Discuss your ideas for reform

[ck4829]

After it is all said and done, and if the US still exists, there will have to be serious reforms to our Government.

What are some changes would you make to the government?

Here is what I propose:

1. Judicial Nominees will require a greater majority of votes to win (Around 66%-75%)

2. It will violate federal law for a person to be Secretary of State (For the states) AND work on a candidate's campaign.

3. Ban lobbying that looks like bribes. No more golf trips, non-cash gifts, etc.

4. Severely cut back on Corporate influence on Government

5. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine

6. Repeal Faith based Executive Orders

7. Take FEMA and other emergency groups out of Department of Homeland Security

[zeemike]

1. I have some that may seem radical

But necessary in my opinion to restore faith in government.

1) A constitutional amendment that defines citizenship and applies it to only living persons.

2) A constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to vote for all citizens (perhaps combined with #1)

(3)An amendment that states that no elected official can be elected with less than 50% of the votes.

Well that is enough for now, if those three tings could be done it would change a lot and solve many of the problems we have today.

[bluethruandthru]

2. I'm not sure how this can be accomplished but..

It's obvious that our system of checks and balances isn't working. When one party controls both houses of Congress and the White House...it seems they can do anything they please...even breaking the law is okay as long as you can find one person who says "that's not against the law".
Like I said, I don't know how this can be corrected.

[Epiphany4z]

3. Clean elections

it is the head of the beast

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[DLnyc]

4. Simple and effective: require networks provide free time for campaign ads

This would radically lower the amount of money candidates need to raise, and thus decrease the influence of big donors. I believe this is done in Israel, for example, already. IIRC, this was in the original McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, but the networks lobbied to have it killed. Since the networks are licensed to use a public resource (their 'bandwidth'), I don't see why part of their license can't specify 5 minutes per night, say, of advertising to each major candidate during election season.

Since TV advertising bills run into the 100 million dollars for national campaigns, politics has become a big-money game for all involved. Win or lose, the people who manage the campaigns control huge sums of money which invites, in fact virtually guarantees, corruption in the form of kickbacks, favors, etc. and leads to a huge vested interest in not changing the system.

[JeffR]

5. Publicly funded elections

Free of black box technology, with open audit trails.