Daily Topics - Monday March 4th, 2013
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Hour One: Swiss KO fatcats...OK pay cuts, will we? / Plus, the sequester squeeze is on - Elliot Richardson, Small Business Advocacy Council of Illinois
Hour Two: Dead fish, banksters and the Sherman Act...oh my!
Hour Three: Time to ban "big sugar"...? Julie Gunlock, Independent Women's Forum
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#2
I wish that James Madison, or anyone in the Constitutional Convention, had recognized that single-member districts lead inevitably to a two-party system. In addition to saying "please don't form parties," 'Rusticus' also made the case that with 13 states, there should be enough factionalization of political issues that we wouldn't have to fear the arisal of a majority party.
Now, some states did not originally elect their House delegations in single-member districts, but they all ended up that way after Congress required it in the apportionment legislation. If we want to get away from two-party gridlock, we need a multi-member district of some sort, and my plan is available here. I believe that if the lower house has multi-member districts, then all decently sized parties will be able to send members to the upper house, even when its membership is elected in single-member districts.
#3
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I missed the German term for "fat cat". Was it "Großekatze" or "Dickekatze"? ("Groß" means "tall, and "dick" means "thick" as in obesity.)
EtA: Okay, so not one of those. It sounded like Thom said Abzugger or something, but I can't figure it out with http://translate.reference.com/translate. Someone who sucks (things) up, according to the translator is "Aufsauger".