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Legacy @
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:11 PM
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<p>Well, it sounds like change needs to happen to arrive at "A 21st Century Intelligent, Effective Legislative Branch".</p>
<p>Step One identify what needs to change, Step Two Make Change.</p>
<p>Plan, Do, Check, Action. Let's stop terrorizing the terrorists and terrorize congress for awhile. We got two years to hand over a winning team.</p>
<p>Didn't President Bush want this Energy Bill for 5 years, what is the hold up?</p>
<p>Congress Push your vote button, America Push your vote button. There is no need for a Line Item Veto, this is an Intelligent Legislative System.</p>
<p><a href="http://69.51.144.228/community/congressreform.asp?hdr=PCEC">http://69.51.144.228/community/congressreform.asp?hdr=PCEC</a></p>
<p>Federal Center, Battle Creek, Michigan first installation of the Constituent Legislation & Voting Server.</p>
<p>On your Mark, Get Set, Go...</p>
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Legacy @
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:11 PM
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A great overview and plan.<br /><br />Federal government has way too much power. More power needs to be remanded back to state and local level so citizens feel and are more empowered. Empowered citizens are great watchdogs and will automatically lead to more efficient government.<br /><br />We need common sense government and action instead of words.<br /><br />CommonCents
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Legacy @
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:11 PM
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Re: A 21st Century Intelligen, Effective Legislative Branch<br /> On p. 9 you may mean to say $15,300/yr "per student".<br /> On p. 10 you refer to a DOE project that has increased projected cost from $4B to $11B. Please idenitify this project so the reader can judge for himself. The Webb Telescope is a worthy project. However, after working as a summer faculty fellow at NASA Johnson I was disgusted by the waste, greed and perhaps corruption of NASA management. I have not had any contact with NASA since then. I can only hope the that the new NASA administrator, a scientist, will correct this situation.<br /><br />I attended your talk at Mount Union last night. You claimed not to be a politican, yet you think and speak like a politican. I worked at a German research center from 2002 to 2005. My German, Dutch, Russian and Belegian co-workers liked to needle me about American politicans and policys. Many of them were educated at our finest schools: Princeton, MIT, Berkley, etc. I had to agree with some of their criticisms. They observe that there is more political diversity in representative government in Europe than in America. I had to agree. Unless one runs as a Republican or Democrat, one has little chance of winning in the USA. The problem is the structure of the electoral system, which is circa 18th century. This is compounded by the practice of gerrymandering. No one really wants to compete, NO ONE. Dems and Repubs both want "safe" districts. As a consequence, there is little of the "free exchange of ideas" that people like Clinton and Bush are so fond of citing. Many years on my ballot there was only one choice for Congressman, Jim Trafficant! Why? Why can't we have a real choice not arranged behind closed doors by pols and lawyers in the state capital? <br /><br />If you really want "Intelligent, Effective" government in the 21st century, your proposals aren't going to change anything unless you address the structure of the electoral system and gerrymandering. The alternative is to merely continue the cycle of accumulation of power by one party until their greed and corruption brings the other party to power (for another cycle). One of my German co-workers, Hartmut Gerhauser, was fond of reminding me that "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". The same principle is true of American as well as German politics.<br /><br />Best regards, <br />Fred
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