Unemployment, and so on

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• You make it a crime to bribe, or accept a bribe.
• Lobbying is no longer a profession, and you democratize access to legislators.
• Put limits on governments ability to selectively hand out money, or tax corporations or industries (e.g. tax breaks and loopholes).
• Enforce and strengthen the existing laws and make our politicians more accountable to the laws governing all citizens (e.g. insider trading).
• If you donate to a political campaign, you are ineligible to enter into government contracts.
• Find constitutional (i.e. not violating free speech) ways to make elections fair, and not require millions or billions to finance. Look hard at how to constitutionally keep big money out of financing veiled "issue ads".
• Take a hard look at fund raising and the practice of bundling (almost all bundlers represent corporate lawyers, corporate law firms, and the financial industry).

Haha, yes I also agree with this. But lets just take one of your points. ''''If you donate to a political campaign, you are ineligible to enter into government contracts.''''''
But let's be realistic. In the US FITs armed revolution will happen before this will happen.
It has been said many times here, in the US there is socialism for the rich and it will take an armed conflict to end this.
It is the same as in Italy....Ok Berlusconi will quit now, but I doubt a lot will change. A proposal to bring down the salaries and pension schemes of parlementarians (they have the highest compensations and work the least in the whole of europe) only got support from a few people from the party (Italia dei Valori) that filed this proposal (not even everybody from that party agreed). So even the (ex) communists voted against this proposal.......and I can tell you.....politicians in Italy make a lot of money......slicing their salaries in half would still be really nice for them.

Can you imagine....the population is being extortioned by the political class and even are brainwashed so much they can't even vote them away!! Well brainwashing plus of course 'the Italian dream' which says that if you support people higher up on the social ladder than you some money will flow your way eventually. I think the American political class is very much comparable with the only difference that in the US they are already rich when the go into politics while in Italy people usually get rich once they go into politics.

As long as you start magnifying the difference between the political parties people wont pay attention to politicians as a whole.