How many people were killed on 9/11? How many people die every year due to alcohol abuse? How many people have died, been wounded, or disappeared in Bush's war in Iraq?

Like illegal immigration our representatives accept $ from corporate un-America with results costing US citizens billions of $!

Tobacco has finally been forced to pay for the damage done but not alcohol. Health care cost alone due to alcohol abuse drives health care costs up just as tobacco. 

What about MADD? Where are the mothers of all the innocent children?

America is a poorly managed nation costing the average American billions of $ while our misrepresentatives make billions along with the corporate influence contributing to our employees.

How is alcohol sales any different than meth? Both provide jobs, destroy lives, profit for anyone willing to engage in the sale & distribution. Jails are full, courts over worked, police understaffed, & innocent people die! Minimum wage makes people think dealing drugs is easy $. Drinking allows an escape from economic woes, false as it may be.

Every city in the nation has a problem with drinking which runs over into everyday life in every phase of life. Weddings, graduations, picnics, baptisms, & church itself. How many people go to church with the thought of going to the bar after?

Boise, ID. has police shooting people at a rate I find disturbing. People call in domestic violence & are left wondering why they called those paid to protect & serve. They just lost a son or father due to police killing a drunk kid or dad. Boise is on record pace, eight + a new one with the shooting of Ricardo Benitez of Meridian, ID. since 2003. Many of these shootings involve alcohol! It isn't rocket science, it's all about profit. Hell there aren't many more gang & drug violence related shootings.

A good cop is hard to find, unless you call for help! They shoot your dad & taxes made on alcohol sales pay the shooter's wages. Idaho controls the liquor dispensaries! Employs liquor store employees with benefits?  Liquor stores open at 11:00 AM. Let's get them started early. The state promotes liquor sales, brags about the revenues, then complains abut the drunks in jail.

There was an editorial in the Idaho Statesman, 5-15-07 about five sheriff's deputies injured trying to break up bar fights in the last three weeks. Where the hell is the State Attorney General? Same place he hangs out when asked about fuel prices I guess. Wasden has radio ads about drunk driving & selling booze to kids. What the hell good does that do?

You can't tell me it's any different in thousands of other small towns all across America. Class action! If you're a victim of alcohol & government profit sign on. Or, wait until after the funeral & wonder if it could have been prevented. Who cares about Iraq? We have a war zone right here in America.

The decision has been made to file a class action law suit against alcohol companies as well as any & all political affiliations & or politicians who accept $ from alcohol companies on behalf of any American who has a problem with alcohol or has suffered loss due to alcohol. This can include parents of children killed or injured by a drunk driver or as a result of alcohol consumption.

This will also represent anyone who is an alcoholic, has driving offenses such as a DUI. Our representatives & the government are making $ on the pain & suffering of people who buy & consume alcohol. Therefore they will be held responsible in that they are either directly or indirectly at fault no differently then a drug dealer who sells to someone who dies, maims or kills another person.

No different than tobacco companies, alcohol companies will now have take responsibility for their negligence through the pain & loss due to their product. Alcoholism is a disease, America has an epidemic on her hands & will have to face the problem in order to solve the problem. It's time to face the truth & accept responsibility as it our representatives who promote alcohol by accepting campaign contributions & taxes generated from the sale of alcohol, no differently than crooked politicians who took money from the mob during prohibition. 

Sign on if you have been injured, family members injured or killed or have been affected by the use of alcohol such as being an alcoholic. Show support in the cure for America's problem, you never know when you could be the next victim or are in fact already a victim, an alcoholic.

It is a conflict of interest for the taxpayers to profit through taxes generated from the sale of alcohol while Americans are suffering from the disease it creates. We have to be accountable for our actions & inactions resulting in the disease, pain, suffering, & at times death created by sale of alcohol if we gain from the sale of alcohol. A drunk driver is held responsible when arrested & if that driver kills or hurts another person & we are responsible for selling alcohol in that we profit from it. To deny this is an admission of guilt. 

Idaho Statesman, 12-14-06 Prosecutors drop charges in student's

fatal overdose.

1st District Judge Charles W. Hosack decided the bulk of the case against

Cameron Jester, 18,  in the death of Gloria Discerni, also 18 amounted to

 double jeopardy because he had already been convicted of related charges.

