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Can you put little voting arrows next to the line items so I can vote up NASA and vote down defense spending? Oh wait, representative democracy. Damn.
If only Congress had an API... POST /house-of-representatives/?district=4&action=expel POST /house-of-representatives/?district=4&action=elect&candidate=329183
Doesn't support write quite like that yet ;)
Can you put little voting arrows next to the line items so I can vote up NASA and vote down defense spending? Oh wait, representative democracy. Damn.
Just the line items of potential things to spend money on, and citizens indicating their preferences, without any emotive rhetoric to color their choices.
Since my personal discussions with people end up with a lot of agreement on how much one should be allocating to things like education, R&D, infrastructure and healthcare, but it all seems to go pear shaped when it reaches the voting floor, due to the large role external, non-voting actors can play in shaping those decisions.
I don't want a hundred million here and there to go to rubbish projects as a sop to a politician with a certain amount of influence who just received a donation to add an extension to his house.
Of course, now you have the problem of how things end up on the list to vote on :)
Can you put little voting arrows next to the line items so I can vote up NASA and vote down defense spending? Oh wait, representative democracy. Damn.
If only Congress had an API... POST /house-of-representatives/?district=4&action=expel POST /house-of-representatives/?district=4&action=elect&candidate=329183
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good idea and good instincts. I hope you have a scalable hosting solution, because the presentation and domain name are so well chosen that I can see you getting millions of page landings by tomorrow. For your own benefit, perhaps some thoughtfully-filtered Adwords or so would help cover those costs and/or make you some ca$h. For the site itself, keep the simple presentation but perhaps add + signs to allow people to…
> Good idea and good instincts. I hope you have a scalable hosting solution, because the presentation and domain name are so well chosen that I can see you getting millions of page landings by tomorrow. Thanks, I had a feeling people would like this, but had no idea that it'd be this popular. I'm migrating over to Appengine as soon as I can. > For your own benefit, perhaps some thoughtfully-filtered Adwords or so wou…
I made this last night after being inspired by http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1302494... All the calculations are done with Javascript. Let me know what you think!
Good idea and good instincts. I hope you have a scalable hosting solution, because the presentation and domain name are so well chosen that I can see you getting millions of page landings by tomorrow. For your own benefit, perhaps some thoughtfully-filtered Adwords or so would help cover those costs and/or make you some ca$h. For the site itself, keep the simple presentation but perhaps add + signs to allow people to…
Can you put little voting arrows next to the line items so I can vote up NASA and vote down defense spending? Oh wait, representative democracy. Damn.
I've often wondered what the result would be if budgets were determined by something like that. Just the line items of potential things to spend money on, and citizens indicating their preferences, without any emotive rhetoric to color their choices. Since my personal discussions with people end up with a lot of agreement on how much one should be allocating to things like education, R&D, infrastructure and healthcar…
People will vote to lower their car registration fees if you let them, then they'll complain that the roads are falling apart. It's fun to watch if you can step back and simply watch it happening.
I made this last night after being inspired by http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1302494... All the calculations are done with Javascript. Let me know what you think!