Nick, the bad thing about what you say is that you are absolutely correct. This is a very bad situation. The politicans who do not want to lose the big sources of money that comes from special interest groups and lobbies are not going to be too interested in reforms. The chubby club of Democrats and Republicans will posture to the public by proclaiming that they are in favor of reform but will not actually work for reforms.
You and your friends are very wise. Getting the American people to take advantage of such information on a website will not work. There are sources of information available now which are not read by the typical American. This is the advantage that americans have over the people in the Moslem world (there are some exceptions). If your friend's idea of providing information to the public would work things would be different. At 12/9/2001, Nick McClure wrote: >This wouldn't help. We have term limits on the presidency, they are still >subject to special interest groups. > >Special Interest groups and lobbyist aren't based on people, they go after >the different parties all together. What we really need is campaign finance >reform. > >We also need a place where the American people can easily gain knowledge >about what their elected officials are voting for and against. And what >candidates are promising they are going to do. > >That we can know what the people we vote for promise to do, and then what >they do so we can make intelligent decisions based on facts. Right now this >information is hard to get and takes time to sift through. > >One of my co-workers has an idea about making a web site for this purpose. >But he is still not sure about how he can do it without funding from groups >that may seek to keep some people or things off of the site. > > >The U.S. government is to beholden to special interests with influence. > >This is > >bad. Canada may also have the same problem. One solution would be for the > >U.S. elected people to have term limitations of one term that could be > six or > >ten years. Maybe, just maybe, they will not be so beholden to those groups > >which can influence them with votes and money. The lobby industry is bad. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
