Blog - Corruption. Bribery. That's what the whole system is.

I agree with Jack Abrahoff. I think that the revolving door must be eliminated so that corruption is reduced. Congress needs to work for the people, not be what some called an “elective aristocracy.” I will push for ending “the revolving door between Congress and private interests by passing a law that bans anyone who works for Congress from ever working as a lobbyist” and I hope that others do as well.

So in order to prevent abuse and corruption, you want to… deregulate ALL THE THINGS???

It’s a cyclical problem, campaign bribery begets bailouts, bailouts beget campaign bribery. You can’t just magic away bailouts because everyone agrees their bad, good lord when has the Nation ever had such a perfect consensus(never fyi)?.

End the revolving door of lobbying, and publicly fund elections and politicians will no longer have the need of lobbyest money to fuel their campaigns, and if they are banned from lobbying the government after their done in congress that will end a whole list of corrupt situations.

It is not enough to simply say this is my ideal and please allow the magic fairy people to make it so, You need a function model under which the system can sustainably carry out that ideal given all the things set out against it.

And most people would disagree with the typical libertarian line against the Federal reserve, and the unfettered excess of unlimited capitalism on the environment, money, and labor.

Better than public funding of elections: no money in elections, period. Would love to see the President have the chutzpah to do this, actually: “I’m shutting down fundraising, returning the cash we have on hand to the contributors, and I’ll get my message out through webcasts, podcasts, blogs, and every platform that will interview me.” Something like that. Anyone with the guts to do that could win in a landslide.

British style elections?, yea I could be for that!

While I would love to see that, do you think it’s actually possible? Do you think a person who truly cares about making this country work better for the people and not the corporations or lobbyists, win an election without the financial backing? I’m only 31 so I have at least 4 years before I can “legally” run for president, but I don’t don’t know if that’s enough time to build a strong enough campaign to actually win the presidency. It will not stop me from trying but it will not be an easy task.

That:s already been part of the system I guess, there are people opposing yet they benefited from it.

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