Nextrev.'s veiw

This is clearly a failure in the judicial system in that there are no

laws in Idaho authorizing prosecution of someone who provides a drug that,

although legal, results in the death of another person. Prosecutor

William J. Douglas said he has spoken to legislators about introducing

a measure next year. Unless I'm mistaken charges can be filed

against someone who provides illegal drugs to someone which results in

the death of another person.

How can we be expected to support profit from the sale of legal drugs,

such as alcohol when innocent taxpayers who don't drink are killed by

someone who has been drinking. Our representatives take money from

 alcohol companies, taxes are generated by the sale of alcohol, &

we as a nation endorse & promote alcohol sales. Victims of

drunk drivers die, drunk drivers are prosecuted, jails are full, we pay

police, courts, & a list perpetual. Every year thousands of innocent

people die & every year police crack down on drunk driving while

state run liquor dispensaries announce increased sales, more revenue.

 Same paper, same day! Seal Rock, Oregon. Man arrested twice in six hours

 on DUI!

After being released from the hospital the second time, he was taken to

jail? He crossed into oncoming traffic & collided with a dump truck! Why the

hell was he driving & not in jail? He was arrested & charged with DUI,

taken to the hospital with minor injuries yet later had a second accident! 

Idaho Statesman, 12-15-06, Same paper, next day!

Idaho: Law enforcement agencies target drunk driving. Idaho Transportation

Department is providing $ for 29 law enforcement agencies to perform

 overtime patrols searching for & arresting drunk drivers from Friday

through New Year's Day. 100 people died in Idaho last year in alcohol

related crashes. 

Nextrev.'s veiw

While this article is involves Idaho, Oregon isn't mentioned, it seems

a little odd that as a nation our representatives accept $ from

alcohol companies. Contradicting! We pay for law enforcement, jails,

courts, judges, & as I said a list perpetual & the state announces

profits in the millions? How much does a funeral cost? You son's,

daughter's, husband's or wife's! Is the tax relief from alcohol sales paying

for that? Can the profits possible replace what you have lost? This

is how misguided our representatives have become. They are what the mob

used to be, they couldn't beat the corruption during prohibition so they took

 over the profits.

See for yourself, who pays & who accepts the money that is killing your child. Check out beer, wine, & liquor contributions.

www.opensecrets.org & www.followthemoney.org

Alcohol & religion

I am beating a dead horse writing about either of these. Alcohol, once a money maker for the mob is now a money maker for the government, same government we pay to enforce laws. Police, courts, jails, treatment, judges, & the states control liquor dispensaries, claiming profits!

Religion, churches like the one pictured on the home page & below left, cost millions to build yet tax cuts given to millionaires in return for campaign contributions just as with alcohol companies.

I've contacted MADD, www.madd.org to try & get them on board with Nextrev. It is too obvious we're failing in a war in Iraq, a war on drugs, & alcohol is promoted in America while the taxpayers sent their kids, the ones that don't die in alcohol related death to Iraq to die in a war based on lies! Our prisons are over crowded! Our government is run by profiteers & the corporations who put them in office! You families are dying & you won't do anything?

People in education are forever asking for $? I don't get it. If education is all these people say it is why aren't they using the education they promote to put government in it's place, working for US instead of killing America's future in wars while they profit? Children of lower class Americans have to die in war to get an education while children of our employees, elected officials go to Harvard, Yale, or other upscale schools & party as did Dubya. They're making money on you in taxes evaded & the death of your kids!

It isn't rocket science & it doesn't say much for US as an educated society to allow our government to continue to fail as it is while we pay in blood, life, & money. The rest of the world can see it yet we can't. Terrorist can't lose!

Are the American people so afraid of their government they send their kids to die in countries like Iraq rather than put government in it's place? Why beg for your own tax dollar to fund education & then send your kids to die in a war based on lies? Why absorb all the taxes corporate un-America evades through campaign contributions when We the People are the largest corporation in the nation if not the world? We employ millions of city, county, state, & federal yet our representatives give tax breaks to corporations which contribute to their campaigns, taxes you absorb. Property taxes for example & your kid can't get a decent education?

The American people are being manipulated, taken no differently than the people of any other nation by the government of those nations. The difference is we can do something about it.

There was a millions man march, the black man abused for centuries by US stand together to make things better for themselves. 11 millions illegal aliens take the day off & protest & they get more representation then 38,000,000 Americans living in poverty, or 45,000,000 Americans without health insurance.

