July 4th 2007 HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA:Campaign Finance Reform

Clark Dark here. On this the 231st celebration of our nation's birthday and as we begin our 3rd year YouThinkWhat is proud to present a new guest contributor. He's a member of our forum. We think his of him as brilliant, but humble and a heck of clever guy in the way he expresses his opinion. It is my pleasure to present the opinions of Dr. C. von Blum


The American electorate has lost its juice. It has been rendered moot by
the lobbyists of special interests. We have absolutely no patronage in
governments at any level. This may be an unsolvable problem, but there is
clearly no other path than to pursue meaningful campaign finance reform.

Having grown up in Chicago, I have a basic understanding of the patronage
system of government. You pays your way into the game by working for the
party and you gets a job in streets and sanitation or the medical examiner's
office.

At the Federal level you casts your bread upon the waters heavily
to both parties and collects it all back as sandwiches from the legislators.
Ultimately, the money for this patronage is extracted from us, the
consumers in the price of goods and services. Think of it as a tax levied by
campaign contributors.

If we are to have any hope of being the recipients of the patronage, we
will have to be the contributors. We probably have to amend the first amendment
in order to halt private contributions. We must finance all campaigns at
all levels publicly. It is the only way to get them to answer to us.

Submitted by Dr. C. von Blum

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