Campain Contributions are the ROOT of CORRUPTION

[CaptnKirk]

Don't you think ?

 

[BOBDN]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Don't you think ?

Yeah, I think. I guess this is the Republican's idea of Homeland Security. Can't find the money to pay for security so they might just as well add a few provisions to help their well heeled contributors.

Disgusting.

 

[lozina]

I'd say lobbying groups are a much bigger source of corruption

 

[BOBDN]

Originally posted by: lozina
I'd say lobbying groups are a much bigger source of corruption

Quite true. However it takes a little from all your contributors to reach $200,000,000.

 

[rudder]

Thats almost as bad as renting the Lincoln bedroom to the Chinese.

 

[Linflas]

Nope the root of corruption is the +/-50% plus people that cannot be bothered to get involved and actually vote. Notice how quickly a politician will drop even their most prolific cash backers the moment a whiff of scandal that may actually rouse voters surfaces.

 

[JellyBaby]

Linflas is right, we are asleep and apathetic at best when we're awake. That's a big part of the problem.

Publicly financed elections might be the way to go. I almost want to go so far as to eliminate congressional salaries altogether. These adjustments would change the reason people enter politics. Then congress wouldn't grossly embarrass the nation by passing such fine works as the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, a real beauty.

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: JellyBaby
Linflas is right, we are asleep and apathetic at best when we're awake. That's a big part of the problem.

Publicly financed elections might be the way to go. I almost want to go so far as to eliminate congressional salaries altogether. These adjustments would change the reason people enter politics. Then congress wouldn't grossly embarrass the nation by passing such fine works as the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, a real beauty.

Politicians are not spending millions of dollars on campaigns for a $160K a year job. The real money is in PAC's, campaign contributions and the info. you "hear" while in DC. Eliminating the salary would probably not do much.

As long as money is considered speech, real reform probably isn't possible.

JMAO

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Campaign contributions should be limited only to coming from individuals, not groups or coporations, and they should be capped at a reasonable amount.

 

[JellyBaby]

Politicians are not spending millions of dollars on campaigns for a $160K a year job. The real money is in PAC's, campaign contributions and the info. you "hear" while in DC. Eliminating the salary would probably not do much.

Damnit.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Campaign contributions should be limited only to coming from individuals, not groups or coporations, and they should be capped at a reasonable amount.

Canada has almost gone this far, Corps and Orgs are limited to a few thousand of $. I agre though, they should have NO influence on the electoral process, if they need something they can line up and petition between elections like everyone else.

 

[IamDavid]

"Campain Contributions are the ROOT of CORRUPTION"

Not true. The root of the problem is the greedy people who accept them.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Money is the root of all evil. Evil are those who take the money from Campaign Contributions - and sell out the American Public.
Put some of them in prison for accepting graft, and you've taken a step in the right direction.

Was the Congresman from Ohio who was convicted any worse than the rest ?
Or did James Traficant just get caught - or did he refuse to share the booty.

Message to America: "Share the Booty"
(Hear that J-Lo, share the booty)

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Campaign contributions should be limited only to coming from individuals, not groups or coporations, and they should be capped at a reasonable amount.

Hear, hear! Plus, groups and corporations should be prohibited from running "issue ads" or other indirect forms of politicing.

I think the whole concept of a corporation having the same rights as individuals is fatally flawed. I don't know what problems it fixes, but it completely tilts the system in favor of large corporate interests. Free speech is for biological individuals, not legal fictions.