So maybe instead of redistricting, we just add new districts... Eric
-----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 6:24 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: suuure the republicans want to create a more frugal america We both agree that the number of people per Representative needs to be lowered, much like student/teacher ratio. Of course since we are discussing a ratio, that can be achieved two ways: increasing the number of Representatives or decreasing the number of represented. It isn't entirely clear to me what the optimal balance there is. Judah On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Casey Dougall > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Like we really need more politicians... > > ironically, that's exactly what we need. congress has become less and > less representative of the people, and its small size has made it easy > for a handful of people to capture the entire institution. > > in engineering terms, our democracy has failed to scale. we need to > hep it catch up. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:314549 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
