If you were to think about it, there are logical reasons to allow the "people" to participate in the decision-making processes of government, for how can it be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people if the people—the masses of ordinary working people—are deliberately excluded from participation in the political decision-making processes of government, including how their hard-earned tax money should be spent.

But there are even better reasons for Americans to make such change; reasons that are morally, ethically, and economically sound.

1. By ommission, the Constitution deliberately excludes the common people from the political decision-making processess of government.

2. As most professonal politicians have always been corrupt or corruptible, the American political system has evolved into a totally corrupt system.

3. We abuse the planet that nourishes us.

• we pollute the earth.
  
• we violate its beauty by mining for coal and drilling for oil rather than researching renewable fuels.
  
• we are addicted to fossil fuels. Actually our technologies are addicted--individuals aren’t.
  
• we allow fertile soils to flow off into the ocean.
  
• we use harmful chemicals on the soil.
  
• we abuse food animals. Actually food corporations abuse food animals.
  
• we eat harfmful foods that haven’t been approved by proper government agencies.
  
• we take harmful medicines that haven’t been approved by proper government agencies.
  
• we discard harmful pharmaceudicals into the sewer systems that inevitably harm river environments.
  we pollute and overfish the oceans
  
• we abuse our fresh water supplies, which are fast disappearing.
  
• we have allowed the republic’s infrastructure to decay. Bridges, tunnels and railroads must be rebuilt.

4. We have seen many jobs disappear amid claims that many will not return to the republic. We possess too many people.(there is a relation between the size of the American population—
people looking for work, and jobs available).

5. Our Constitutions frowns upon government businesses competing with private enterprise. It’s why, for two hundred years, all profits from commercial activities have gone into private pockets and the "people’s government" has had to borrow money and go into debt to execute its social programs.

6. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. A current issue of Time Magazine claimed a case against home ownership. What it didn’t say but what the article actually meant was that working Americans should no longer expect to make enough earnings to easily afford a home and should leave home ownership to those people who do make larger sums of money—but who in our estimation—don’t necessarily earn it.

7. The possibility for nuclear war is much greater today than in 1945, as many small nations now have nuclear capabilities.

8. The Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of India today are the fastest growing industrial nations in the world. This is because each has millions upon million of unemployed people willing to work for minimum wages. China possesses 1.3 billion people and India 1.18 billion. Of course, neither country became an industrial giant on its own, both are totally dependent upon giant corporations that fled the U.S. and other countries to take advantage of cheap labor costs. These corporations, however, supplied whatever modern technology they possessed to their new host countries.
9. It's important, however, the world recognize that The Peoples Republic of China is ruled by a group of men with a history of empire building and possession of a philosophy that can almost guarantee these men will have their great armies invade the U.S. when they are certain:

• the U.S. has totally squandered its military might in the Near East wars,
  
• the U.S. is unable to rely on their spoiled younger generations to successfully fight a war,
  
• the U.S. is financially bankrupt and unable to raise funds from other countries.

The citizens of fictional America reject the concept of exclusive control of the republic's production resources by "private" corporations and have authorized their New Government (in Open Forum) to remove all services and products from private control that they have deemed essential to their welfare. Americans have specifically requested these services and products be removed from corporations that have stolen from them over the years, and proven themselves to be dishonest. They have also demanded their New Government establish public financial and banking systems, for they know that unless the people, and not private enterprise, control society's money and banking systems it would not be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

In this way the profits from the rental of American lands and the American financial and banking systems go into the public Treasuries to be used for the needs and wants of the people, and not absorbed by individuals or groups. These changes eliminate New Government's need to borrow funds from outside sources and gives to the people the power to invest public money as they see fit.

Fictional Americans are not against "Free Enterprise." They understand a vibrant economy is essential to the welfare of their republic. But they also realize that the vibrancy of an economy comes from the entrepreneurship of its individual citizens; of individuals and families starting and operating local retail shops or regional manufacturing plants. They believe that the transformation of the U.S. from a land of millions of small local entrepreneurs into one of handfuls of large corporate conglomerates with hundreds of millions of bored employees has not only been destructive to national cohesiveness and true democracy, but highly unfair to American citizens. They have, therefore, instructed their New Government to break up large conglomerates and to establish programs favorable to small neighborhood entrepreneurs.

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