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VOTE STRIKE

What is a national Vote Strike?
It is you withdrawing your consent to be governed by the inept & corrupt Republican & Democratic parties.
This blog was created for you, the voters, because whichever party you belong to they have failed you.
Vote Strike does not support any candidates or political parties. Vote Strikes goals are 1. end corporate control of our politicians by 2. ending the two-party system & by 3. making all elections publicly funded.
Our two main political parties promise everything & deliver nothing. Their slogan should be "Pay more - expect Less". Our roads, bridges, dams, health, schools, jobs, borders, deficits, etc. can not survive another 4 years of a Republican or Democrat in the White House. We need real change & we need it now! The kind of change that can only come from new parties & publicly funded elections.
1. Publicly funded elections: voters in Arizona & Maine approved "Clean Elections" laws in the late 1990s, ...allowing candidates to recieve full public funding for their campaigns. The goal of these systems is to give more average citizens a political voice & allow them to forgo private fund-raising & it's negative associations with special interest groups...
Maine & Arizona had a chance to test their systems in 2002, proving that candidates can run successful campaigns on full public spending. In that year, 39 of Arizona's elected candidates were "clean" - 22 Rerpublicans & 17 Democrats. ...The state's voter turnout went up by 10%. In Maine, three-quarters of the state Senate & half of the state House are elected officials who recieved public funding. (For more info on "clean elections" clink the Resources link).
2. End the two-party system: hold a one day national Vote Strike on election day. Run the crooks (PACs, lobbyist, Republicans & Democrats) out of town. America is a democracy which is majority rule so why do we allow fringe groups & corporate lobbyist to run our country??? If less than 50% of registered voters turn out for the Republican & Democratic general election it will be null & void. Anyone who participates in this election will still be able to vote in the special election held the following day. Special election see #4.
3. Multi-party publicly funded elections: We need at least 5 new political parties. We need a real Labor party that can stand up to China & corporate lobbyist, repeal NAFTA & protect American jobs before we're all outsourced or down-sized. We need a real Social Conservative party that will only run candidates who stand for their beliefs. We need an Energy party to wean us from an out-of-date energy supply. We need an Education party because having a nation of dummies/drop-outs that are unprepaired for a hi-tech workplace is just plain stupid. We may need a Peace party to even out the effects of the military industrial complex. And the Republicans & Democrats should merge & call themselves the Tax & Spend party.
4. Hold a special election (the day after election day) to replace the out-going administration. Special elections are generally called when a congressmen or senator dies mid-term. This special election would be for the death of the Republican & the Democratic parties. Every ballot would have "none of the above" as an option.

We the people (the voters) find ourselves in a very difficult position. Local governments are forced to do the job of the federal government. From natural disaster relief, border security, rampant illegal immigration, food safety, inadequate bridges, dams & hiways, disease epidemic, drug epidemic, mental health care crises, some local governments are even combating global warming because the federal government isn't doing its job! The problems are endless, some states are facing a drinking water shortage, drop-outs & low education levels are problems that just keep right on giving. Causing a financial burden on local governments so that even local services have to be cut.
We the people (the voters) replaced/kicked-voted out the top tier of the government & yet the crooks and the thugs are still there, still in power, as brutal as ever.
Before we gave a majority to the Democrats in both houses pork & ear-marks were out-of-control. Democrats promising to clean it up were elected. And yet pork & ear-marks are still out-of-control. This year (2007), members of the house of Representatives wrote at least $4.2 billion in earmarks. The same is true across the board, wether you voted in a Democrat or a Republican they have failed you. And now we are being asked to pick between a Republican or a Democrat as our next president.
Which brings us back to: we the people (the voters) find ourselves in a very difficult position.
Because politicians act like the big three auto makers did in the 70s, they could care less about the (consumers) voters because they know that you have no real choices. You will pick Republican, Democrat or throw your vote away on a third-party candidate.
So how can we change this?
It's like the shell game. Corporations & special interest groups by means of lobbyist, PACs, soft money etc. have turned voting into the new shell game. We pick Republican, Democrat or Independent (third-party), but it doesn't matter which party or candidate you vote for because they have almost the same financial backers. And regardless who gets elected there are lobbyist bribing whichever party takes office.
Which brings us back to: we the people (the voters) find ourselves in a very difficult position. Most people after losing enough money (we're at 9 trillion dollars so far) walk away from the shell game, realizing that it's a con.
But we're in a difficult position because we can't just walk away from the voting booth, no matter how rigged it is.
Or can we? What if we could use the election cycle to remove the Republicans & Democrats from national office.
America is a democracy which is majority rule so why do we allow fringe groups & corporate lobbyist to run our country?
Americas first hundred years we had a king which is a one party system. Over 200 years of independence & we now have a two party system that we call a democracy. While other democracies around the world have 5 or more political parties guaranteeing a wider range of economic, socio., political, & environmental agendas/choices.
Why is it that Germany which is smaller in size than Texas has 5 political parties while we only have 1 1/2 (political parties).
Suppose you were on the Titanic & you were up on deck & looking out you saw a huge iceberg in your path. And you call up the Captain & you point out the iceberg but the Captain says don't worry your on the Titanic, you've got nothing to fear. Should you do nothing & hope for the best? Or should you throw the Captain overboard & steer the ship to safety?
It was the founding fathers belief that to self govern was a God given right. That we loan those rights to the government. And therefore it was we the people (the voters) who held power & it was on loan. And when that government became useless or abusive it was the duty of the people to take that power back. Not just through the ballot box but through the first & second amendments.
Our two main political parties promise everything & deliver nothing. Our roads, bridges, dams, health, schools, jobs, borders, deficits, etc. can not survive 4 more years of the Republican & Democratic parties. We need real change & we need it now. The kind of change that can only happen through new political parties & publicly funded elections. It is time to throw the Captains of both parties overboard & steer the country to safety.
We the peolpe have shed blood for this democracy, not for PACs, lobbyist, pork/ear-marks, mansions, limos, private jets & stacks of cash hidden in the freezer! This is not what the founding fathers fought & died for. They put many checks & balances into our system because they understood the dangers as well as the benefits of a democracy.
A national Vote Strike is a one day strike to shut down/remove the two national parties. It does not forfiet our rights. Because the next day, we the people (the voters) will re-open the polls to hold a special election to replace the out-going administration. All of our local governments as well as the Constitution would stay the same.
Strikes are called for a variety of reasons but the goal is always the same: to raise our standard of living. There is a simple reason why government has failed: politicians are forced to raise large sums of money & sometimes that money comes from over-seas corporations/governments (China/Saudi Arabia) & sometimes from domestic corporations (Western Union/Tyson Foods/Haliburton) whose sole concern is their bottom line, which sometimes conflicts with our best interest.
We the people (the voters) are a branch of democracy given checks & balances to right the abuses of power. Term-limits & campaign finance reform have not worked. America has been hijacked by privilege & special interest. You must work harder (Americans worker productivity up) for a lower pay (while actual wages declined) that is your job in the new global economy. When the founding fathers wrote the first & second amendments their intent was for we the people, the citizens/voters to protect this democracy at all cost. Not from foriegn invasion but from our own government.
How can a national Vote Strike save our democracy? For more visit: votestrike.com

Vote Strike does not support any candidates or political parties. Vote Strikes goals are: 1. end the two-party system. 2. end corporate control of our politicians by 3. creating multi-party elections that are publicly funded.

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