Electoral College

I recently discovered that America has an Electoral College. This pretty much means that an average Joe's vote doesn't matter, only the votes from the 538 representatives do (however, the representatives are elected, so there is a trace of democracy here).
My questions to you Americans are:
What do you think about this system? Have you/someone ever complained about this system? Do you think that you might some day get rid of the system?
 
Thanks.

>>7
Perhaps you fail to understand that the Founders wished to throw rural areas a bone, because without the cheap food and water they willingly provide to the large cities, the large cities instantaneously become Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Also, I have always had a lot of trouble accepting this idea that rural areas are somehow burdensome to the economy and the urban centers are somehow subsidizing them.  There are more niggers on welfare in Harlem alone than the entire populations of West Virginia and the Dakotas put together.  This years bailouts for Wall Street--which is located in Jew York City, if you hadn't heard--are equivalent to how many prior decades' tax revenues from the entire state?

Parasitism is always unjust but if you want to look where your tax money is being given out as handouts to ne'er-do-wells, you'd best look closer to home.