I want BIG GOVERNMENT.

[annabanana]

I want it big enough and strong enough to break up the media monopolies. I want it big enough and strong enough to go and get the stolen swag BACK from the offshore shelters. I want it big enough and strong enough to NATIONALIZE THE FED and get these greedy conscious-free bloodsuckers off our necks...

[patrice]

1. I WANT BIG GOVERNMENT too!!!

[terisan]

2. How about a lean and mean government unit as a anti-corporate fighting force nt

[annabanana]

4. rummy?

is that you?

:P

Sorry, "lean & mean" has bad connotations for me. I want boots on the ground on this one.

[Donnachaidh]

6. lean and mean is an impossibility right now

And that name is one that has historically been used by repukes, and it always meant the exact OPPOSITE. They'd offer *lean and mean* in their campaigns, and then create jobs for their incompetent family members, cronies, or campaign contributors.

Personally, I want a big government ready to tear the throat out of globalist companies dragging the workforce into the same pay scale as third world countries. I doubt we'll get that either, but we've been told to *hope*, right?

[notesdev]

3. Government doesn't need to be big to do all that

It just needs to be working for the people of this country rather than its various corporate sponsors.

Making it bigger before correcting the corporate sponsor problem might not have the results you desire...

[KharmaTrain]

5. I Want Efficient Government...

We need not to destroy the large corporations, but force competition...REAL competition. Use stimulus money for small business loans to sprout thousands of new companies, jobs and opportunities. It's time to return to Main Street from Wall Street...empower new technologies to flourish and a diversity of new goods and services. It's putting money into a lot of hands rather than the "chosen few" and to use government to benefit people that in the end will benefit the government. The more people working, the more taxes come into tax coffers, the more homes are bought which covers property taxes and business generating sales and other taxes. We got a taste of it in the 90's...incomes rose and the country grew stronger. It was all squandered after November, 2000.

Deregulation of the media is one of my dreams of the next few years...if the media survives its own greed and ensuing destruction. It's time to restore the public airwaves to local ownership and voices...encourage minority ownership and invest in new media. For nearly 30 years we lived with greed as good...now it's time to restore regulation and responsibility and with it the ability of many, not just the few to survive and prosper.

Cheers...

[Donnachaidh]

7. large corporations KILL competition.

They need to be broken up so they are NOT *too big to fail*. And if they cannot be broken up they need to be taxed to the teeth, and regulated to within a gnat's eyelash.

Big corporations got us into this fix. They will NOT allow competition.

[annabanana]

8. if the media is "deregulated" there will be nothing left of this

country but ashes... It needs to be broken up into many, non government contract bidding companies..

[KharmaTrain]

10. It's Already Ashes...

Radio is on virtual life support. Their advertising revenues keep collapsing as what few remaining advertisers there are out there go to TV, Cable and the Internet first. The large companies like Cheap Channel gobbled up thousands of stations and took on billions in debt that have imploded over the last year...they overpaid and now can't find anyone to dump their losses on. We could see radio stations going silent in the months ahead as "deregulations" strangles the life out of small and medium market operations.

It's the end result of years of deregulations that rolled back a system that had been very efficient. The need is to reinstitute the number of stations a company can own in a market...back to 2 or 3 from the current 8...shorten license renewals back to 3 years, reinstitute non-trafficking rules that forces an owner to maintain the station for three years before they can sell it...give preference to local or minority groups in both the granting of licesnes and transfers. The bottom line is to bring new voices onto the airwaves and return it to the local roots where it has always done best. In essence, dereguation in its own right.

Cheers...

[tomreedtoon]

9. I want an Impossible Missions Force government.

People who are bright, talented, and are completely unknown. They sneak in, they destroy the media monopolies, they entrap the rich bastards with sex and then set loose their angry and homicidal wives, they indebt the banks to the Mafia and then remove their payoff money which brings a whole squad of people named Guido to wipe them out.

Doing it with politics doesn't work. Good, competent secret agents, with no desire for glory or Newsweek cover photos, could work. And the only way the whole thing can really work is if a bunch of evil people end up dead.