If you told me 300,000,000 Americans don't have ideas that would put our government in it's place, working for US, I'd say your an idiot!  If 300,000,000 Americans can't force our mis-representatives to do their job then we have one shy of 300,000,000 idiots in America! I know what is happening but can't change it with out the ret of the American people! It's simple, get on Nextrev. or send your kid to die! Did you raise the kid for 18 year so he could die in a war based on lies so Bush & co. could make millions of $?

Look at the home page, Ideas would pay $ to whoever had an idea used to eliminate gov. waste or generated $ which created tax $. If I'm an educator begging for my own tax $ to fund education, tax $ my government is throwing at a war based on lies all the while I absorb taxes evaded by corporate un-America while recording record profits I'm going to come up with a way to fund education. If I'm promoting education I'm going to prove how important is by using education to put government in it's place, working for US in stead of profiting on US!

If the education system implemented Nextrev. they would have all the money they need & reduce taxes they absorb as homeowners & taxpayers!!!!!

Implement www.nextrevolution.net into the education system & put the minds of America's future on the job. It's their future & I'd bet they are a damn sight smarter than the parents give them credit for. Motivate these kids with their own future & knowledge. They don't have to slaves to a government controlled by corporate un-America through campaign contributions in return for political favors which taxpayers absorb. They're cheating you out of your life, literally!

During WW! & WWII Americans at home were part of the war effort that helped US win. In 2006 we need to get a grip on the losers selling US out, our mis-representatives & corporate un-America!

While we have thousands of innocent people dying on America's highways every year due to alcohol thousands of stoned hippies got US out of Vietnam by protesting. Pot is illegal while no deaths are responsible due to it. Four kids at Kent State died at the hands of our military, innocent kids who knew war in Vietnam was wrong yet Nixon received credit for getting US out of Vietnam?

That is the best argument for legalization  of pot I can think of, it helped stop a war! Stoned young Americans were a damn sight smarter than our representatives then & I'd bet there are a lot of Americans who if they had the balls to stand up could get US out of Iraq in 20061

Why would anyone post an idea on Nextrev.?

Our Objectives

What Is Happening To America

Put The Government Back To Work For the People

Poverty in America!

Scandals costing US!





Why would anyone post an idea on Nextrev.?

A failing economy and a Democracy evolving into a Democratic Dictatorship in which the corporations and rich who own our representatives through campaign contributions and the Washington Lobby are reason enough. If not maybe thanks
& respect for all the brave people who fought and died so we could be the greatest nation in the world!

I’ve posted an idea which I’ll give to the American people if they can prove they are of the same caliber as all who have given us our freedom. Stop Congress from raiding Social Security!

Read the our Objectives and realize that if accepted I will give the 5% of $ saved by stopping Congress from raiding Social Security back to the people as long as it goes to Social Security. I don’t know how much our Gov. takes from Social Security but what ever it is I do know Social Security is paid by every working American with a SS # and it is said to be on the way to going broke.
I’ll go one better!

I’ll give half of the 5% of $ saved for any of the ideas accepted that I’ve posted to this date, {10-3-03} back to the American people. Of the remaining 2.5% I’ll give 2% to Poverty and Health Care! Nextrev, will accept .5 of 1% of money saved for ideas I’ve posted that are accepted.

35,000,000 Americans live in poverty, millions more live just above that and 44,000,000 have no health insurance. How many are retired living on Social Security and how many are veterans?

Read the Objectives page and realize 4 & 1/2% of taxes paid from income from 5% of money saved paid for ideas accepted goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the American Veterans. The remaining .5 of 1% goes to Nextrev.

Nextrev. and the Greyghost want to know!
Does Gov. in America work for the people or do the people work for Gov.?
Has your Gov. manipulated you into sending your loved ones to die in another country for their freedom while prostituting the American taxpayer out to the tune of 36% of gross earnings here in America?

This site is a test as well as a challenge to the American people!

The world will be our judge, Democracy in America is on trial.

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Our Objectives

1. Put Gov. back to work for the people! Campaign contributions and the Washington Lobby have taken representation away from the people. Get people involved in and to believe in Gov. as written in the constitution. When we put Gov. back to work for the people rather than the people working the first 2 &1/2 hours a day for Gov. and corporations who contribute to campaigns Americans will once again be free!

2. Eliminate Gov. waste. Put an end to foolish Gov. spending by accepting ideas from the people of America. Generate $ to replace taxes through ideas the American people have but go unheard because our representatives don’t listen to individuals. Bring people together with ideas on Nextrev. where they can post ideas and through the backing of each other create their own lobby. Our representatives will listen if the people realize it does work to contact your representative on Nextrev. where the people have a voice in numbers.

