In order to "Take America Back" the first things that would be necessary would be major reform to both campaign financing and to the ways that the people can be drowned out by the huge contributions of "soft money" from major corporations.
Another major problem is that those forming our original framework for government never anticipated some of the changes in how Corporations function.
The rights of the individual voter seeking representation has been lost.
Sadly, in an attempt to protect religious freedom we gave nearly unlimited latitude to anything that represents itself as a "church" or religious institution. Many religious organizations these days are nothing more than for profit corporations masquerading as religious institutions. They have corporate structure, they deal in quantities of money that are large enough to be staggering to the imagination and they pay extremely high salaries to their executive officers.
Most of us view churches as places where people can worship in their chosen manner and also find help and sanctuary in times of personal crisis. Today we have people operating churches purchasing movie production companies, television networks, businesses, rental properties, which are all "for profit" businesses. These are then "cloaked" in the wraps of religion and the tax base for these entities are completely lost.
Today, there are ministries that seem to exist simply to solicit donations. The money donated is invested in advanced communications systems to of course solicit more donations. This is a spiral.
These same ministries do not feed, clothe, help the sick, or anything else. They exist totally under a profit making corporate structure.
They ONLY thing that they are not doing is going public for stock. If they went public, they would be subject to other rules.
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The "dumping" of government contracts is another issue.
Some years ago General Motors bought a military supplier by the name of AM General. They manufactured predominately public transportation vehicles and Military Vehicles for the various armed forces. The Hummer H-1 was probably the best known.
General Motors through incredible mis-management ran the mark into the ground by building toys for the idle rich, and using the government contracts to finance these. The United States Government had requested changes in the H-1 to upgrade the diesel engine and to improve the performance of the vehicle in some circumstances. General Motors in violation of an existing military contract refused to do the upgrades to the Mil-Spec model, but in the final production did make these upgrades to the toys of the rich again using Government dollars to make these changes.
Because of the unhealthy relationship between GM and the United States Government there was never legal action against GM for the screw-job our Government and our troops took under this thinking.
The bottom line of this is that corporate entities receive different treatment and are rarely punished when they are in violation of contracts.
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The elimination of "conflict of interest" between government officials and private industry or "corporations" is another area where our Country has been taken away from us.
It has been proven again and again that extremely high ranking corporate executives are appointed to or hired for positions within the Government which regulates and is supposed to protect us from the very industries from which these people originated. As a result the people are "fleeced".
One example of the "fleecing" is the drug AZT. The drug was priced outrageously by it's manufacturer in the beginning. The reason for the drug pricing originally was stated as Research and Development Costs. It was later quietly proven that this drug was an unsuccessful chemotherapeutic agent developed under Government Paid Grants.
The corporation lied and was never prosecuted for their falsehoods. The reason being that a number of people who had formerly worked for this pharmaceutical giant were by the time the discovery took place in the employ of the FDA.
In taking things back, the idea is to have government again representing us, the genreral population of the United States of America. Currently, many of the organizations within the United States of America are instead working very hard to preserve the profits of the largest corporations in the country at the expense of the American people.
The first stop in taking back America is to initiate many investigations that start following thousands of threads of money that was paid in taxes and is through the efforts of major corporations assuring and protecting profits rather than assuring our health, our safety and our freedom.
