On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:22 -0800, Steven Thompson wrote:
>
> The courts have ruled that 'money is speach' when addressing campaign
> finance laws. My position is to eliminate the need of raising big money to
> get your positions heard.
There is only one effective way to decrease the amount of money needed
in politics. Decrease the demand. This means decreasing the power of the
politicians. The more power they have, the higher the demand and thus
the higher the price.
Yes, it becomes a chicken and egg issue.
> So, that's my two cents, tell me yours... How would you work to eliminate
> the total sell-out of our most precious right, our right to vote in a
> democratic, free election?
We never had a right to a democratic election. ;)
--
Random Fortune of the moment:
Well, he didn't know what to do, so he decided to look at the government,
to see what they did, and scale it down and run his life that way.
-- Laurie Anderson
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