3. Pay Americans 5% of the money their idea saves or generates. Eliminating Gov. waste reducing taxes, put $ in the hands of Americans who then pay taxes on income earned from ideas, spending $ earned through ideas bumping the economy, and in doing so generate sales tax through spending.

4. Save Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid! Stop Congress from raiding Social Security and contribute to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid through taxes generated from ideas posted on Nextrev.

5. Money for education and health care will be there when wasted tax dollars are shifted from foolish Gov. programs that have been on the books for years are eliminated. American taxpayers need to realize our representatives aren’t giving Social Security, Education and Health Care the attention it needs. We need to force our representatives to get the job done.

6. Turn the economy around! Allow people to keep more of their money through tax reduction when waste is eliminated as well as $ generated from ideas again giving the economy a boost through consumer spending. Consumer spending will generate sales tax.

7. Eliminating Gov. waste will reduce the time taxpayers work each day to pay taxes allowing people to buy more of what they want & deserve. Cutting the time taxpayers work each day to pay taxes will once again bump the economy & generate sales tax by putting more $ in the hands of the consumer. Cut the time a taxpayer has to work each day to pay taxes by one hour, from 2 &1/2 to 1 & 1/2 hours. At $10 an hour an individual would keep approximately $2400 a year otherwise paid in taxes.

8. Make corporations pay their share. In 1940 corporations paid approximately 50% of taxes but now only pay 13.6% of taxes while individuals pay the other 86.4%, allow Americans to keep and spend more on the economy.

9. Reduce the # Americans living in poverty! Raise minimum wage to a living wage and return America to the people who made her the greatest nation in the world. Make America something we can once again be proud of rather than a hated empire as seen through the eyes of the rest of the world!!!


Compare this to George Bush’s plan and keep the surplus we’ll have when Americans join the cause!

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What Is Happening To America

The American people are afraid of their government, sounds ridiculous but the things working class Americans do and say make it obvious. I talk to people every day who don't trust their government and feel they are being taken advantage of by our government and the influential people and corporations who buy our representatives through campaign contributions as well as the lobby in Washington DC. If people believed they could call their representatives with the expectation of getting anything done in reference to their concerns they would call but how many people make that call? The number of registered voters who actually vote is a good indicator as to how many people really believe in our government and if it really represents the people.

I've had this web site on the internet since October 2002 and not one person besides myself has posted an idea, agreed, or disagreed with ideas I've posted. People tell me I'm going to be audited!

If we continue to let corporations buy our representatives through campaign contributions and the Washington lobby we may as well sign our pay checks over to the government. According to www.ntu.org individuals pay 36% of gross income to taxes, the first 2.5 or 2.5 hours of every working day goes to taxes. I suggest everyone who reads this keep a copy and years from now when your kids and grandkids ask how it go to the point they have to work the first 4 hours of every day to pay taxes you can show them this and explain how you were to busy working the first 2.5 hours of each day to pay your taxes to do anything about it.

In 1940 US companies paid approximately 50% of taxes and individuals paid the other 50%, now US companies pay a little over 13% and individuals pay just over 86%. If this is true any raises individuals have received from 1940 to present have been offset by the increase in taxes which was directly influenced by campaign contributions and the lobby.

The reality is that companies such as Enron and World Com who give millions of $ in campaign contributions to the Republican party and to hedge their bet the Democratic party {before elections} and continue throughout Washington through the lobby in return for political favors. Many companies paid little or no tax and in some cases received money in tax return. Individual American taxpayers covered the taxes these un-American companies cheated their way out of paying which in turn holds the economy down because as individuals we lost spending power and just the opposite of President Bush's tax cut plan has taken place.

American people spend the first 2.5 hours of each day working to pay their taxes but won't spend 15 minutes to vote or write their representatives knowing it doesn't matter because their representation has been bought. people will ask their representatives for money for education, health care, and you name it but still don't understand.

Our economy is failing yet the people of America sit by and wait for the economy to turn around based on our presidents tax cuts. How can the economy turn around by giving the tax cuts Bush proposes on the federal level when most every state in the nation is raising taxes to cover state budget deficits? Contradicting Bush's tax cuts by raising taxes at state levels shifts the burden and does nothing to bump the economy.

