Im really getting sick of the half-ars politics in the USA

[Mr Khan]

HappySqurriel said:

Mitsurugi said:

Simple solutions:

Everything politicians say to the public is recorded, their held accountable for any claim or promise they make to the people. Penalties include being fired (or impeeched), foreiting assets, steep fines and jailtime.

Major decisions and pieces of legislation can be vetoed/overturned by the people and must meet their approval in order to be passed. People have to wait 6-12months to for a repeal to a passed Bill/act ( in case they change their minds before the bill/decision has taken affect). They can ammend or modify bills/acts at any time.

too bad these will never come to fruition in America (looks at Europe)

I think it is much simpler than that ...

Simply make all communications between elected officials and their staff part of the public record after 6 weeks, with the only exceptions being when the communications are about private information about an individual or if it would violate national security; and in both cases these communications would have to be reviewed by a non-partisan committee and a non-partisan auditor. I could be wrong but I suspect that when all the wheeling and dealing was made public the ability for elected officials to work against the best interests of the public to benefit special interest groups would be eliminated.

The simpler route there would be to socialize Federal elections: the government guarantees you a certain amount of ad space in various venues that you may use as you see fit, but it's funded strictly by the government and will give equal voice to both candidates, and thus makes sure that politicians don't have to go grubbing to various large lobbies so that they can acquire the money necessary to remain competitive.