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Is there a depressing channel on the Sift yet?

Concentrated benefits, dispersed costs. Democracy is a scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgJ644LPL6g

Concentrated benefits, dispersed costs: Why politicians don't cut spending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uR4lqa7IK4

Nice... my buddy did the visuals and animation for this.

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My solution, since we can't get congress to govern themselves (meaning there will never be a federal law against buying congress) we should use local elections to pass local/state laws making it a felony for your representative to accept any money from anyone outside the area they represent, or to accept over a certain amount from a single donor, including gifts, salaries, free work (even volunteered work), perks, travel, food, vacations, or anything else with any value, punishable by immediate removal from office and mandatory jail time.
In California at least, we have the option to write our own laws and have them voted on directly by the populace (ballot initiatives)...real democracy...I know that's not true everywhere, but where it is it should be taken advantage of and used to fix problems our representatives refuse to fix. It's the only solution I see being possible...and even then only possible for some of us.

http://www.wolf-pac.com/

There ARE things we can still do... Does anyone really think that will be the case in 10 years?

Here in Washington state we have ballot initiatives too.

When the government found out in 1993 it could ignore voter passed initiatives if a judge would declare them illegal or unconstitutional. They repeatedly did so.
I601, I695, I690, I1053, I1185 all voted on and passed only to be overturned by the state. What did they ALL have in common? They would have limited the governments ability to raise taxes.
Don't get me started on the new ballot system designed to keep third parties out.

If there is a way to fix the system the system will patch out that flaw.

Perhaps it's against the constitution (either fed or state) to take away the power of government to determine taxation rates. That would make sense, otherwise the public would obviously vote to limit/remove taxes and the government would go bankrupt. Well written initiatives can work, poorly written one's often get struck down.