NAFTA and all the offshore US companies who we as consumers support through purchasing their products, our increased taxes which they managed to avoid, and jobs they take from the American taxpayer which in turn adds to the taxes we as American taxpayers who remain here absorb is another example of why the Average American taxpayer and the US economy lose. NAFTA is given credit for creating jobs, how many Americans lost a $15 an hour job that went to Mexico and now work two $7 an hour jobs and twice as many hours to support their family and pay the taxes these companies avoid by moving out of the United States?

9/11 and illegal immigration is another example of our government selling us out. I was told by my father in law that when he was stationed in Arizona in the early fifties our government used to round up illegals and haul them back to Mexico on a bus but by the time the bus got back those illegals were already back. The same thing happens today which can be directly related to 9/11, the excuse that there are to many miles of border to patrol is a foolish lie and a poor excuse at best. Corporations have been buying our representatives, promoting illegal immigration, breaking unions, and taking American jobs for years. Not only has this led to American taxpayers losing jobs, our economy failing, but Americans have died {9/11, WTC}.

Love it or leave it should be rephrased to love it or lose it!!! If we as Americans don't come together and do something about our government accepting money in return for political favors the American taxpayer will continue to prostitute themselves out at the expense of family and disgrace the memory of so many who fought and died so we could be free. If the average American who makes $10 an hour could cut the time spent working to pay taxes from 3 hours a day to 2 hours a day they would keep approximately $2400 a year. Compare this to Bush's tax cuts and keep in mind the tax increases within the state you live. That's spending power and a boost to the economy rather than another lie from anther politician who represent the corporation who contributed to the un-American practice of buying the representatives of the people!!!

I'm writing this on 5-26-03, Memorial Day like so many US holidays mean very little. If we continue to do nothing about about these un-American corporations and misrepresentatives of the United States of America we may as well line up at Arlington and take our turn at pissing on the graves of all the brave men and women who died, apparently for an ungrateful nation.

Supportthevets.com points to how we allow our government to make retired and disabled veterans forfeit their military retirement or disability pay to cover health cost. This is another example of the gratitude we show to the people who made America the greatest country in the world.


LOVE IT OR LOSE IT!!!

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Put The Government Back To Work For the People

Enron, World com, and all the other corporate giants that own the politicians that the American people think they voted into office to represent us are proof enough. Corporate reform or talk of it was only to silence the American public who all to soon forget. Employees at these companies weren’t the only ones to lose, anyone with investments in the stock market lost. As far as money lost in the stock market, it was never really there. If your stock looked fantastic it was manipulated to do so and if you never cashed out you never really lost anything, it was never there.

The fact is our politicians have been bought off from campaign contributions and special interest to the point they couldn’t reform corporate scandal without incriminating themselves. The past ten years have been a LIE!!!

The Clinton years were all a lie and now the Bush Administration is covering with the war on terrorism. How many $100,000 campaign donors stayed at the White House when Clinton was in office? How many will stay in our White House while Bush is in office? How much $ did Enron and all the others give to Republicans and to hedge their bet, the Democrats?

How does America compare to Enron and other corporate failures?

A: How far in dept. is America compared to Enron? Who were Enron’s creditors? Who are America’s creditors?

B: Who walked with all the money from Enron and other corporate scams? Who is walking away with all your tax dollars? Like Enron and employee 401K Congress is spending Social Security.

C: Politicians are accepting money from campaign contributions & special interest on top of their pay check from Americans with retirement and health care while the average American goes without health Ins. and retirement {Social Security is spent as a hidden income tax while taxpayers are given tax relief?}

D: Didn’t evidence of people warning Enron top executives come out with corporate scandals? We hear the same warnings everyday about government and our politicians, you’re reading one right now.!!!
Our Government is failing!

Vietnam is all but forgotten, all that remains is a wall which government uses to manipulate the truth. Most of the people who go to fight Iraq weren’t even born when Vietnam took place and the rest forget.

Why were we really in Vietnam? When I was 15 and thought I’d have to go our government said it was to fight communism. Why would we care if communism took control of a dirt poor third world country? Why would we send our young to die for something that could only burden a failing communist movement.


Were we fighting communism or financing it? 58,000 Americans died in front of weapons bought from communist countries like the USSR. The USSR went broke about eleven years ago and would have gone broke years earlier if North Vietnam wouldn’t have spent billions of $ on weapons which were used to kill Americans.


