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I wish we had a truth in politics law that would punish these guys for lying or cheating the public
by vaksel 15y ago
I wish we had a truth in politics law that would punish these guys for lying or cheating the public
- steve-howard 15y agoWho's gonna pass it?
- vaksel 15y agowell it might be done. Seems like congress people bend over backwards for companies that donate as little as $100K to their reelection campaigns. There are 535 people in congress, so we'd need to raise 53,500,000 to make it happen. A small price to pay if you think about it To be safe, might want to support both candidates, so double that number to 107 million. So if 1 out of 3 Americans donates a dollar to the goal, it could happen.
- pjscott 15y agoThe next question: who will enforce it?
- freehunter 15y agoFederal Election Commission?
- steve-howard 15y agoSo Congress would accept some money up front to stop the gravy train forever? (Noting that some Senators serve for a half century or longer at a time)
- nl 15y agoIs there a specific lie you can point to? To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America's intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy Even this isn't technically a lie. SOPA would protect some businesses and jobs from some thieves. I don't think it's a good way to go about it, and I think the other consequences outweigh the benefits, but as it stands your comment doesn't really make sense in this context.
- yock 15y agoI don't think that's exactly it (though I don't understand the down votes you're getting). The bigger issue is proving the lies. The problem we have is that people allow their leaders to be vague and imprecise. Whether or not something is truthful becomes largely based on interpretation and perspective. The art of bullshit elevated to a career.
- nl 15y ago(The downvotes kind of prove both our points, and point to the kind of behaviours we should expect from politicians: you get more votes for saying what people want you to say than what you believe the truth is.) Regarding "proving the lies" sites like http://www.politifact.com/ http://www.politifact.com/ are quite good.
- yock 15y agoPeople have started using downvotes to indicate disagreement. Ironically, on this site at least, sufficient downvotes result in that post being hidden from view. Imagine that, censoring opinions with which you (in the proverbial sense) disagree.
- Anderkent 15y agoHow would an internet-related act protect anything from any thief?
- nl 15y agoHow would an internet-related act protect anything from any thief? Under current US law - downloading sharing unauthorized digital goods is theft under at least some circumstances, and therefore any rules about truth in politics are unlikely to be activated by that statement. (insert disclaimer about how I understand that digital goods are an infinite resource and therefor making a copy cannot be theft. Please be assured I understand your objections - I am confining my point to the impossibility of "truth in politics" being used against the statement made, given the law at the current time)