The House of Reps is determined by population rather than equal representation, the Senate is as it should be, every state equally represented.
oh and as far as Trans fat goes, you can make a donut without, they just don't stay as fresh as long... On 12/11/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trans fat ban, is that the height of stupidity or what? Pretty soon they are > going to ban donuts. Doh! They already did! > > I think the solution to many problems of government is to increase the > number of Senators and Representatives. Multiply each by ten. The system > would be so unwieldy that nothing would ever get done, exactly as the > Founders intended! > > Seriously, I have thought for a long time that the number of people in > Congress was way too low. Think about it. Each state had two Senators in > 1800 when the total population of the US was roughly 5.3 million. We have > almost sixty times as many people now, but the same number of Senators! The > current system puts too much power in the hands of too few people. Just > imagine if there were that many more people in Congress. For one thing, you > might actually have a chance of knowing your Rep., because they would be > representing far fewer people than they are today and would have more > incentive to get to really know the people in their district, instead of > just shaking hands and rubbing elbows with the fat cats. > > > > > On 12/11/06, Gruss wrote: > > > > > > And I almost wouldn't blame the Republicans for the 'cons', I'd blame > > the neo-conservatives that took over the Republican party. > > > > This could bode very well for centrists because we've ended the debate > > on big gov't in my opinion and now have competition on fiscal sanity > > from both parties. > > > > Now if we could only find a solution to spending ... > > > > (BTW - the trans fat ban in NY is just more expansion of the State. Very > > Bad.) > > > > > -- > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:222032 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
