REAL democracy in america - are we ready? Let's DEMAND - NATIONAL BALLOT MEASURES

We have Ballot Measures in about 35 of the 50 states. People have used them to lower their taxes, support great ideas like California just passed a STATE BALLOT MEASURE to allow Stem Cell Research and even funded it, so now the largest scientific community in this field is moving to California and eventually they may find the cures to the most dreaded diseases. While on a National Level President Bush, who had a grade point average of "C-" in college has told the nation that this kind of reseach is immoral and would never result in any signficant breakthoughs in finding cures. When did the office of President become our moral leader? AND, even if he were the BUDDHA or CHRIST resurrected, IN A DEMOCRACY shouldn't the MAJORITY of the voters decide issues like this? There are hundreds of other examples I could use to cite the benefits of National Ballot Measures. Here are a few of my favorites. We could ABOLISH the act of LOBBYING our Congressmen and women. We could HOLD their salaries in ESCROW until they balance the budget. We could declare an end to unpopular wars by killing the Funding for the war. We could vote more money for the schools, or roads, or hospitals. We could lower our taxes or change the tax system to a FLAT TAX thus eliminating all those dreaded and time consuming tax forms we have to fill out ever April 15th. We could raise the speed limit on the Federal Highways like they do on the autobahn. We could vote to take away subsidies from the farms or the Oil Companies. We could fund a Manhattan type project to find the next Alternative Energy that would remove us from the addiction to foreign oil. We could STOP PAYING FOREIGN AID to countries like Pakistan. (We have given them almost $12 Billion of our dollars to find Osama and arrest him and instead the money has gone into a dictators Personal Swiss Bank Accounts.) We could punish any corporation who exports good American jobs overseas. We could solve the Social Security Crisis by merely raising the upper limit of income tax levels and make the wealthy pay. Warren Buffett and his cronies pays less tax than their secretaries do and it's time to make the tax system more equitable toward the middle class. I could go on and on. But, as you see, these are all things that should have been decided by our Congress decades ago. These people only vote for the causes where they have been richly compensated by the LOBBYISTS. They do NOT represent us any longer. Only a system of National Initiatives, AND THEN LETTING THE PEOPLE VOTE ON THEM DIRECTLY, thus NEUTRALIZING the impact of the lobbyists, the parties, the special interest, NATIONAL PROPOSITIONS similar to the ones I have listed above can save this country from the current trend to oblivion. Some will say I'm a dreamer. But, I know I'm not the only one. We The People are the final arbiters in this system. We are the entire reason that government exists. We don't live to serve them. THEY are appointed and elected to serve us. We abolished the RULE OF KINGS and TYRANTS when we had the 1st American Revolution. The 2nd one is starting now. We have the tools to make it happen. All we have to do is band together and then demand it.