Wired has an interested story about a new Wiki’esk movement to try and clean up congress. The idea is that by getting the web masses to track down who’s doing what, we as a society will be better informed about the rediculous spending habits of our Congressman and Congresswomen.

The Change Congress website is set up to help identify which members of Congress are gaming the system. The idea is to get every Congressmen/women to sign a petition saying that they support the following four items:

1. No money from lobbyists or PACs
2. Vote to end earmarks
3. Support publicly-financed campaigns
4. Support reform to increase Congressional transparency

The hope is that once everyone is on board with these four ideas, we will have a more transparent and less corrupt government. Although I’m absolutely for all of these ideas, I am a bit skeptical that this movement will take off. It assumes that Congressmen/women will give up all their free lunches (stand up only) just like that. I love the idea, but worry that it won’t pick up much steam.

Good luck though!

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