Our government lied all throughout the Vietnam conflict, wasn’t even declared war. A government of the people, by the people lied and sent American people to die for reasons still unknown. Now President Bush would send Americans to die in Iraq to fight a war his father should have finished while he was in office. Our government is still misleading the people!!! I once read an editorial stating Richard Nixon got us out of Vietnam. The reality is that thousands of young Americans demonstrating against the USA being in Vietnam along with four dead students at Kent State in OHIO got us out of Vietnam! The youth of the 21st century will have to lead the way, it’s their future. Their time is here and now, history is repeating itself !

Failures by our Government
Vietnam, 58,000 dead, how many wounded and left behind?

Gulf War never finished, Saddam in control and terrorist killing Americans for the past ten years!!! 9-11

Social security, hidden income tax! Politicians have retirement while spending taxpayers SSI!

Social Security faces cash deficits in 2016! Benefit reduction or tax increase needed beginning in 2001!

Social Security insolvent in 2038! WWW.GAO.GOV!!!

Medicare-Medicaid! Rip-offs! Medicare Hospital Insurance insolvent in 2029

Health Insurance, we buy our politicians Insurance but taxpayers do without!

Education in America!

Prescription drug cost! Rip-offs!

Economy failing while rich corporations buy our representatives! Stock market a lie!

Politicians on campaign trail while on our time raising money for Republicans and Democrats!

Who represents Americans? Taxation without representation!
3000 Americans die in 9-11 terrorist attack which should have been prevented!
National Commission CO-chaired by Gary Hart published in 1999 warning of attack such as 9-11! www.nssg.gov

Task Force on Homeland Security Imperatives chaired by former U.S. Senator Gary Hart.

{U.S. far from ready to deal with terrorist attacks!}10-25-02 A full year after 9-11!

USDA! FEPP wasting million of $! Farm subsidies!

FAA! Failed Security! Evidence of failures every day in the media a year after 9-11!

CIA! Failed homeland security!

FBI! Failed homeland security!

INS! Terrorist, Illegals! Bush gives Amnesty to illegals after 9-11!

IRS! GAO reports billions of $ lost revenue! www.gao.gov!

NAFTA! U.S. jobs going out of the country, how many Americans have been laid-off or face layoff?

Trade Deficit!

If all the people who fought and died so we could be free knew we would do nothing while government sold out to the rich and stuck it to the American people they never would have sacrificed as they did. The monuments we build to pay tribute pale in comparison to the disrespect we show by doing nothing while our government destroys this nation. A flag on a car antenna after 9-11 is all patriotism means in America in the 21st century. We are not a grateful America and it won’t be long before we have exactly what we deserve unless we put government in it’s place!

We need to send a message to Terrorists. They don’t need to destroy America, the rich who buy our politicians and our so called representatives are doing it from right here in the America!!!


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Poverty in America!!!
Why do Americans send their loved ones to die in Iraq when we have many of the same problems right here in America but we do nothing?
Do our wealthy representatives know poverty?

Poverty in America reached 12.8% according to recent studies, 37,000,000 Americans live in poverty! 45 million Americans have no health insurance! How many million Americans are borderline poverty? 18.9% 0f America’s children, 13.5 million live in poverty yet we send their grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, and every American imaginable to fight for the rights of people in other nations. The number of people living in poverty in the USA doesn’t even make the news. Child poverty for children under 6 in a household with no husband is 54.8%.

While president Bush says “bring them on” the father of another child dies for reasons more political than humanitarian as evident in the lack of WMD. If humanity was the reason for war in Iraq we would be at war with half the world, a police action we cannot afford as made evident in Iraq. President Bush recently asked for $87 billion more tax dollars and there is no end in sight in rebuilding Iraq. Will the next billion $ government contract in Iraq go to the highest campaign contributor???

If the media in America were interested in real news instead of ratings I have to believe we’d see Americans living in poverty. $16,660 supports a family of four, what does the hourly wage of two people that gross $16,660 breaks down to? Minimum wage in America is at best poverty level and from what I read our government would like to take overtime away from some people in America, another favor in return for campaign contributions I imagine.

How does NAFTA effect the numbers when American jobs go out of country? How do un-American companies who locate out of country in order to take advantage of cheap labor and evade U.S. taxes effect poverty in America? Whose campaign did they contribute to? Why doesn’t Congress pass law to track U.S. companies located out of country, taxes paid or NOT, campaign contributions made by these companies, and stock holders in these companies???

