Jobs!
This political cartoon got me thinking this morning. Our Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker went out East and come back with 33 million in campaign funds for his Wisconsin Governor recall election bid. 33 million dollars in one day! From outside of Wisconsin! From just a few people! If he would donate that 33 Million dollars to Wisconsin citizens instead of spending on mud-slinging TV ads, Wisconsin citizens would definitely benefit more. After a quick calculation, I figure his 33 million dollars would buy about 1,320,000 library books for Wisconsin citizens. Or, fund the K-12 education of over 3,000 Wisconsin children. How long would 33 million dollars feed the Wisconsin homeless? Years for sure. What about the state’s veterans? That 33 million dollars would impact their health care and their jobless situation. How many miles of Wisconsin roads could be fixed with 33 million dollars? Or how many Wisconsin bridges could be repaired with just one day’s fund raising from Walker’s rich friends!
Now if all state politicians would donate their campaign funds to their state’s education system, homeless, veterans, road building, etc., the US citizens would be far better off. Then if you take the current Republican presidential primary monies spent so far, billions for sure, and use that to fix the US infrastructure. Just think of the Jobs that would create! Real jobs for real families! Not political jobs for friends, but real jobs for US citizens!
If all politicians would do this at the local level, state level and national level, every state deficit would be gone! The national debt would be fixed. Millions would be back to work, the economy would be better and people would not have to be tortured by all the political TV and radio advertisements! Just think, no more mud-raking ads!
How would politicians be elected you ask? Easy, they would have to do it the old fashion way. They would have to go door to door, educating the people on what they were going to do once elected. They would have to hold town meetings and debates. Mud slinging could be banded. Politicians would have to inform us on what they would do, instead of what a bad character their opponent is. Since most of the politicians are wealthy, they would not have to worry about living expenses. They could easily fund their own transportation between debates and town meetings.
I know I am dreaming, but would it not be nice to try it for a year or two? Just for no other reason but to get rid of the mind numbing political ads and the political mud slinging. Politicians and political consultants would be against this idea, but I would bet a majority of the US citizens would be for it!
Why Not Donate Campaign Funds
January 27, 2012 by Mark Buehl
Jobs!
This political cartoon got me thinking this morning. Our Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker went out East and come back with 33 million in campaign funds for his Wisconsin Governor recall election bid. 33 million dollars in one day! From outside of Wisconsin! From just a few people! If he would donate that 33 Million dollars to Wisconsin citizens instead of spending on mud-slinging TV ads, Wisconsin citizens would definitely benefit more. After a quick calculation, I figure his 33 million dollars would buy about 1,320,000 library books for Wisconsin citizens. Or, fund the K-12 education of over 3,000 Wisconsin children. How long would 33 million dollars feed the Wisconsin homeless? Years for sure. What about the state’s veterans? That 33 million dollars would impact their health care and their jobless situation. How many miles of Wisconsin roads could be fixed with 33 million dollars? Or how many Wisconsin bridges could be repaired with just one day’s fund raising from Walker’s rich friends!
Now if all state politicians would donate their campaign funds to their state’s education system, homeless, veterans, road building, etc., the US citizens would be far better off. Then if you take the current Republican presidential primary monies spent so far, billions for sure, and use that to fix the US infrastructure. Just think of the Jobs that would create! Real jobs for real families! Not political jobs for friends, but real jobs for US citizens!
If all politicians would do this at the local level, state level and national level, every state deficit would be gone! The national debt would be fixed. Millions would be back to work, the economy would be better and people would not have to be tortured by all the political TV and radio advertisements! Just think, no more mud-raking ads!
How would politicians be elected you ask? Easy, they would have to do it the old fashion way. They would have to go door to door, educating the people on what they were going to do once elected. They would have to hold town meetings and debates. Mud slinging could be banded. Politicians would have to inform us on what they would do, instead of what a bad character their opponent is. Since most of the politicians are wealthy, they would not have to worry about living expenses. They could easily fund their own transportation between debates and town meetings.
I know I am dreaming, but would it not be nice to try it for a year or two? Just for no other reason but to get rid of the mind numbing political ads and the political mud slinging. Politicians and political consultants would be against this idea, but I would bet a majority of the US citizens would be for it!
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