Patty

Freedom of speech, action, thoughts, with the innate understanding that with freedom comes responsibility. We are responsible to educate ourselves so that we can exercise our freedoms intelligently and meaningfully. And we are responsible to not use our freedoms to hurt others.

Politics and politicians have completely abandoned the American people. We have become the silent majority, our voices hijacked by corporations, greed, and special interests. Our two political powers have become so focused on numbers that they have both lost sight of who they are supposed to be respresenting.

Disband both the Republican and Democratic parties. Create laws that make it illegal for political parties to grow past a certain size. Encourage the development of many political parties that more closely follow the views of their members. Make it illegal for any campaign contribution of any kind from any person or corporation (or LLC) to be larger than $100 and send anyone who breaks this law (on the giving or receiving end of the transaction) to jail with no possibility of parole or plea bargain. Make the jail time longer for back room deals. Set a budget for all campaigns that they are not allowed to exceed with serious consequences if they do - like permanent expulsion from politics. We live in the world of online social networking and web videos - do we really need to spend a couple of million on TV commercials when that money could have created jobs for Americans who are about to lose everything? The media should actually be practicing journalism again. All news agencies should become public like NPR and talk shows that pretend to be news shows should be forced have a constant statement denoting their purpose of entertainment and who is financially backing them if they are a polical talk show.

The truth and all its facades!! I'd like to see modeated discussions from people of differing viewpoints that inculde ALL viewpoints, the moderates as well as the extremists. I'd like to see a website that empowers the average American caught in the middle of this windstorm.