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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Is America a Democracy
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 12:51:42 EST
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> In theory, the american political system can be called a
> representative democracy, because of the ONE MAN/ONE VOTE 
> principle.
> However, in practice , the system is not adequately representative,
> because the actual principle of representation is ONE DOLLAR/ ONE
> VOTE.  [CHEDLEY AOURIRI]

Not really.  The middle-income people (like me) have much greater
aggregate income than the rich.  Yet the rich remain untouched by
the economy, their kids never got drafted, and the income of the
middle-income people is heavily taxed for redistribution to rabble
who have never worked a day in their lives.  

Is our government run right?  Is government of the people, by the
elite, for the rabble what we want?  

If not, let's discard BOTH the 1962 Supreme Court's "one man, one vote"
(which, by the way, was never the intent of the Founding Fathers in 1787)
and Mr. Aouriri's "one dollar/one vote."  Reorganize the government like
a corporation (NB: NOT a "corporate state"!), and sell SHARES for something
like $5 apiece to Americans.  These shareholders would elect a President and
a Board of Directors according the "one SHARE/one vote" principle, the way 
other corporations do.  Together, the hundreds of millions of working people
would own more shares, and hence outvote, the few hundred thousand rich
and the pointy-headed intellectual elite, and we'd see government that
actually provides a return to those of us who are footing the bill!

					-- Matt Rosenblatt