Has Anyone Else Completely Lost Faith In The Government?

[NC_Skins]

Nothing is going to change until you get corporate influence out of our politician's pockets. Get rid of the corrupt politicians and get rid of the lobbyist (or put some serious reigns on it).

For too long, many of our policies and wars have been dictated by the money making machines, which has ultimately brought our country to its knees in debt.

I'm also in favor of bringing new parties out and steering away from the Republicans/Democrats. Too much bickering and grand standing is happening and it's causing serious problems in our legislation. You have parties stonewalling the others JUST so they can turn around at election time and say "SEE, he did nothing".

This quote by JR says it all.

The bottom line is, just like you can't create morality through legislation, you can't legislate or regulate an informed electorate into existence. You can regulate lobbiests, you can make term limits, BUT, if the voters don't take the time to investigate their governmental representatives (small "r"), then no amount of legislation is going to change things. Without the populous holding them accountable, lobbiests and corrupt politicians will simply find ways to manipulate and avoid the laws' and regulations' intent.