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If we only voted on what really matters!!!

published by Brett Brooks_6 on 05/01/13 3:10am
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Portland
There's a lot of things going on that Ii would love to vote on! The war! Bailouts! The reform of outdated laws!! But instead we only get to vote on a representative: Everyone craves for that leader to look up to for wisdom . Look at the laws in place that protect big banks and fuck the people! None of those laws would be in place if it were voted on by the people!! The problem is there are a lot of idiots in the world that are easily tricked into believing these politicians have our best interest at heart!! Like a drug addict parent passing their bad habits generation to generation, we to as a society have done this as well--not asking questions, not demanding reform, we to are passing the cycle of ignorance!! Don't get trapped into the rah rah America bullshit!! We get tricked into thinking this is our Team AMERICA yeah!" So for money we send innocent kids and fathers and all the tanks money could buy over to another country to keep control, The ideals of prospering a nation by war are far outdated!!! The killings and death in Iraq will directly effect the communities we live in if we keep the mindset of "As long as its over there we are okay." Is 90% of the world's opium supply in Afghanistan worth the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians as well as the troops we sent over there!! Why was Karzai's brother on the CIA payroll while he was selling heroin? These questions are never asked because everyone is too busy singing their country music songs feeling like they are part of the baddest toughest country on earth but they are the slaves keeping the system running!! We are still in Iraq!! Any WMD's? I sat on the border of Iraq at 19 years old ready to go kill someone--I never knew why. Oil? Lithium? War is profit! We are all a bunch of slaves! This may sound ridiculous but this is what history writes........
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If we only voted on what really matters!!!

There's a lot of things going on that Ii would love to vote on! The war! Bailouts! The reform of outdated laws!! But instead we only get to vote on a representative: Everyone craves for that leader to look up...
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