What are some ways that ordinary people can influence how the government spends money?

Question

What are some ways that ordinary people can influence how the government spends money?

Answer 1

They do all the time.  When people stop buying goods and products and big business starts to suffer financially ... the government starts to notice.  The government will intervene, too.  The government helped bail out Chrysler several years ago. It's the American people who shape the economy and it is the heartbeat of a democracy.

Answer 2

Try and get a copy of the Congressional Record and find out the information about those individuals or committees appear to be wasting money. Then start a mailing campaign with others. But don't use a form letter. Hate to tell you what they do with those. Write your congressman and senators and vote them out.

Any very large group is going to waste money and lose a certain control over spending.

Answer 3

Well, "Urkka n da club", that's a great question.  Unfortunitly unless you are contributing to the campagn fund (ae-paying them off) you can't.  Have a nice day!

Answer 4

stop paying taxes

Answer 5

Vote for the candidate who shares the same fiscal philosophy as you.

Answer 6

Start a club and have a website about it.

Answer 7

riot

Answer 8

Call and write you senators and congressman and tell them how you feel...often!

Answer 9

Manufacture some bogus crisis like man-made global warming

Answer 10

The government use to police itself on spending..I'm not sure if they still do.  Its very hard to control spending unless you're on the inside.. A great example was our military...when I was an Aviation electronics technician in the Navy.. I could cross reference any part with multiple vendors.   It was amazing.. lets say an audio amplifier or a transistor for a radio could be ordered by several different numbers.. one vendor may charge $5 bucks for the part, while another would charge $140.   We were encouraged to fill out a form that described the differences and try to eliminate the other vendors part.

The irony is..most times politicians address the Government about money, is because they have their hand out.

Answer 11

Create another bogus crisis that will make the government invade another sovereign nation, ala Iraq! By the way I am THE ALL AMERICAN!!!! You reckon that would do the trick baby?

Answer 12

start a picket line every friday at the welfare office

Answer 13

V.....O.....T.....E!

Answer 14

You probably cant.

Answer 15

I second what Razor Jim said.

Answer 16

We can't. The government spends how ever much it wants. We just pay the bills.

Answer 17

They can't, unless you have the kind of money that the lobbies have

Answer 18

Voting, writing blogs, letters to editors, attending candidates' meetings and asking leading questions.  Right now is a pretty good time to start getting involved.