Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (38449)	6/16/2007 1:20:29 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541849

And they also shouldn't be able to do anything that affects the rest of the freaking country. If they want to screw up their own little fiefdoms, fine, but if they are going to mess with policies that affect all of us, they should listen to all of us.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (38449)	6/16/2007 3:18:36 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541849

Okay, if they don't want to listen to our comments - then they shouldn't be able to go out of state for campaign contributions...... Excellent point. As well as the point their votes, surprisingly, have an impact on all of us. Not just folk in Conn.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (38449)	6/16/2007 6:11:55 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 541849

wrote an email to Joe Lieberman when he made the suggestion to bomb Iran and wasn't surprised when the email reply was ....."thanks, but I don't read emails from out of state". Which just made me even more frustrated. Okay, if they don't want to listen to our comments - then they shouldn't be able to go out of state for campaign contributions...... Goes to the heart of the contradiction of the job description of "Senator." A job description that, more than any other issue, roiled the '87 Constitution Convention (1787, that is-yeah the Big one). Senators--even more than members of the House--are supposed to represent the interests of the entire country, not just their own states. That is why they have longer terms--to give them a longer term perspective. But the small state representatives didn't want to give up the power that the equal representation that they enjoyed under the Articles gave them. The large state representatives thought that made no sense at all, if the job of Senator was to actually represent the permanent interests of the whole country. Read the discussions of Jone 25th or so through June 30 or so for the heart of the conflict. As everyone knows, the small states won the so-called "Great Compromise," which really ought to be called the Great Cave-in, since the large states didn't get anything at all in return for giving the small states equal representation. And they laid the groundwork for the deep inequity that exists today both in the Senate and in the electoral college that gives the collective weighte of the less populated states far more power than they ought to have, and make the most of the more populated states net contributers of taxes to the general fund of the country, and most of the less populated states net recipients of federal largesse.