New Idea for the Legislative Branch: Just sell the seats to corporations!

[greekspeak]

I just came upon this great idea. Multi-billion dollar corporations could buy seats in the legislature!! They, in effect do it now. We have these cute little charades of elections, where people get to "vote." But of course by the time the "elections" come around, the reps are already bought and paid for by the constituents they represent: the big corporations. The big corporations keep getting more rights while the rest of us lose them. The big corporations are now running large percentages of what was once publically run. Why not just cut all the charade out and auction the seats off outright. Maybe we could get out of the debts ShrubCo has charged to the federal credit card!

:sarcasm:

[htuttle]

1. I think selling them on EBay would be more egalitarian

[greekspeak]

2. Your right...then in the last 3 seconds all the corps could snipe bids!

Thank you for your input! :hi:

[txaslftist]

3. Unfortunately not a new idea.

It's being done.

[greekspeak]

6. I know it is being done, but it is done sort of behind the scenes

Why waste all the money on scenery? Just televise the auction. No sham elections to pay for. No overhead, no manpower needed. The parties could give up this notion that they are somehow "different." Hell we would not need parties. The corps would just appoint who they wanted. Americans could go on with their lives without all the silly politics to get in the way of reality TV, mass resource consumption, and church.

[longship]

4. Branded legislative seats!!!

The Philip Morris North Carolina Senate Seat.

The Boeing Washington House of Representative Seat.

Etc.

[greekspeak]

7. Exactly! Just like stadiums!

Or just do away with state representation. Just have the TIMEWARNER seats. And the RJReynolds seats, etc.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. Can't you just picture C-SPAN

"The senator from Halliburton yields the balance of his time to the senator from Monsanto".

[Solon]

8. Actually, not so difficult to believe...

the only difference is the state names instead of corp names, Texas, Missouri, I watch C-Span and that's what I hear.

[greekspeak]

9. Why televise it? It is boring. How about some nice Reality TV!

That Geico commercial with the little house would be a good idea. Or how about two parents forced to live with their minor children in a suburban Connecticut Cape Cod style house with a dog, a mortgage and 2 SUVs. Or "BAG BOYS"...a show where a store manager has to pick a new bag boy from a whole field of youngsters who live in a house together and form factions agaisnt each others. This week, the A & P in Montpelier VT, next week the Winn-Dixie in Opeleika.

These are what REALLy matter in life.

[Fuzz]

10. This is a new idea?

[Ready4Change]

11. Senate and Congress desks should be like cars in NASCAR

They should carry all the labels of their sponsors.

And some where on the desk can be a little *. And low down, just above the carpet, can be a foot note: "* = and the American people when I have a spare moment."

:mad:

[marions ghost]

12. well ... how about

'corporate seats' and 'people seats' from each state. Advocates for the people could go up against corporate interests instead of having to divide themselves. I think it's safe to assume that corporate interests NEVER have the peoples' interests at heart.

I agree this pretense of Democracy is really damaging. If we had our own representatives to go up against our corporate adversaries, like in a court case, it would get help things out in the open. At least it would admit to reality--that corporations are only out to exploit and must be met with some kind of checks and balances that do not currently exist. Our government as it stands now only supports them at our expense.