction, other than in a few areas that are not relevant. They CAN do it if they WANT to do it!
It is a deeply embedded problem
The D’s are as guilty as the R’s, and to get cooperation from either party will not be easy. The only way is for the more pragmatic 20% in the center to come together on this single issue, just as they did to get prohibition repealed decades ago.
So what’s your issue? The economy? Energy policy? Climate change? Schools? Employment? Exorbitant CEO salaries? Something else?
It doesn’t matter. As long as that issue keeps you busy and off the real problem, the politicians and their Fat Cat funders are very satisfied. The issue they care about is the political contributions that keep them in office, and they could care less about your concerns.
Thom Hartman said it best in this short video:
It’s time for Congress and our President to step up and put the Supreme Court back on equal footing with the rest of our branches of government. They need to pass a law ending Judicial Review – take that power away from the Supreme Court – and restore the vision that our founding fathers had of America – a nation where 5 unelected guys in black robes couldn’t make or kill the laws of the land.
The essence is that congress CAN take the unprecedented and self-claimed power from the Supreme Court. The questions are, why don’t they, and why didn’t they before now? The answer is because the Supreme Court is protecting the moneyed political system that keeps these politicians in power, and they like it a lot!!!
But get this: a fix is possible before the 2012 elections, and those politicians not willing must be ousted from office.
It’s of course going to take effort… the pragmatic middle 20% must drop all other issues and come together on this single issue. Tabling the other issues should be easy, since with our corrupt political system they aren’t going to get fixed anyway.
Even some progressives and Tea Partiers are as disgusted with our corrupt system and will join the effort. In all cases the faster the better. Let’s do this now and get back to solving our other problems, but this time we’ll do it without politicians who are being paid not to fix the system.
Start Now!
Other bills will be necessary, like the need to pass a law ending Judicial Review. I’ll keep you posted as they develop.
Sign up above for notifications or
email mop20p@gmail.com or
visit MoneyOuttaPolitics.org and volunteer.
Jack Lohman is a retired business owner from Colgate, WI and author of “Politicians – Owned and Operated by Corporate America.” He is publisher of http://MoneyedPoliticians.net and can be reached at jelohman@gmail.com
–
Jack Lohman
jelohman@gmail.com
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net
http://SinglePayer.info
>>> “America will always do the right thing, but only after everything else fails.” Winston Churchill
Obummer’s taking a Poppy BUSH-DIVE for JEB, 2012!
“what it means to be human” Those are the most revolutionary words out there. If you define it in universal terms and precede policy issues with – “what is the human impact” – you can’t have policies that allow people to die from lack of medical care, nor can you have wars that kill when there is no imminent danger.
Very well said.
Thanks Jay. We do need a new financial system. 60% of the mortgages out there have the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) as the mortgagee, which is a lie and the banks knew it. If the wrong person signs the deal, it’s not a deal. Thanks for the web site info also.
It’s the old ‘revolving door’ made possible by Washington DC practices over the decade. They can try Jeb in 2012 It would show their arrogance They’ll hae to use new levels of election fraud to put him in because Jeb probably can’t win Florida. Stranger things have happened so who knows. Chilling thought.
I just found your blog and find it an interesting and hopeful approach for coming to terms with what plagues the Nation.
It appears you may promote your blog as one that reveals the dangers of our current single party system, but yet it seems also that you look to the progressives to prevail and somehow fix it. I wish I could have as much hope and expectation, but when considering the historical ties that movement has had with totalitarianism, I have concerns.
“All Is Fine Until The Interventionists Come Along”
The market is not a device or an invention aimed at satisfying an intention. It has no purposes or objectives other than to be the place where free people engage one another to acquire and dispose of their property as they deem appropriate for their needs. It is simply a legal framework in which people do things with their justly acquired property and their time in order to pursue their prosperity. The market frames continuing relations among people in which the parties intend only to improve their respective situations.
The market is a process consisting of a series of activities leaving society to be purely and solely a continual series of mutually rewarding exchanges.
