[jeffmo]

Agendas & bought politicians are what's running this country now.
We need campaign reform....period!
until that happens a politicians vote is up to the highest bidder.
Here In Ohio we had the fight brought to us as public sector workers in the form of what was called SB5.The Republican Governor passed it off to the public as much needed reform to "supposedly" rein in the out of control costs of public sector workers salaries and benefits.In the end it was proven to be a bill that had articles hidden away within it that served no purpose other than to initially weaken and ultimately eliminate public sector unions.
As time went by and these articles were revealed to the public the Republicans pushing the bill were shown to be less than honest in the intentions.
In the end,the bill was voted down by a huge 63% saying NO to it.
This bill,which was very similar to the one in Wisconsin and some other states was simply put,an ALEC agenda item that was put into place by these Republican Governors.The reason for these bils? Well,as I said,the public was told that the new legislation was to help cut skyrocketing public employee costs.Again,when the truth was revealed,their efforts suffered.The true intent of these bils serves only one purpose,to initially weaken and ultimately eliminate public sector unions.the reason is simple.Without the unions the Republican party would have eliminated much of the Democrats ability to finance a Presidential campaign.Here in Ohio the Republican party Chairman publicly stated that their intentions were to "break the union by forcing them to spend their money twice so that they would be broke when the Presidential campaign came around".
IF,and I hope it doesn't happen,the ALEC organization and the Republican party were to be successful,it would cause the largest political power shift this nation has ever witnessed.My personal opinion it that NEITHER party should ever have such lopsided control of our government.
the current situation we are witnessing it that there are 2 dominant views in our nation,the ultra right and the ultra left with no middle ground and very little gets done because of it.