Both parties have sold us out to corporate interests and billions of tax payer dollars are spent on corporate welfare (to pay for advertising over seas, pay for exporting our jobs over seas etc). We have become a country run by the corporations for the corporations. In other words we have the best government money can buy. Because candidates fill their campaign coffers with money that lobbiests raise for them (do you really think banning golf trips and dinners will change anything when lobbiest raise millions for their re-election war chests by hosting $1000+ dinners?) they have far more influence than you or I.
2006-06-13 02:50:42 · 12 answers · asked by Doglady51 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Support "Clean Money, Clean Elections" public campaign finance resolutions in your city and state. This has been passed in Maine, Connecticut and Arizona and really helps. See the links below.
Public financing of elections would be the best first step to ending corporate control. You're right that congressmen aren't selling out just for some Kobe beef and an expensive bottle of wine. Right now, elected officials must cater to corporations in order to raise enough money to win an election.
2006-06-13 03:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jeffrey J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason there is influence is because all Americans, organized or not, have a right to petition their government. If you want to end the influence, move the spending out of DC and back to the states where it belongs.
Publically financed elections are a joke and won't work. Why should I pay to put someone in office if they don't have enough clout or support to raise some money from supporters? Face it; your representative is a lobbyist for your district; you need a schmoozer to get money for local projects.
2006-06-13 03:05:36 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't. So, instead of worrying about things that can't happen, it would be better to make the process even more open to public scrutiny.
As far as railing against corporations, you would also have to ban union interests, agriculture interests, AMA, ABA, Trial Lawyers Assoc, NAACP, etc. and all other interest groups for the same reasons.
People really need to lose their blinders that keep them from seeing all the groups, beyond just corporations, with access to politicians.
2006-06-13 03:11:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop any corporate donations over a certain amount. Set ALL corporate and personal donation amounts at a max of about $1000. That is the only way and even then, you won't until you can get a group of statemen instead of self-serving egotists in Congress.
2006-06-13 02:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't. However, it will be a moot point when the world economy collapses in the next 10 years, BECAUSE of this process. It's not JUST the USA folks. It's all over the world. We're just the biggest.
2006-06-13 02:56:39 · answer #5 · answered by Quietman40 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not pay the politicians millions or billions so that they can't be bought by the big corporations?
2006-06-13 02:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make it illegal for congress to sell their influence to the highest bidder. Bribes should be illegal instead of commonplace. Same goes for other government officials fro the Feds down to local.
2006-06-13 02:56:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need to elect a whole new freshman class of representitives and senators to congress.
2006-06-13 02:55:04 · answer #8 · answered by sincityq 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don´t vote Bush!!!
2006-06-13 03:03:49 · answer #9 · answered by marikuska 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Money is the mother's milk of politics." - Jesse M. Unruh
2006-06-13 02:54:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