On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Gruss wrote: > > Do you really not see that the policies that you pushed for 8 years > have created the very problem you're now suggesting we need to solve?? > > Dude the answer isn't a larger government, the answer is to make > government work the way it was designed: >
Wait, you are telling me that larger government isn't the answer? Are you not the guy who has been cheering on Obama's quest to spend trillions of dollars and vastly expand the size and scope of government in a whole range of new endeavors? The government is already huge, but it is mostly run by unelected bureaucrats rather than elected representatives. You think Bush was a king? He couldn't even get his own CIA to stop leaking secrets to the press during wartime. Making government work the way it was designed means putting more power back into local hands. A greater number of representatives does three major things: 1. Creates an opportunity for third-party candidacies to succeed at the federal level. We're better off than China with only one political party, but the minority has been increasingly disenfranchised over the last twenty years. More parties = more voices. I have no doubt that Greens, Libertarians, and others could actually win seats in a bigger House. What we should see is a splintering of the two big parties in favor of smaller parties, and the creation of coalitions at the federal level. It would change the dynamics of the House completely. 2. Provide a local voice in the federal government. If we went to 1:30000 ratio, it would provide individuals with far greater access to a federal representative. 3. It would make it far harder and more expensive for special interest groups and lobbyists to game the system. If you only need 10 or 20 votes to go your way to get something passed, that's a piece of cake, but if you need 200 or 400 votes to go your way, you have a much tougher task. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296334 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