With another presidential election upcoming I see millions if not billions of $ being donated by corporations and the rich for political favors by America’s representatives yet the number of Americans living in poverty continues to rise. While children go hungry in America how many $100,000 campaign donors will stay in the Lincoln room at the White House. How many corporations will get a tax refund, pay no taxes, or gain government contracts because they donated to the next president of the United States of America.

The Idaho Statesman, 9-27-03 {Housing gives the economy a boost} points to economic recovery and gives credit to Bush’s tax cuts. Bush bought his way into the White House by giving $300 tax refunds to Americans in return for votes, $600 per child tax credits, and this go around an additional $400 per child tax credits yet almost every state in the nation lacks funding for education. Health care in America is nonexistent for the working poor! Was it more important to burn up the first surplus America has seen in years to get himself into the White House?

Most states have been running deficits and raising taxes which offset Bush’s tax refunds negating his tax cuts. How can we spend our federal tax refund to bump the economy when we have to turn it over to the state in which we live to cover increased taxes? . I read Bush has $80 million in campaign contributions, Tax that!!!

The American people need to wake up and start thinking for themselves. Do our employers allow their employees, {American taxpayers} the luxuries we allow our government employees and representatives? Why do we send our loved ones to die for other nations yet prostitute ourselves out for the first 2.5 hours a day to pay taxes while 35,000,000 Americans live in poverty? Eliminate Gov. waste, cut that 2.5 hours a day worked to pay taxes to 1.5 hours. At $10 an hour an American taxpayer would keep approximately $2400 of their income otherwise paid in taxes.
Does Gov. work for the people or do the people work for Gov.???

Compare that to Bush’s tax cuts and keep the surplus!!!

Scandals

A perfect example is Idaho Gov. Kemthorne's plan for property tax. While proposing a $50 rebate to every person in Idaho wasting any surplus, much the same as Bush's $300 rebate that wasted the first surplus America has seen in years the Gov. wants to repeal an exemption that lets landowners in rural areas avoid thousands in property taxes. Kemthorne would allow owners who currently take this developers discount to keep using it until 2010. The Gov. of Idaho takes the exemption on his own 14 acre property in Valley County, paying $5.72 a year in property taxes! Is a true representative of the taxpayers of Idaho.

It's unacceptable that any representative accepting the salary, retirement, and health care provided by the taxpayers would turn around and gouge the taxpayers in property tax exemptions while pretending to promote property tax relief. For some reason taxpayers losing all the same benefits in wages, health care, & retirement cannot see minimum wage raised while state employees are about to enjoy another raise. How many state and federal employees can a taxpayer making $5.15 an hour afford? One idea on Nextrev. is, Paid holidays, everybody or nobody. Why pay government employees for holidays individuals have to work? How many millions or billions of tax $ are wasted while minimum wage is stuck at $5.15 an hour?

Unfortunately it isn't just one Gov. or representative failing US, it's every representative! It should be interesting that the honorable Gov. Kemthorne was in the paper last year for writing a bad check to his hairdresser. I guess a Gov.'s salary, housing,  along with tax exemptions aren't  enough to also afford a haircut. Makes one wonder how someone making $5.15 an hour manages to groom a family of four.

The honorable Gov. Kemthorne wasted millions of tax $ barricading the statehouse in the wake of 911. As if bin Laden had ever heard of Idaho or terrorists were foolish enough to bomb a state capital building in a dirt poor state that has very little economic impact in the US. Kempthorne & co., like Bush with typical republican scare tactics then singled out on Arab student suspected? of terrorist activity. Later released-sent back to whatever Arab after wasting thousands more in tax $ in justifying foolish government waste. Scare tactics only the Bush administration & republicans feel necessary in justifying their own existence.

When a Gov. takes advantage of the taxpayers in evading property tax or any other tax those same people absorb so he can profit or evade taxes he is NOT a representative of the people who pay his salary!

If Idaho's elected officials had a half ounce of brains between them they would protect and preserve the great outdoors Idaho offers and make $ from the natural beauty and outdoor recreational opportunities Idaho has to offer rather than promote tax cuts-incentives for corporate influence lining the pockets of state elected and paid for employees.  Salmon, another perfect example of state politics failing is an issue every Idaho resident and US citizen should be up in arms over. Polluting rivers and killing Salmon while giving tax cuts to corporations is NOT in the best interest of America.

