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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (184562)	4/4/2006 6:39:48 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The system for electing our representative government is thoroughly broken. The interests of the citizenry have become disconnected from the actions of the representatives. Just as there is with healthcare and social security, there are pretty easy fixes for this which probably won't be applied because the politics of the problem are so corrupt. - vote by mail - 100% public funding of all campaigns for all public offices - 20 year moratorium on taking anything of any value from any individual or organization that anyone in the government had any responsibility for or oversight over while in office or employment. Representatives represent those who get them the blocks of votes and the chunks of cash required to get into office. The only people who benefit from this system are the corporate media and the well-organized politicos and their clients. The result is a thoroughly corrupt system of offices-for-purchase AKA Republican one-party oligopoly. Under these conditions, it's amazing that this government does anything at all. It's amazing that it hasn't imploded from its own incompetence and corruption. 60% increase in the national debt? No wage gains? The widest gap between rich and poor since the robber baron 1920s? BigOil enjoying record profits? Unending war against an amorphous enemy? It's amazing that there isn't more of this going on. I guess there are actually some people who are genuinely (more or less) honest and concerned about doing a good job. After all, if there is one Tauzin (pushes through outrageously stupid Medicare bill and then becomes the $2m/year BigPHarma lobbyist extreme) there are many who wish to be the next Tauzin.