Socorro When did, ?of the ppleoe , by the ppleoe & for the ppleoe?, get lost? When the corporate sector took over the government with their lobbyists, money and influence. The entire system of democracy has been co-opted by the corporate sector and our roll as citizens has been side-lined. We vote, but they shape policy and have our representatives in their pockets.You'll notice that in the K-street lobbying firms, NONE represent the citizens of our country (only the CEOs of corporate America). With no one going to bat for us, what chance do we have to fend off the bad policies and awful bail-outs robbing us of our future and almost certainly leading us to third world nation status before long? Watch how the environmental bills coming up end up being a windfall for the coal and mining concerns. Look at the deterioration of the health care bills hell, they wouldn't even consider single payer health plans!It would be great if we could just vote out the bad ppleoe, but we've tried that time and time again, but once in office these elected representatives only stand for the corporations and high-powered ppleoe who have the money to back them for re-election! The system doesn't work as designed any more, and trying to fix it from within is at best naive.It's not that i'm calling for armed revolt (which is inevitable the way they're going) but if we no longer have any influence and only get the bill for and have to live in a country which no longer cares about our well-being, spies on us, taxes us and not the corporations, bails out the big industries but lets our jobs go overseas, kills the electric car in favor of the Hummer and then expects us to bail out the auto industry, keeps wages down but bails out the financial Ponzi scheme industry, what else should we expect? Are we supposed to just roll over and let this continue? If so, we're gone. Welcome to Zimbabwe.