Friday, October 29, 2010

What must change

Very few Americans are pleased with our current political system. For lack of a better word, it's broken. Only a few of its elements need to be changed in order to get it back on track and make it work for the good of the nation and for turning our fortunes around. Here's my prescription:

1. Get money out of the electoral process; campaign should be government financed.
2. Change terms: Congress and presidential terms are too short; bring them to five year with a two term limit. Senate can stay at six, but also make it a two term limit.
3. Encourage other parties (Green, Tea Party, you name it,) to break the two-party monopoly
4. Get God out of politics and government
5. Get our elected officials to work together and stop bickering.

These changes are drastic, imply tinkering with our “sacred” constitution; they're also simple and would work. This is correct, I'm a dreamer.

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