Comments on: Frederick H. Graefe Is Too Big To Fail http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/03/frederick-h-graefe-is-too-big-to-fail/ When old landmarks crumble, established roads no longer lead the way. New paths open to those with an irregular eye. Our news is unfit for print. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:41:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ramone http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/03/frederick-h-graefe-is-too-big-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-585456 ramone Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:57:48 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=17097#comment-585456 tom, why do you always tip-toe around the issue? :) i would hope it isn't too late at least to try for public funded elections. it's an uphill and maybe an impossible struggle against big bucks. with enough public disgust and anger over ever increasing numbers of loud and obnoxious T.V. election adverts, we might find support for more substantive campaigns (with a lot less money involved). tom, why do you always tip-toe around the issue? :)
i would hope it isn’t too late at least to try for public funded elections. it’s an uphill and maybe an impossible struggle against big bucks. with enough public disgust and anger over ever increasing numbers of loud and obnoxious T.V. election adverts, we might find support for more substantive campaigns (with a lot less money involved).

]]> By: Tom http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/03/frederick-h-graefe-is-too-big-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-585412 Tom Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:35:59 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=17097#comment-585412 The "answer" to all this money sloshing around in our politics is to make elections publicly funded, so that the candidates have to attain their posts by being elected according to their stances on pertinent public issues. Lobbyists should be banned from giving politicians perqs or money (though i'm sure they'd find a way around it), corporations should cease to be "persons" and elections should always have a paper trail to follow. Too late now. The damage is done and our system is in its waining years. We are now the world-wide symbol of (democracy turned police-state) corruption, torture, and climate-change inaction. Way to go U.S.A. The “answer” to all this money sloshing around in our politics is to make elections publicly funded, so that the candidates have to attain their posts by being elected according to their stances on pertinent public issues. Lobbyists should be banned from giving politicians perqs or money (though i’m sure they’d find a way around it), corporations should cease to be “persons” and elections should always have a paper trail to follow.

Too late now. The damage is done and our system is in its waining years. We are now the world-wide symbol of (democracy turned police-state) corruption, torture, and climate-change inaction. Way to go U.S.A.

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