On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:09, Collins Richey wrote: > > The only way to counteract the problem is to have a well educated > > population that is well informed and to remove the "Big Money" out of > > the election cycles. > > You'll get no argument here. If elections were publicly financed and > the election cycle limited to six weeks, there would be fewer fat cats > in Washington.
A friend of mine once proposed that all of the Congress-people should be moved back to their home states where they would have to do their work remotely. Possibly meet for a week at a time once or twice a year. This would allow them to a) spend more time with the people they serve, listening to local problems, and b) less time to rub elbows and make deals with their cronies. Sounded like a good idea to me. Maybe the time has come. The government of this country is broke and broken. _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
