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Believe it or not, our government makes very important decisions on a daily basis. (Well, maybe not on a daily basis, they do seem to take a lot of breaks don't they?) These decisions effect our money, our freedom, our laws, sometimes even our very lives. These aren't really decisions you can make by flipping a coin. For the average citizen, making responsible decisions on matters this important would mean doing a lot of research. Research on subjects many people, including myself, haven't thought about since high school. Even if everyone had the time to do all that research, how many people care one way or the other? How many of the people that do care, have the intelligence it would take to decipher all that information? Making one or two bad decisions could put thousands of people out of work, drive the stock market down, or worse.

I wonder how we would even pull it off. Would we have to vote on every issue? Would we vote every day or once a week? Our voting system is a joke now, imagine if we had to try to keep all those over priced voting machines working on a constant steady basis. We have hard time doing that just once every four years. I guess that would create plenty of jobs though, for people who knew how to fix them. If those people do exist. But where would the money come from? Social Security or a tax hike, at least that would be up to us to decide this time.

Let's not forget about how the government would be required to inform us of what decisions we were to make from one day to the next? If they posted a list on the Internet, some group would sue for discrimination because poor people can't afford computers. If they ran it down for it on the evening news, someone would sue on behalf of the deaf. If they used the newspaper, then someone would sue on behalf of the blind.

While this sounds like a mighty fine plan indeed, I think maybe we should just focus on fixing the system we already have in place. That wouldn't cost us a dime more than we already spend. See we do actually have our say, when we vote. Maybe we haven't got a say in every single issue, but we're supposed to be voting for the people we trust. When we loose trust in the people we've voted into office, we should vote them back out of office. That will be the only way we will ever have our input incorporated into government decisions.

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