They encourage people to have kids and the single individuals are ignored while they push family, family , family.

They create programs like the eeoc, social security, fmla, flsa, doj, dol, workmen’s compensation, osha and when you excercise your rights they make it so they punish the person for filing with any of these programs.

If you file workmen’s compensation they give the employer the right to cancel your health insurance. You file workmen’s compensation and then need to file social security and they have a “Offset Provision” that social security deducts from the 66 2/3 that is approved after being forced to go to a hearing because the employer reports your injury as being non compensable when in fact it was compensable. So the social security deducts money from the employee that is barely making ends meet to begin with. It’s just another way to punish the employee for filing with any of these agencies. Way to go Congress!

The first President for whom I voted was Lyndon Johnson and the last President for whom I voted was Barack Obama. Throughout this time I have been staunchly Democrat at local, state and national levels. But, recently, I have been so disappointed and angry with the realization that Republicans and Democrats have morphed into two wings of the same bird: the Corporate State. While the rhetoric between these two parties may diverge, their actions demonstrate too much similarity, too much togetherness, and equal amounts of corruption. I do not think this was always true. In the Sixties and Seventies, I believe we Americans were still presented with options when we went to vote. Over the last three decades, though, corporate non-persons have succeeded in stealing away American democracy through bribery and fraud from real people until we have the current corporate oligarchy. I really, truly had hope in 2008 that policies would change under President Obama, but he is continuing the push to drill-drill-drill and mine-mine-mine for energy despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster, is willing to consider more tax cuts to the rich (employers’ payroll taxes, for example), to conduct illegal and unpopular military actions, to negotiate trade deals which eliminate jobs for Americans and impoverish workers in trading countries, etc. It seems we, the American people, need to initiate a new Revolution to restore democracy.

However, despite my feelings about the “Parties,” I think highly of you because you have championed same solutions and policies. Maybe I have not agreed with every decision/vote/approach you have advocated, but I feel we agree more often than not. I want to invite you to form a new “Party” — one with a wiser, ethical agenda to pursue, one which will act rather than promise to solve problems and reform injustices and will not vacillate or cave in to hysterical tactics of opposition. Oh, I know all the arguments against this: 1) third (or other) parties have always failed to wield real influence in the past and to get elected to high office; 2) third (or other) parties, by drawing votes away from one candidate, actually elect the other candidate, just like the people who choose not to vote; 3)more than two parties would make government too unwieldy to work by necessitating coalitions — so how do some European democracies function? But these arguments are exactly what both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party want voters to believe because that BELIEF maintains the two-party system. Democracy can exist with more than two parties or even without parties at all. If the basis for any vote were the best congruence of agendas between the voter and the candidate, whatever that candidate’s affiliation or non-affiliation was, instead of a decision as to which of two “evils” was the least, then actual majority opinion on issues could be represented. As it currently is, a mere 2% of the population controls government because only that 2% is wealthy enough to corrupt politicians of both parties. Furthermore, coalitions among multiple parties that fluctuate depending on which issues or problems were being addressed would more closely reflect the diversities of opinions on these issues in the actual population.

I do not want to violently overthrow the government. As Gandhi and Dr. King both knew, violence only begets more violence. But I DO want to cure the schizophrenia that is infecting the two-party system. I DO want to purge both the American government and the American spirit of corruption by exterminating corporate control and propaganda. I invite you to join me in this effort. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss specific issues/problems and offer approaches/solutions. Please read and see how much you agree or disagree with me and then decide.

There was much more to my letter; it ran to 21 single-spaced typed pages. However, what we all need to do now is form a NEW PARTY and take back the government for the people!