I just saw Stephen Colbert interview David Sirota on the replay of last night’s “Colbert Report”. It was interesting because he basically said exactly what I wrote the second point of my post on government corruption last week: that the politicians are currently being bought by corporations through campaign contributions and other monies and that the only solution is to publicly finance all elections. Without the politicians need for the corporate money, the corporations will be powerless. Colbert asked him about the cost of “welfare” for politicians and Sirota replied that you would save money quickly since they politicians would no longer be paying back corporations in no-bid contracts and absurd laws and such. I still wonder how plausible it would be to eliminate all outside money from elections though, it seems like it would be fairly easy to find a way around it.