Texas Ballot and Corporation Bailouts
It's sad the amount of bs that our government takes part in. We have Texas that put Barack Obama and John McCain on their ballot for November even though the Republican and Democrat parties failed to file their nominations with the Texas Secretary before the deadline (August 26th). Then we have our government bailing out corprations with billions of dollars that it doesn't have to spend.
As a result of Texas putting McBama on their ballot, Bob Barr has filed a lawsuit to keep them from being on the Texas ballot. While I don't expect Bob Barr to win because of bureaucracy, I do believe that Barr is right. Barr's campaign requested and received the filings of both the Democrat and Republican parties. The filings clearly show that neither party filed correctly before the August 26th deadline.
Here is the Texas statute stating the guidelines of filing for the ballot:
192.031. PARTY CANDIDATE’S ENTITLEMENT TO PLACE ON BALLOT. A political party is entitled to have the names of its nominees for president and vice-president of the United States placed on the ballot in a presidential general election if:
(1) the nominees possess the qualifications for those offices prescribed by federal law;
(2) before 5 p.m. of the 70th day before presidential election day, the party’s state chair signs and delivers to the secretary of state a written certification of:
(A) the names of the party’s nominees for president and vice-president; and
(B) the names and residence addresses of presidential elector candidates nominated by the party,
in a number equal to the number of presidential electors that federal law allocates to this
state; and(3) the party is:
(A) required or authorized by Subchapter A of Chapter 172 to make its nominations by primary election; or
(B) entitled to have the names of its nominees placed on the general election ballot under Chapter 181.
The GOP didn't have Palin on their submission, and the DNC didn't file until August 27th. This is just further proof that third parties are intentionally held to high regulations while the two major parties can just lean on state legislatures to ignore established law. This practice really does spit in the face of the electoral process of America. It's no secret that bureaucracy in America is trying to make it so that nobody's voice counts unless it's used to support one of the two political puppets.
What really gets me is what the Democrat Party chairman, Boyd Richie said. In his obliviousness, he stated, "Quite frankly, I find it very ironic that those in the Libertarian Party, who have in the past been champions of ballot access, are now making attempts to limit that access here in Texas."
The jackass completely misses the point. It's not a matter of ballot access. It's about playing fairly in the political arena. No party should be given any special treatment over another party, especially when it comes to things like ballot access. The law is law, and every party should be held to these laws. The Libertarian Party accepts the consequence of not being on the West Virginia ballot because of a late filing, even though the Democrat and Republican parties didn't have to file for another month. No party is above the law, and that's the point.
Then we have the government spending money that it doesn't have to bail out corporations. There's not a whole lot to say on this issue. The fact is that it shouldn't ever happen. The government cannot be bailing out corporations or people, especially with money IT DOES NOT HAVE. We're going even further into debt because of corporations? I'm sorry, but that's not how it should work. What are we going to be spending on these bail-outs? Not $500 million, but $500 billion. Why our government seems to think that bankrupting itself (or the people) is a good idea is way fucking beyond me.
All of this is frustrating me, and as much as McCain and Obama are toting around "real change" for this upcomming election, it just is further proof that they have no fucking clue what real change means. They don't have any formulas for a better America. They're just working towards higher agendas fueled by corruption and money. America needs a real change. America needs a rEVOLution.