On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Jerry Bwrote: > > Representative no longer think of themselves as representatives. They > think > themselves rulers. > > Our country desperately needs some type of voter/election reform. Term > limits to prevent a ruling class, some type of voter id card or system to > prevent voter fraud, etc. I would also love to see straight ticket voting > removed and have party affiliation removed from the ballot as well. >
My earlier proposal - we go back to 1:30,000 ratio for Representatives, instead of the current 1:780,000 ratio. Give the community some voice. Why is it that Americans think their elected representatives are not listening? Because they aren't. How can they listen to 780,000 voices? Here's an interesting question: how many people work in Congress? We know about all the members, but how many people actually work on Congressional payrolls? Thousands. They just aren't elected. Changing this rule would open up elections to third party candidates and would give people the chance to voice their complaints to someone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301712 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
