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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (230304)	2/23/2002 5:52:15 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Interesting... that air conditioning thing. Maybe we could mandate some very large percentage of their time they be forced to actually live in their home states... say 50% or so. (Perhaps Tele-commuting could be enabled for Congressional work... and encouraged for the private economy with tax incentives... why not? We issue tax loopholes by the boat-load for every other 'pet rock' of a concept.) I think the experience of being mandated by the terms of your employment to live 50% of the year in North Dakota (let's make that the winter months), and 50% in Alabama's summer humidity, etc., might produce the closest effect to the original ' non-air-conditioned Washington experience :^) I guess for "all year-round" comfortable states such as California some kind of a "geographic rotational" feature could be appended to the rules... guaranteeing an exposure to death valley and a few mountain peaks. ... Other - perhaps more practical but less amusing solutions - could include things like the following: 1) Bust up the amalgamation of petty constraints and undemocratic rules that keep us locked into a two party embrace... and permit more responsive and focused representation to emerge... Even if our party duopoly then terms into a 'mega-verse'. 2) Or move even further towards true democracy (and a little further away from 'representational democracy') by legally encouraging citizen initiatives, and 'electronic democracy'. Who knows? Nothing stays static for ever... certainly not human institutions. Since our governmental structures are going to evolve anyway, why not push for them to evolve more in the direction of Democracy... and less in the direction of Authoritarianism and ever more 'indirect representation'. Just a thought.