RE: Please don't stop at campaign reform

[Denise Hood <hoodsx3@aol.com>]

Al:

I am not that familiar with the Libertarian philosophy, is that what you are espousing here? THere are some problems I have with it. While I think that it's a wonderful idea to have our Congressmen spend MORE time back home in their districts, meting with their constituents, it seems that you favor a total dissolution of any centralized federal government. How would that work? How would legislators meet to introduce bills and pass legislation? What you are talking about sounds like the abolition of federal government in favor of 50 seperate states. I don't see how this could work.

If every lawmaker prioritized every line-item in the budget, and then a tally was taken, and only the most popular items received funding, what would happen to aid to our nation's poorest and most vulnerable citizens? What sort of priority do you think they would receive? I can see how many good and worthwhile programs (Headstart, school hot-lunch program, Medicare/Medicaid, to mention a few) could fall by the wayside in very short order, falling victim to the "wish-list" of the majority. This seems very problematic to me.