Comments on: Paul Scott Turns Obama Fundraiser Controversy Into A Documentary

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 03:50:00 +0000

Please, no term limits.

Leave the high quality people in the job as long as they are willing and able.

We need to term people out at the ballot box. States and districts need to be willing to take a close look at who they’ve elected and replace the duds.

We’ve learned why term limits are a bad idea in California. There’s a constant turnover so that no one knows how the system works and lobbyists end up having too much influence, writing too much of the legislation.
I want some of those old grey warhorses to provide continuity.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 02:54:00 +0000

And term limits!

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:15:00 +0000

It’s going to stay this way until we tackle campaign financing.

Changing the system won’t be easy. It might even take a amendment to the Constitution. But if we don’t make the change money will continue to play too large a role in how the government runs.

By: Jim Seko

Jim Seko — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:07:00 +0000

It seems that only rich people with lawyers know how to bribe politicians in a way that does not draw attention. Us regular folk can’t influence politicians who discreetly receive millions of dollars in bribes from rich people.

By: Ronald Brakels

Ronald Brakels — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:33:00 +0000

I was surprised and kind of digusted when I found out that actors at conventions sign autographs for money. Not that I thought actors weren’t compensated for their time, I just assumed their pay came out of the ticket price to get into the convention. I assumed that fans at least wanted the illusion that their favorite actors weren’t venial. Obviously, I should be vastly more disgusted by people paying for access to politicians in a representative democracy. However, I think I blew my political disgust gasket a long time ago and so I feel more eye rolling resignation than anything else. Politicians of the world, I want to feel disgusted again, please try harder. No, don’t try harder at being more disgusting. I want you to work harder at being ethical so that when you are caught not being ethical I will feel a good, healthy sense of disgust again. At the moment I am suffering from disgust fatigue. I think it settled in the last time a representative democracy invaded a country to liberate it from tryanny and only just by shear coincidence it happeed to have massive oil reserves. I do realize that incentives politician labour under will almost certainly need to be changed for me to get my disgust back on.

By: Ivor O'Connor

Ivor O'Connor — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:54:00 +0000

I hope to see this film soon.