Economia
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Trecho: The money that fueled last year's elections came from a tiny portion of the electorate. Only one-quarter of 1% of American voters gave $200 or more in the 2002 election cycle. But their contributions added up to half of the total. Now that the McCain-Feingold law has increased contribution limits from $1,000 to $2,000, the balance of financial power will become even more top-heavy. Not only will the money primary favor well-organized economic interests, but wealthy ideologues of the right and the left also will have a field day.
Under the current system, candidates speaking for the concerns of ordinary Americans are disadvantaged. There is no guarantee that they will survive to the New Hampshire vote. As the money primary displaces the people's primary, the result will be a cycle of disillusionment. Primary voters will regularly confront an odd assortment of ideologues and apologists for special interests, but who will speak for mainstream Americans?
To break this cycle, we need to try something new: Give every voter a special credit card account containing $50 that they can spend only on federal election campaigns. Armed with their cards, voters could go to local ATM machines whenever they liked and send their "patriot dollars" to favored candidates and political organizations.
About 100 million Americans went to the polls in 2000. If they also had a chance to go to their ATMs, they would have injected 5 billion federally funded patriot dollars into the campaign -- greatly diluting the power of the private $3 billion spent by all candidates for federal office during that election. It's a small price to pay to democratize the system.
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Financial firms have dominated donor lists for all the major political candidates in the 2008 US presidential election. Fonte: The Guardian...
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“With more than 641 million credit cards in circulation and accounting for an estimated $1.5 trillion of consumer spending, the U.S. economy has clearly gone plastic.” In “Secret History of the Credit Card,” FRONTLINE® and The New York Times...
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Salário mínimo prejudica aqueles com pouca qualificação. Até Schwarznegger sabe disto Já Kerry, Bush e outros... Low-Skilled Workers Lose with Higher Minimum Wage: Newsroom: The Independent Institute Trecho: In an American Economic...
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Republicanos = Democratas? Republicanos nunca foram libertários. Menos ainda em 2003... Trechos: "The Republican Party has changed too, for the worse; it is becoming the party of big government. With the GOP in full control of the White House and...
Economia
Idéia interessante
Eis aí uma boa idéia.
Trecho: The money that fueled last year's elections came from a tiny portion of the electorate. Only one-quarter of 1% of American voters gave $200 or more in the 2002 election cycle. But their contributions added up to half of the total. Now that the McCain-Feingold law has increased contribution limits from $1,000 to $2,000, the balance of financial power will become even more top-heavy. Not only will the money primary favor well-organized economic interests, but wealthy ideologues of the right and the left also will have a field day.
Under the current system, candidates speaking for the concerns of ordinary Americans are disadvantaged. There is no guarantee that they will survive to the New Hampshire vote. As the money primary displaces the people's primary, the result will be a cycle of disillusionment. Primary voters will regularly confront an odd assortment of ideologues and apologists for special interests, but who will speak for mainstream Americans?
To break this cycle, we need to try something new: Give every voter a special credit card account containing $50 that they can spend only on federal election campaigns. Armed with their cards, voters could go to local ATM machines whenever they liked and send their "patriot dollars" to favored candidates and political organizations.
About 100 million Americans went to the polls in 2000. If they also had a chance to go to their ATMs, they would have injected 5 billion federally funded patriot dollars into the campaign -- greatly diluting the power of the private $3 billion spent by all candidates for federal office during that election. It's a small price to pay to democratize the system.
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- É Dando Que Se Recebe
Financial firms have dominated donor lists for all the major political candidates in the 2008 US presidential election. Fonte: The Guardian...
- Vota Por Fora Os Seu Cartão De Crédito
“With more than 641 million credit cards in circulation and accounting for an estimated $1.5 trillion of consumer spending, the U.S. economy has clearly gone plastic.” In “Secret History of the Credit Card,” FRONTLINE® and The New York Times...
- Riqueza Americana Em Queda
Shocking Charts And Statistics That Prove That America Is No Longer A Wealthy NationBy Michael Snyder BlacklistedNews.com How do you decide whether you are wealthy or not? Do you determine that by how much money you spend at the stores? Of course not....
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Salário mínimo prejudica aqueles com pouca qualificação. Até Schwarznegger sabe disto Já Kerry, Bush e outros... Low-Skilled Workers Lose with Higher Minimum Wage: Newsroom: The Independent Institute Trecho: In an American Economic...
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Republicanos = Democratas? Republicanos nunca foram libertários. Menos ainda em 2003... Trechos: "The Republican Party has changed too, for the worse; it is becoming the party of big government. With the GOP in full control of the White House and...