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Re: Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

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Post by molmalo »

pmarket wrote: post #23
molmalo wrote: post #20

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Edit: Should be back up now. Sorry about that.

That was fast! Amusing :) Thanks!

Re: Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

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Post by scottdw2 »

Blarat wrote: post #18
scottdw2 wrote: post #16

I don't think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It's analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn't stop piracy. It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to…

Wouldn't the reduced size only mean that there would be fewer politicians to pay off? If you mean that a smaller government equals a government with no power, then why have a government at all?

"Reducing the size of government" means to reduce the power of government, not the proportion of representation.

Re: Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

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Post by jedbrown »

scottdw2 wrote: post #16

I don't think that public funding of elections or free advertising (see the bottom of the page) are the solutions to government corruption. That would just force bribers to be more covert. It's analogous to the fact that SOPA wouldn't stop piracy. It seems to me that the real solution is to dramatically limit the size of government, so that there is nothing to be bought, rather then just changing the currency used to…

If bribery has to be covert, it can be investigated by the legal system. In its current form, bribery is essentially legal. Think about Lessig's suggestion. http://rootstrikers.org

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu... http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu... http://lessig.org/content/av/

Re: Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

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Post by Angostura »

scottdw2 wrote: post #25
Blarat wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't the reduced size only mean that there would be fewer politicians to pay off? If you mean that a smaller government equals a government with no power, then why have a government at all?

"Reducing the size of government" means to reduce the power of government, not the proportion of representation.

Hurrah, so the people who would be bribed wouldn't be publicly accountable officials - they would be whoever we handed the power to.

Re: Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

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Post by wwwtyro »

bad_user wrote: post #11

This is a parody, but something like this could work: (1) show a list of bills that are passing Congress / the Senate (2) for each proposal, show a list of politicians that supports or opposes it (3) have a way for the user to flag politicians he wants to reward (4) plus a way for the user to setup a recurring monthly donation, distributed towards the politicians he supports, with a note pointing to your online profi…

I like something similar:

(1) show a list of bills currently under consideration

(2) allow the user to 'vote' on each bill with some monetary amount, along with a preferred direction for the legislation ('aye' or 'nay')

(3) after voting occurs, the cash is distributed evenly to the legislators that voted in the direction the user desired.

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