Capitalism's chokehold on our country

I watched Jay Leno last night and his guest was Michael Moore. Moore was pitching his new movie about capitalism. It got me to thinking. Although I think Moore sometimes puts things in a simplistic light and may not substantiate some facts, he made some interesting points. How about the fact that the top 1% of the population based on assets have more than the bottom 95% combined. He referred to capitalism as legalized greed. He's not pushing for socialism but some moderation in capitalism would be nice. This all goes back to some of my prior posts about the disappearance of corporate ethics. He also mentioned how 80% of the people were against the $750 billion bailout but it happened anyway. This also is a point I have made in the past. Instead of our representatives ignoring us, they should be voting our way. Our Congress was originally intended to give us representation in Washington. Nowadays, the only ones with representation are the lobbyists and political action committees. We need to reform the way business is done in DC. The first thing to do is stop all political contributions by anyone other than private individuals. Get rid of all of the special interest groups dumping millions of dollars into our senators pockets. Right now, our congressmen are just doing what the highest bidders want. Put the big stuff to a vote. Let us vote on the major things like healthcare reform and industry bailouts. How hard can it be? We don't have to go through a bunch of crap setting up for special elections and funding overtime for local election boards. We could vote like we do for American Idol or via Twitter polls. It is said that 90% of the US has internet access. That's more than the 33% who voted in the last election. There were about 115 million Idol votes the week of May 20, 2003. In comparison, 122 million voted in the last presidential election! Surely in our modern age, we can take more control of our government and our economic destiny. I guess our representatives in DC think we're just a mass of uneducated dummies who can't think for ourselves.