Subject: Just Doesn't Stop

Cool, chikopee...thanks...
We are on common ground here, guys. The rich are rubbing our faces in it. Blatantly.

Can't pass that bill unless we add another 150 billion in tax cuts...just buy those votes.

Here in our fair city of New York (where we shall feel the pinch quite dramatically), our billionaire mayor has decided, after years of staunchly defending term limits (2 four year terms) that the city needs him to lead us out of this crisis and, so, has decided to request the City Council to change those limits to 3 terms. Permanently. Of course...this would also increase the City Councilmember's limits to 3 terms, as well. Permanently. Soooooo...how do you think they're going to vote on that. PLUS: he's got the full backing of his good buddy, fellow billionaire Ronald Lauder.

Now...there's no doubt that Mr. Bloomberg knows money and he DID do a fine job of pulling us out of the financial crisis brought on by 9/11. But Rudy Guiliani also tried to extend his term limit, just after that crisis, by putting it up to a public referendum. A vote by the people. He was defeated. Soundly.

Mr. Bloomberg, however, seems not to see the need to put the decision in the hands of the people.

Bottom line: big money folks screwed us on Wall Street and now we're going to be rescued by the big money folks who don't want to leave their nice positions of power in government.

I cannot even begin to tell you how incredibly sick this makes me...

Thanks, again, chik...sorry for any misunderstanding with those CAPITAL LETTERS.

If only that vote were counted. Electronic voting machines are mostly made by a company whose owner has publicly "promised to deliver the election to GW Bush". He later claimed to have been quoted out of context. But I still wonder about the many documented cases where hundreds (thousands?) of votes got lost in local elections. The voting machines have no way of recording what happened.

Oh, and then the attempts at foul play by the republican party. I'll just give a couple of links. Republicans have in some cases been convicted for this, but of course since the elections are over in a day, there's no way to count a disenfranchised voter retroactively.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/09/michigan-republicans-to-foreclose-on.html

http://www.lawyerscomm.org/2005website/projects/votingrights/memotomedia111700.html

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/001293.html

http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Voter%20Disenfranchisement

Most of this doesn't add up to a case that would stand in court, but by golly, isn't it a coincidence how everything points in the same direction?


Victor.

Electronic voting machines. Another example of something we did NOT want that was put into place, anyway.

Then to eliminate the paper trail...

It's just so blatant.