Originally Posted by JavaBlack

For one thing, people need to actually vote in primaries. Most people don't, especially non-presidential ones.

Face it... most of us are more on one side of the fence or the other and see the other side as opposite our ideas for what would work... and incompetence beats going backward.

We need to start being active in picking who represents our side of the fence... This is even more important, given that most districts across the country are "safe districts". The primary, quite often, is the only real election in a lot of races.

Originally Posted by myview

Time to clean house and fire them all. Americans need to do an evaluation of every member in congress. If they are not doing a satisfactory job fire them. Forget about party lines, thats part of the problem. I just don't understand that after all this mess anyone would vote in the same people who created it. Some of these people have been there longer than a lot of us have been alive. Maybe we need a term or age limit. I'm really not for that but if we are not going to vote out incompetence then what choice do we have. A lot of the problem is our fault, we've let them get away with it for to long.When election day comes, not just for Pres. congress as well, vote these fools out. Anyone of us couldn't do a worse job. Get Mad! And get rid of them! Were all in this together. You know the saying Devided we fall
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Originally Posted by Bluebird

I do agree that WE the people have been complacent for far too long,and that is changing,too late for our crisis,but better late than ever,and for that I thank OBAMA,he has gotten US off our collective **** to pay attention.
Now,I like to find out what the problem is,where it started and then how to solve it,so a question I have today is,I know what the problem is,how it started,but how to fix it,is very perplexing. Everyone is saying today that Bernacke and Paulson are the BEST economic minds in Washington,well,if that is the case how could they not see this coming,WHY did they let this happen to us?My lingering question then is WHO are the more POWERFUL people controlling Bernacke and Paulson's decisions.If we find the answer to that,then we know who needs to be booted.Any theory's folks?

Originally Posted by Bluebird

My lingering question then is WHO are the more POWERFUL people controlling Bernacke and Paulson's decisions.If we find the answer to that,then we know who needs to be booted.Any theory's folks?