"corporations have evolved into supercitizens"

[midnight]

In an era where corporations have evolved into supercitizens, fat with an unlimited supply of money from selling the overpriced to the underpaid, Justin P. Citizen can’t be heard for love or lack of money.

All that’s not to say the committee has bad ideas though. Among other things, they propose rejiggering tax rates to bring in more money and make revenue more predictable and less volatile. The want the Legislature to suck it up and plan budgets based on reality, not alchemy. They champion more money for schools, more funding for local governments to do the business of government, and investments in infrastructure. Finally, they say we need to lower the state’s debt.


The committee’s recommendations are both spot-on and stupid at the same time. Spot-on because no one with an IQ higher than a peanut’s can’t see the wisdom and stupidity of thinking that will happen in the sausage factory in Sacramento. In the end, this makes the Think Long Committee more of a Think Short and Let’s Break for Martinis Committee.

Death to Runaway Ballot Initiatives
However, even as they left the terminal illness of Prop 13 intact, they did suggest calming California’s runaway ballot initiative governance. The initiatives allowed Legislators to have interest groups draft initiatives they can use to duck responsibility for bad decisions and place responsibility on the shoulders of an increasingly polarized and less educated citizenry.




http://my.firedoglake.com/omnipotentpoobah... /


What is a runaway ballot initiative governance? Is it a way to legalize ALEC... The American Legislative Council that already secretively does this job?

For some odd reason this posted only to my journal...

[Warpy]

1. "Runaway ballot initiative governance"

means all those ballot initiatives are giving the rabble too much of a voice, even though they're badly enough worded that they can be made to do the opposite of what people are told they will do.

The last few paragraphs of that article said it all, that the people in the USA are exactly where they were when the British ruled: no direct representation, just a bunch of corporate appointed flunkies who are chosen by the top and funded by the top to compete for office. We're back to taxation without representation again with only the corporations and a few rich men well represented in Washington.