money and politics

[gsh]

The deficit commission is starting to leak at least some of the recommendations. I took a look, and while they take direct aim at civil servants, they seemed to have a pretty good grasp of the problem with social security, and had a set of 8 recommendations that, taken together, look like they will solve the problem.

However, one of the recommendations calls for a tax increase, which means no republicans will support it, and
one recommendation calls for a benefit cut, which means no democrats will support it.

Back to the drawing board I guess.

Comments

[draakken.livejournal.com]

Money puts ads and opinion on the street. True or not, the advertising helps sway the voters.

You can't put the image forward without money. You might in a small town, running for a small office be able to do a campaign on personal finance. However, any substantial state level office is going to take 100's of thousands to millions of dollars to mount an effective campaign.

I agree that more people need to vote, but I don't know how you motivate/inspire people to vote.

[mtnwlf.livejournal.com]

Me neither. *sigh*