Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home
Our government is broken. It is no longer by the people for the people.<p>Politicians are skipping out of their responsibilities.<p>Politicians spend much of their time in office fundraising for re-election.<p>Politicians raise much of their election financing from corporate interests, not the people, and thus have a diminishing obligation to the people.[1]<p>A vast minority of people elect our politicians because 50% of eligible voters don't go to polls.<p>Most are rich old white men, not a representation of the people.[2]<p>We can do better.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...</a><p>[2]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_S...</a>