Before the seeds of individualism, liberty, and free enterprise were planted on the world landscape of human endeavor, the vast majority of people lived and died in humanity’s natural state of disease-ridden abject poverty and pervasive ignorance. Our existence from the beginning of time had been divided strictly between the strong and the weak, kingdom and serfdom, the rulers and the ruled, and haves and have-nots. Division was singular between the one and the other. If one was born privileged, they remained privileged. For the one born destitute, they remained destitute and they bred more destitution. Inclusiveness was forbidden and competition restrained.
Nothing tells the story more aptly than the economic historian Angus Maddison who once calculated that per capita Western European incomes in 1 A.D. averaged $600, rose to $800 by 1500, and reached just $1,200 by 1820. In China average per capita income was $450 in 1 A.D., rose to $600 by 1500, and reached only $700 by 1820.
In his treatise on economics titled “Human Action”, Ludwig von Mises of the Austrian School of economics describes in scholarly detail how it all came to change with the ideas of the classical liberal economists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed the genius of reformers and innovators from the straightjackets of the guilds, government tutelage, and social pressure of various kinds. It was they that reduced the prestige of conquerors and expropriators and demonstrated the social benefits derived from business activity. None of the great modern inventions would have been put to use if the mentality of the pre-capitalistic era had not been thoroughly demolished by the economists. What is called the ‘industrial revolution’ was the offspring of the ideological revolution brought about by the doctrines of the economists. The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods; that it is iniquitous to deviate from the traditional methods of production; that machines are an evil because they bring about unemployment; that it is one of the tasks of civil government to prevent efficient businessmen from getting rich and to protect the less efficient against the competition of the more efficient; that to restrict the freedom of entrepreneurs by government compulsion or by coercion on the part of other social powers is an appropriate means to promote a nation’s wellbeing.”
As I ponder the times in which we live and assess our predicament and place in history, the parallel of what was the pre-capitalist era and what is now the post-capitalist era is striking. We have come full circle to the need for another birth of ideas; something on the scale of those of the classical economists that brought about the last ideological revolution.
What were then guilds are now trade and labor unions, thousands of special interests, and hundreds of thousands of lobbyists. What was then government in the role of guardian has become government in the role of provider and arbiter as well. The age old concern about government is its force and the equally aged concern about its provocateurs is their power. The lords then dispersed throughout the kingdom to secure allegiance to the king, his court, and the centralization of power today have become the career politicians and dutiful bureaucrats acting upon the interests of those who own their conduct and control their course. They have assumed the power to ordain at will the impulses of those who finance their role. It is above all else the task once again to hold the more efficient in a checkmate that enables the less efficient to prosper.
Although the politicians speak to it for political gamesmanship, what may become of a declining middle class is of little consequence to what government has become. Much of the lower class long ago resigned itself to forget upward mobility and to accept dependency. Those in the middle class who fall into dependency will also be sustained enough to quell their unrest. Those of the higher class on both the right and the left who hold their wealth for the power it derives will always in the end forsake their morals for self-preservation. Both empowered socialists and crony capitalists will feed and shelter their serfs just what it takes to keep them consigned to their fate. Because of their power they have no incentive to change things. They feel no uneasiness nor imagine a more satisfactory state of being.
Are we to resume rising toward greater prosperity or are we to further the decline? Do we get there with more individualism or with less? Conservatives, liberals, and those who in the end vote to carry their water are organized around bureaucratic systems that funnel resources from the masses to special interests with whom the two gangs are aligned politically, economically, and ideologically. Once the factions’ elites are aboard long enough to covet the power they derive individually, the desire for stabilization sets in. They become and forever remain wary of any alternatives that may undermine their enshrined interests.
Individualism and its abiding regard for economic liberty were born of the Age of Enlightenment. In taking human beings from their Neolithic beginnings to the industrial revolutions, it was the last and greatest cultural movement given to technological innovations that are alone responsible for bringing less poverty and greater inclusion to the masses. That it has all been circumscribed by a factionalism that is nothing other than a rebirth of our Neolithic beginnings, cries out once more for renewed enlightenment. Conservatives and liberals are but reactionary elites who have called a halt to innovation in order not to jeopardize their status.
Ron A. Hoffman
http://themindissovereign.blogspot.com/