Idaho is over run with scandals, just as Washington DC. The Boise mayor and his chief of staff thrown out of office, mis-use of tax $ for personal trips. A little old lady had to force the issue, our representatives were doing nothing. U of I with the Gov. and many representatives in support of a failing project costing taxpayers millions. A failed downtown tower nothing but a hole in the ground costing millions with no definite plans or way for taxpayers to recoup losses while developers walk away.

Idaho just one state, the national picture is ugly. CIA leaks by top White House staff. Constitutional law brushed aside by the president, campaign finance laws & insider trading broken by top Congressmen and Senate leaders. Defense contracts with $ & lavish gifts the trade for your tax $. Lobbyist sending your representatives to the finest golf courses in the world. 

A failing government.

Governments fail only when people of that government allow it. If we're going to allow the death of Americans establishing democracy in countries like Iraq we, as the people of a government to represent the people need to control those we elect when it becomes obvious they are failing.

Spending billions on a war based on lies, breaking constitutional law spying on Americans, revealing the names of CIA operatives, no bid contracts to corporate buddies and campaign contributors, & making millions on oil as an oil man naturally would not representation in my opinion.

Where are your priorities?

The Bush Administration and corporate influence have decided fish ladders are too expensive and don't work. They don't have an answer as to what does work & in the meantime natural Salmon, a very real natural resource many Americans feel deserve the support to survive are abandoned by our war president.

If gas prices go up we complain, everyone complains and eventually something is done to lower prices. In Idaho the State Attorney General started to look into price fixing and what happened? Prices went down & the investigation was over as soon as that happened.

If something tangible is costing us we do something. If it is a tax created or increased due to corporate influence we're talked into it with a little whimper but pay up. "There's nothing you can do." A $100 here, $200 there, higher heat bills, & so on. Editorials tell the story but the become trash at days end. People know what is going on but have nowhere to go. Call your representatives?

How long are we going to allow this to continue?  If you're tired of corporate welfare and crooked as a dog's hind leg politicians join in. We can make it happen, I can't but we can.
 

The average American is led to believe in America, freedom, & democracy, in the process programmed. Brainwashed from childhood through an education system under funded. Taxes we pay provide a great salary, health care, & retirement to representatives of millionaire status who do nothing as all the same benefits are lost by US citizens. Is that a sign of an educated society? 

Brainwashed into supporting a contradicting form of government promoting war based on lies no differently than a future terrorist is brainwashed into hating Americans. We're taught American history, yet history points to abuses by our government which our government now would attack should another nation do as America has.

What have we done to the Native Americans? Taken their land as they had no written title in a language never heard of until our forefathers came to the Americas and used the language they brought to steal this land. Natives Americans fined and taxed for $ earned in casinos in Sovereign land, land they were relegated to after other lands were found to have rich mineral deposits or other values. Like eminent domain issues recently in the news & taxes absorbed due to campaign contributions the average American is now the target of government. Corporate $, corporate welfare, an ally to terror buying our representation while sending Americans to die in war promoting democracy. Americans who support this nation in taxes, labor producing the product, purchasing the product, & making America happen in every phase of the game.

What have we done to the African American? Would these people we stole from their land feel slavery, the whip, abuses unimaginable, a weapon of mass destruction? Native Americans, the Henry Repeating Rifle? Abuses we've brought upon these people and continue to as recent incidents prove. Government holidays contradicting a racist nation at war with others for abuses which continue in America. Martin Luther King day a paid government holiday while a colored man can still be beaten near death should he look at a police officer in what that officer considers a insubordinate manner.

Governments have a way of singling out people who won't stand together, abusing those people while we as a nation sit by and do nothing. We do nothing and at the same time say in reference to government, "there's nothing you can do." Waiting our turn as individuals for a government of the people,  a government we pay, to find a way to take advantage of US. We're taken advantage of everyday in every way imaginable yet we as a nation don't catch on. Even though we observe Martin Luther King as a holiday, pay thousands, millions of government employees for this day off we contradict in that we abuse people of all worlds.

In 21st century America it matters not so much the color of skin as it does the money you can be taxed. Representatives not only failing in representing US but taking advantage of US. Minorities are manipulated in that illegal immigration has been promoted for years to ensure profits by corporate un-America at the expense of a nation of taxpayers who serve in everyway imaginable. As I said, brainwashed from childhood. Health care cost, drug abuse, disease, & a list perpetual due to corporate influence while the same corporate influence dictates to our representatives in saying they create jobs. Jobs in which they profit in the very creation of.

By doing nothing we allow this to happen because, "there's nothing you can do" has become the battle cry of a 21st century America.

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