Our elected politicians suck ass.
Here is a list of good ideas to help them suck the RIGHT ass (mine):
Email me and I'll add yours to it: You can also send me mail via a form at the bottom.
List of Ideas that would quickly and efficiently fix our government:
Email me and I'll add yours to it. You can also send me mail via a form at the bottom.
1) Change voting system so that in a field of
N candidates on the ballot you can assign to each candidate from
0 to N-1 points exclusively.
If you have a marching band where 34% want to go north to ski; 33%
percent want to go somewhere warm, say Florida; 33% want to go
somwhere warm, say Hawaii; why should the people that want to go
some place warm loose?
2) Treat access to politicians during the work day as a right reserved for constituents and controlled by signing up ahead of time on a list. The sign up is handled by an independant office (or by a chosen representative of any different political party). There is no reason that the politican in question should be the one to control who gets to see her. They should be forced to face their bad voting decisions.
3) All political debate moved to national and local tv channels (or the web). Congressman is videotaped for 75% of his work day - the transmission is live over the web. These channels are free and anyone who wants to go to the designated trasnmit area and stand in line will have 20 minutes.
4) Ask candidates real quesions that test their decsision making skills at debates. Ask them hard ethical questions that take a long time to answer, and which THEY have to answer, not their advisors. For example have a full hour for each candidate to answer three questions for which they are not prepared. The questions should involve dealing with hard decisions and ethical dillemas.
5) Have it be legal for each person to come up and punch each elected official once every 6 months.
Tell me what you think!