{"id":136,"date":"2008-10-01T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-10-13T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:55:13","slug":"the-will-of-the-voter-and-credit-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/10\/01\/the-will-of-the-voter-and-credit-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Will of the Voter and Credit Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until <\/span>the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.” – Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s talk about the will of the voter, and their ability to understand.\u00a0 Many people like to talk about the will of the Voter, yet our founding father didn’t trust the average voter.\u00a0 They feared the Tyranny of the Majority<\/a>.\u00a0 This is one of the why we have an electoral college, so the majority of the large states couldn’t overpower the smaller states. This is also why the Senate has two votes, no matter the size of the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what about other things were the voter was clearly wrong, but it takes \u00a0strong leadership (and very bitter pills) to pass some of of the most controversial laws and rules we’ve had in this 20th century?<\/p>\n

The Civil War and Civil Rights Laws come to mind easily.\u00a0 But race is the easy thing to pick on, sometimes, it takes strength to ignore the Voters and do what’s right.\u00a0 Some people think this “Rescue\/Bailout” is a good idea.\u00a0 Certainly the treasury think so.\u00a0 95 Democrats and A 135 Republicans don’t think you should overcome the will of the voters. (btw, incase this is making you confused, the Voters don’t want the bailout)<\/p>\n

Let’s get something clear. This page is against the rescue plan or bail out-or whatever you want to call it today. As we stated a while a go, a mass infusion of funds<\/a>\u00a0is needed,\u00a0 stiff policies\u00a0 and better regulatory rules updated for todays complicated credit markets, and this fascination we have for living beyond our means [debt.]<\/a><\/p>\n

*and back on track*<\/p>\n

I<\/em>F<\/span><\/em> we are going to continue being a nation who adds debt to our version of capitalism, then this credit crisis needs fixing. Going against the will of the voters is sometimes necessary and better in the long run with careful planning and without partisan bickering. But in this case, the voters are right. Let’s fix this from the root, not fix the corporations.<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s get to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,157],"tags":[389,392,391,390],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-executive-papers","tag-crisis","tag-monetary-policy","tag-tyranny","tag-voter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}