10,000 Brilliant Ideas

If your government rates high on the corruption index and you would like to change that, how about this idea? Choose two governments that rank low on the corruption index (and I'm pretty sure that is closely linked with efficiency), we'll call them helper countries, and enter into a short-term arrangement where each government official in the high-corruption country (need country) is linked with an official each from the helper countries. No official influence can be made by the need official without being double counter-approval by the helper officials. At the same time whatever safeguards in the systems of the helper countries which makes corruption less desirable will be implemented in the need country.

I realize I wasn't the most with it teenager, but I certainly wasn't the bottom of the ladder. My knowledge of politics and the political system was restricted to national systems and that was last informed in 5th grade. What I'm thinking of is some kind of letter or email or web site where a new 18-yr-old can go to and see "Hey, you're of legal voting age. Welcome to the board." This would then explain that there are a whole lot of public servants out there working for you. And in fact, you don't have to hate the police, because in effect they work for you. And if you have a problem you can contact Mr Chief of Police or you can vote for the other guy when reelection time comes up. Also you have all these other people working for you including the mayor, governor, and up. If you think things should be run differently (and chances are they should) you should write to this person, or attend this meeting, or vote this way. Essentially demystify the behemoth o...