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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 33874" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: 2011 U.S. Budget Cut in PerspectiveWe could realize a simple democracy with a big ass computer... like they do for those lame TV shows.&nbsp; Our government is better than that, or perhaps worse than that. Our founders went out of their way to make it hard to pass laws, and the politicians have distorted the system to make it a little too easy (for them).&nbsp; amen brotherI wish the corporations were the only special interest group with a hand grabbing for the levers of power. Consider instead that we shine a little more sunlight on the actual levers of power that these elected representatives wield. We won&#039;t get better governance from campaign finance, this is just one more power struggle. We need to look at the real flaw which is spending without proper accountability.&nbsp; That is what parties do, always have and always will. If holding office becomes less of a license to steal, there will be less commercial interest in the pursuit of office.Perhaps.. I could see a return to the former system where senators were appointed by state legislatures. The apparent problem is that the power in office is corrosive to moral behavior, lets work on reducing that power with more visibility and accountability. IMO not the problem, lets address the reason they find office so desirable. It is reported that our chief executive is raising a $1B campaign chest.. maybe we should tax campaign spending <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 33874, member: 126"] Re: 2011 U.S. Budget Cut in Perspective We could realize a simple democracy with a big ass computer... like they do for those lame TV shows. Our government is better than that, or perhaps worse than that. Our founders went out of their way to make it hard to pass laws, and the politicians have distorted the system to make it a little too easy (for them). amen brother I wish the corporations were the only special interest group with a hand grabbing for the levers of power. Consider instead that we shine a little more sunlight on the actual levers of power that these elected representatives wield. We won't get better governance from campaign finance, this is just one more power struggle. We need to look at the real flaw which is spending without proper accountability. That is what parties do, always have and always will. If holding office becomes less of a license to steal, there will be less commercial interest in the pursuit of office. Perhaps.. I could see a return to the former system where senators were appointed by state legislatures. The apparent problem is that the power in office is corrosive to moral behavior, lets work on reducing that power with more visibility and accountability. IMO not the problem, lets address the reason they find office so desirable. It is reported that our chief executive is raising a $1B campaign chest.. maybe we should tax campaign spending :-). JR [/QUOTE]

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