When government is done away with, you have Somalia, where government was drowned in a bathtub 25 years ago. Is that what they want here? I call attention to the three earthquakes in 2010--The one in Haiti, were there was no government involvement in bujilding codes, was devastating. The one in China, where government runs everything, was also devastating. The one in Argentina, where private enterprise build the buildings with strict government regulations, was pretty mild. Think about it.

Rather than small versus big, the question is better framed at what level

of government: local, state, or national.

Clearly the EPA and the military should be national.

Gun laws and health care are open for debate.

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We don't have capitalism in this country or any other. We have corporatism.

We have powerful governments that have exceeded their Constitutional and moral authority and we have corporations that control those governments to benefit themselves to the detriment of the consumer and their competition.

Your proposal to limit freedom of speech is myopic. As long as we have a powerful central government, guess who will end up controlling it? The anwer is to reduce the power of the central government. Then wealthy people and corporations will stop trying to control it. No one lobbies the dog-catcher.

In Pittsburgh, a local group known as GASP (Group Against Smog and Pollution) had to sue the EPA to enforce its own laws in the Monongahela Valley. Why even have an EPA? Local groups such as GASP can conduct their own studies to prove pollution, prove that they harm the public, and with a private judiciary with no allegiance to industry, sue the company directly.

As a corollary to the libertarian principles that we created government to protect us from force and fraud, no one has the right to pollute the common air, water, or land. Private freelance judges, who must be accepted by both parties, are the corrective answer to our present system.

More freedom, not less, is the answer to the Monsanto PCB issue.

Most Reagan Democrate, before 1980, were a New Deal Dixiecrats (whether southern or northern). The New Deal part never changed for them; they just wanted "smaller government" for those lazy, shiftless coloreds who didn't know their place. Turns out, the Republican Party is colorblind: they slash benefits equally from all races and creeds--all except the super rich, that is.

FDR raise taxes so high that revenue drop, the following year FDR lower taxes and revenue increased but not buy much ..... Truman, reverse FDR's policies to the extend that he could to prevent a post war depression like we had after WW1. Then IKE keep things stable as we recovered from the war. Senator Kennedy ran on reducing the tax rates to increase the revenue, got elected, and it worked. Then more tax revenue came in as the result of lower rates! Then Reagan lower taxes more and more revenue came it as rates were lower. Now there is some point where lower rates will bring lower taxes. But the problems is how will Berni or Hillary pay for these programs the want to offer .... The simple truth is that we need to cut programs, reform our tax base form employment to goods and non-renewables ..... The real question is who will do what needs to be done .... the Dems do not seem to have anyone willing to address the issue .... The question is do the Reps?

A President Sanders would most certainly use his "Bully Pulpit" to direct the National dialog and pull the curtains down on the T-GOP obstructionists. Seems like Pres Obama pulled out the Populist rhetoric when his popularity was dropping but actions on those policies was pretty weak. I don't expect that kind of "pragmatism" from President Sanders, he knows there is no time for that.

I can't sat I disagree, but while I believe Bernie would restore sanity, I don't know what Trump really believes. Bernie will have a tough time getting things done unless dems have a majority, and Trump would have both parties and the Constitution against him.

I thought there was a petition for one thing to get rid of DWS. Is not there anything to stop her? Her and HRC two of a kind to get out of the party that has gone corrupt.

Thom

If Bernie is to be successful as president, he needs the wave election that you speak of, but to have the wave election - we need candidates that are not beholden to corporations. My point is that Bernie's campaign needs to recruit state candidates. These candidates need a web based citizen contribution system similar to Bernies, and Bernie should advocate that his Donors make equivalent donations to their in-state candidates.

Are there new rules about sharing your article on FB? The post to FB feature doesn't seem to exist with this article.

Please ask Donald Trump the following:

How does private business mix with politicians? How come you tell the private businesses to do what you will, as a poltician, to accommodate their private interests?

To Queenbeethat's me: You say that you are having all of these medical problems because of Obamacare and because you don't need any more Democrats.

The problem here is, Obama isn't a Democrat. Not any more than Hillary Clinton. They are both Neo Cons. Both are DLC-ers. Both are New World Order fascists. These people are NOT true Democrats. These are some of the people, like Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is currently holding the DNC hostage, who have gotten into the Democratic Party for the purpose of undermining it and pulling this country farther and farther to the Right.

The adage is: Follow the money, and when it comes to deciding whether a person stands for working people or for the elite rich, it is all about the money. People like Sanders (and other Progressives) believe that corporations should support working people's lives by providing jobs, goods, taxes and services, whereas elitists like Clinton, Obama and Wasserman Schultz believe that We the People are here to serve the best interests of the rich in making them richer no matter what prices we have to pay in order to make the rich richer.

Obamacare requires, by law, that We the People must sluice all kinds of money to the medical INSURANCE industry. Obamacare is about health INSURANCE; NOT health CARE.

What too many people are completely failing to see is that politicians like Obama, Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the like are NOT Democrats; they are shills for the corporate elite, and we need to get them out of the DNC and out of key positions in the Democratic Party.

So, don't write off all Democrats just because you don't understand this. There are all kinds of different people in the Democratic Party at this time and in order to understand who is what, you need to dig deep into the backgrounds of each person to see their voting records; who they are supporting, what they are supporting, who and what they have accepted campaign monies from, who they are endorsing and who or what has benefitted from their political career.

Obama recently supported a Democratic challenger in an upcoming state election; something he never does. This makes him look very Democratic. But also, he recently signed the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) which will GUT this country for the best interests of workers in favor of foreign countries, corporate interests and the billionaires of the world . Obama is no better than Bill Clinton who signed this country away under NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT.

You need to do you homework, Queenie. You just haven't got it right yet and you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.