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Kass’ Couch: Are You Drowning in Cable News?
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Putting America’s College Grads to Work: AmeriCorps and Our Time
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Dylan Ratigan Mad as Hell His Epic Network Moment We've got a real problem...this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America.
Im Mad As Hell How About You Yesterday, on TV, I exploded. I spent two minutes giving a primal yell at our political system, demanding the extraction of our money and dignity end. It was my most heartfelt and emotional moment on television, ever.
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Americas Mad as Hell Moment I'm mad as hell. And according to the piles and piles of responses I got after my rant, so are you. This is not a joke, trillions are being extracted from our economy by greedy bastards. And if we don't fix this problem, then we'll end up see
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looking forward to hearing something about electoral reform. Not just bemoaning partisanship.
I think No Labels is a good start. However, we should be aware of the useful tool of science and statistics to determine the validity of policies past, present, and future. This is a good foundation for crafting policy, regardless of Ideology.
ok, this is great, but now how do we moderate the deep pocketed big money special interests who gives a rats ass about what the "American People" want? SUre you got the Left, the Right, and those inthe middle, but they all take a back seat to the politicians when the monied special interests speak and demand.
How the hell will this "no labels ra ra group" really effect THAT aspect of government domination in our system??????????????????????????
Good open discussion with different points of view, and that is good. Takes the curse off misunderstood ideas.
Hey this is my idea I'm suing…LOL Good for you guys.
I've been ranting for the past few years that the solution to the vast majority of our problems could at least start to be solved by abolishing the party system in this country, and getting the cooperations out of politics.
The idea is to first encourage candidates to run without a party, just based on their own merits. No 3rd Party BS either. Just John Doe vs Jane Doe (and how ever many other candidates that qualify to be on that ballot), their website (and other media) which will clearly state their platform, and people deciding to vote for a person based on….wait for it…their qualifications.
We get enough people of this mindset into Congress, then they can start to push laws that will abolish any cooperate participation in campaigns/elections. Set up provisions that would give some starting funds to any qualified candidates, in order to start a website which lists their platform, and provides a nice easy way to start raising grass-roots funds. We also need to have laws which state the max amount any one candidate could raise for any given campaign….A salary cap if you will. That way all candidates in all races will be on the same financial footing. No candidate should have any advantage just because they were able to obtain more funds to run their campaign.
Just the plan in a nutshell but I think you get the idea.
Wouldn't mind getting rid of term limits too. The whole incumbent thing becomes much less of an advantage, at least from a monetary prospective, if the "Salary Cap" idea is implimented. Then with longer terms/term limits the people we elect to run things can actually focus on running things for a while, and not be in constant campaign and fund raising mode.
We have lost our way, cooperate control is at the core of it. We can fix this, or it will come to this:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/no_act_of_reb…
It would be nice to have these imformed summits more often..before next elections…for all of our sakes!..LOL nice to watch this thanks for hosting
smart people discussing a topic? I think this idea has a future
I don't think there are Democratic ideas or Republican ideas…. there should be only the RIGHT IDEA.
Experts should be consulted for almost any decision.
Politicians should work 10 hours a day for 4 years. 30 days vacation (campaigning included).
If they are tired they should leave. There shouldn't be a Lame Session ever again.