US Open Government Initiative Enters Phase Three

circletimessquare writes "The Obama administration opened a discussion forum in January of this year which has become an electronic suggestion box. It is now entering stage three, following brainstorm and discussion phases: the draft phase, in which the top subject matter is codified into suggestions for the government. 'Ultimately, the visitors advanced more than 3,900 ideas, which in turn spawned 11,000 comments that received 210,000 thumb votes. The result? Three of the top 10 most popular ideas called for legalizing marijuana, and two featured conspiracy theories about Mr. Obama's true place of birth.'"

Comments

Re:Really??

[Rakishi]

Interesting how you find no connection between our nation's financial problems and the massive amounts spent on law enforcement and incarceration for marijuana related crimes.

Re:i have an amazing secret for you

[ShieldW0lf]

Yawn. You're very tiresome.

The systems are designed to make corruption possible. Not because systems must be designed with such weaknesses, they just are. Fix the systems, you remove the corruption. Ignore the vulnerabilities, corruption grows because of them. Acknowledging the nature of the system and identifying the flaws is how you remove the problem. Which is going to fall to people who can see what is going on and don't have a vested interest in the status quo.

Small minded folks like yourself will always be led around unable to see what's going on and unable to acknowledge at anything except the most superficial and intellectual level that things don't need to run this way, and will think nothing of wrapping themselves deeper and deeper into a dependent situation for short term rewards. That's what makes YOU a sheeple who empowers the malicious through small minded ignorance.

Try living in a few foreign countries and emotionally digesting just how entirely arbitrary the rules you live by are and how easily they can be changed. Try walking in some other peoples shoes and broadening your mind. Then you might actually develop something constructive to say instead of just repeating the shit you've been fed.