Yes.... So stupid....... I guess I'll get meta again. How do we combine the collective intellectual power of our constituents to make the right long term decisions that is in the best interest of the people. I'm thinking something like quora/hubski/twitter for representatives.... and I've been thinking about this for a long time."American people are tightening their belts, so why shouldn't the government?"
You should be thinking of something like ACORN, or the civil rights era NAACP. Social media is a tool for organizing and education. Organizing real people for direct action campaigns targeted at those in power is the only way to change things. And this requires years of effort, possibly even multi-generational. Rosa Parks didn't just decide one day to not go to the back of the bus. She was trained to do it. She wanted to do it. And when she did it, there was a plan in place to make the bus boycott successful and to keep people getting to their jobs (which was aided by the availability of automobiles). The internet is revolutionary, but it isn't the revolution.