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America Needs Campaign Spending Limits |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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America’s government doesn’t implement any campaign spending limits in any of the races for America’s political offices these days. Consequently, in most of the races for America’s political offices these days (especially in the races for the higher offices), candidates who are much less qualified for the office win the race, mainly by being in high-enough-spending very unethically-high-spending campaigns; including the fact that, since the campaigns in the race need so much funding from campaign contributors that can give them so much funding, most of the campaigns of the candidates those predominantly right wing contributors like least (especially the campaigns of the left wing candidates, some of the candidates who are the most qualified for the office) have a much harder time getting enough funding from those contributors. As a result, in all of the current races for America’s congressional offices, and in the current race for America’s presidency, when Super Duper Tuesday (Feb. 5, 2008) arrives it’ll make party nominees out of right wing and centrist candidates who are in campaigns that (from the very beginning of the race) have been spending at a rate that will make any campaign that spends at that rate throughout the race a very unethically-high spending campaign by the end of the race. After Super Duper Tuesday, in the 9 months left until Election Day, most of the American media will just keep on telling the American people that those nominees in those races are the only choices they’ve got. America needs adequate campaign spending limits (including shortened election seasons and a ban on independent expenditures), to get America better government. Coincidentally, implementing adequate campaign spending limits and adequate campaign contribution limits makes publically financing political campaigns unnecessary. Posted by Gene in LA.
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