The rich are skimming off our labor while offering the American people no real service. I want to pay my boss, he does the paperwork and buys new chairs for the lounge room. I don't want to pay a person to jet set around the world and play golf. As a society, people have chosen to pay a small group of people billions of dollars from the fruits of our labor. The people need to pay teachers, caretakers, bridge builders and disabled veterans substantially more. These labor forces are the backbone of our country, they make America run.
The large corporate groups are too closely intertwined with our government. Politics should not require large bank accounts for participation. A citizen should not need corporate backers to run a campaign. It requires a certain amount of money to inform citizens about the different platforms and candidates. People need healthy mediums for informing the public, but don't need to have advertisement wars. The operation of political campaigns should be a function of government. I would prefer to max political contributions from individuals and organizations to zero. If this country can't operate a democratic election without my money, I just don't understand.
Citizens lack transparency. The people don't really know what is going on behind the closed doors of our government. The real decisions are made in private meetings and dinner parties. I still have trouble believing how the National Security Agencies mass surveillance program barely bothered the American public. I want more access not only to how we are being governed, but I want more access to the corporate surveillance activities. I am not asking for Coca-Cola's secret recipes or the United States Military plans. I want federal oversight of their operations at all times, not just when there is a problem.
The media is not controlled by the citizens. It is operated by people who want me to buy things and I don't like commercials. More seriously, I think the news media is not telling me about the issues I want to know about, not answering the questions I really have, and basically, a waste of time. The alternative medias aren't getting out unscathed. The alternative medias across the spectrum are appealing to their base, not reporting both sides of the story in a fair way. I rarely see any disagreements in opinion from the left or right alternative medias. There is no dissent in political opinion among those which subscribe to being of a particular political identity.
People collectively refuse to compromise ideologically. People are not going to agree on morality. People are not going to like the results of every election or democratically made decision. People must decide to put down some of our differences. People need to live and let live, while remembering not to tread on our fellow citizens. I don't think you must love thy neighbor or turn the other cheek. I say people need to have a little more respect for the opinions of people who disagree with our personal beliefs. People need solutions that give everyone an opportunity to live in the America they choose, without infringing on the rights of others to live in the America they choose.