Here's a way to get a government to listen...

[Jena]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...ke?sc=fb&cc=fp

"I call on the spouses of all negotiators to withold sex until a deal is reached," said Ms Temmerman in an article for a Belgian newspaper. "Have no more sex until the new administration is posing on the steps of the Palace."

She said if politicians' partners followed her suggestion, the "palaver" of coalition-forming would be resolved quite quickly.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Ancient Greek play....

Lysistrata (Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

[HeritagePigs]

This assumes, of course, that our legislators are having sex with their spouses. You can't withhold something that isn't happening.

[DAVID In Wisconsin]

Forget the spouses, go for the mistresses.

[Wayne02]

Originally Posted by DAVID In Wisconsin

Forget the spouses, go for the mistresses.

Yes, that would be the only truly effective way to do this. Focusing on the spouses would just result in far more cheating.