Occupy movement, how about adding this to your list!

I really appreciate all that Occupy movement is doing and am 100% behind the 99%! When my husband and I were discussing the issues and demands, he had a great idea of what the movement could actually DO, and since he doesn't write, I'm doing it in both of names.

How about coordinating a national repeal effort of all the Congresspeople and Senators who are abstructing the efforts to help the 99%! Let's take what Wisconsin started and take it to all the states. I think this would give the Occupy movement a really tangible thing to go DO! Lets have real action to get these middle class hostage takers out!

Get money out... I agree

People here, in the US, wonder how you can run for office if you don't have money or how can we change the current system!

Well, this is a very difficult thing to accomplish here, and it will take tremendous changes in the constitution and how elections are done here.

First, I think primaries would have to be eliminated as well as the electoral college. There actually are more than two parties in the US, and yet there are only two primaries, as though the other parties don't even need to be considered! Any person who wants to run for office would have to complete a registration as they do now, and be given a pre-set amount of public funds to get his/her campaign off the ground. There need to be time limits on how long candidates can campaign and I would say that they can raise some money from their supporters, but again, that would need to be limited as Buddy Roamer suggests, to a small amount and given by individuals only!

Each candidate would be given free tv spots, equal for each, and participate in debates until the time of elections. And in the end we all vote and select the candidates we want. Instead of primaries, we would have another vote for those that potentially tied.

Simple! No super pacs, no corporate donations, limit campaign times, and $$!

Also, then we may need to do like other countries that actually have multiple party systems to have coalitions to be able to get things done together.

And finally, lobbying should be made illegal, period!

Our politicians need to spend time governing and not fund raising and sucking up to lobbyists.