reply to post by seabag
OK Great!
You are saying the source is the person who takes the bribe.
I say the source is where the bribe originates.
The bribe originates because American business culture is focused on the idea that profits are the only goal. Being a great company means nothing.
Being the best company means nothing. Being a company with a history means nothing. The biggest possible profits are the only goal.
Buying politicians and writing policy that benefits you is just based purely on greed. Profits should not be the only goal. Being the best at what you
do because you truly care about what you do should be the goal.
You change that at the source as well. In education, and social conscience and changing the culture that having more is always better.
You go to the source, which is wealth, and need.
You show to wealth that it can be more fulfilled and satisfied by eliminating need. Not just in themselves, but also in others. You show wealth that
helping people enjoy their lives more, benefits everyone in society. Less crime, more community, increased ability of the middle class to spend more.
Attempting to eliminate the lower class and lowest class and have a distributed middle class.
Simple facts start to change. Poor people have more babies than wealthy people because sex is still something they can do. So more poor making more
poor babies means eventually you will have a giant base of ultra poor. That increases crime, reduces community because undereducated, angry and want
filled needy people tend to be people no one wants to spend time around.
The middle man needs to change. No doubt. But if the manufacturer stops making the product, the middle man has nothing to peddle. And that is the
source. Where "it" is made. Greed. It's as simple as that. Everyone wants it to be more complicated, more evil, more conspiracy riddled. But it
isn't. It's the simplest thing in the world for a supposedly christian nation to understand.
What would Jesus do?
How much would Jesus charge?
Who would Jesus heal?
Who would Jesus feed?
How many people would Jesus watch die because he wanted to ensure he got another 8% profit?
But no one wants to own up to it. I'm not even a christian and I understand that the simplest of Jesus's teachings if applied honestly would pretty
much END all the internal issues we have in this country.
Or you can keep blaming the middle man. It's pretty much WHY the truly wealthy have that governmental buffer to cover their behinds. So that there is
another straw man to point at and blame, and then people get to vote and feel like they are the ones making the decisions, when in fact, the peoples
choices have had nothing to do with how this country is run since the mid 1800's.
Nahh, just joking.. to chuck out the folks who feel they
are unchuckable and will resist any chucking will be.. difficult. Call it a need for a coup since our power of vote has become a farce. 
