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Originally Posted by GX  Very interesting idea William Blue! For the rest of the board, I will give a quick summary. WilliamBlue suggests that the $3 dollars we use to check off on our tax returns for a presidential campaign fund goes instead to create a lobby that represents american citizens and keeps the politicians in check. See the details on his link. Im all for it WilliamBlue, the one monkey wrench I see in it is who will decide what type of poll questions this lobby ask the citizens. You will have republicans, democrats, greens, native americans, black panthers etc. wanting to formulate poll questions skewed to their interests that they wish to present to the public e.g. should we allow the lakota indians to secede? Should we free Mumia? Should we save the whales? There are thousands of issues and questions out there. See where Im getting at here...Your thoughts? |
The poll I envision would be one that had both sides of the argument, just as the ones they have on measures that they present to you at the voting booth. One of my pet peeves is the internet fast lane that the corporations that own the back bone wish to impose on us, the ISP's are already being charged for the bandwidth they are using, now these corps what to charge the individual websites and they claim it is needed for growth, well I call it double dippying and it is ludicrous that our government would even think about it, but atlas the power of money...<rant off>