Dear Cutter and Candy: I agree they should be fired, but not that way!
The best way I know to bring validity back to voting and govt:
1. promote representation by party, where voters take responsibility through their respective parties for the programs and policies they support. So this would encourage people to vote for things they are serious about funding, not expecting other people to pay for disagree.
2. make and enforce and apply all laws based on the Constitution, not party or personal beliefs. So regardless who is inside or outside office, laws would reflect the consent of the governed, both majority and minority, regardless of numbers or who won which vote. The people taking office is responsible to all the public, not just the people who voted for them.
3. As for the death penalty, I believe a stronger deterrent is threatening to revoke citizenship. If Citizens sign agreements that if they commit a premeditated crime with a weapon or with other violence, such as armed robbery or rape, then they agree to forfeit citizenship and trade places with an immigrant worker on the waiting list. If they get a sentence like 5-20 years, then they trade places with a guest worker on Visa for that long.
if they get life, they trade places with someone who gets citizenship for life. So it keeps the population stable, and it sends a message rewarding law abiding conduct and not illegal.
I believe that would work better than the death penalty to deter crime and provide for restitution as part of the terms of the sentencing. If everyone guilty of drug or human trafficking had to pay back proportional restitution either through fines or labor, then that money could be invested in building military prisons, teaching hospitals and schools across the border to solve the immigration problems. Prison laborers working off their debts could take the place of women and children suffering in sweatshop factories, where they can go to school instead. So even if you cannot replace the life of a murder victim, the offenders could use their time to save the lives of other victims of crime. Set up a program like that, managed by a combination of schools, churches and govt to handle security/military and that could provide for immigration and prison reform at the same time, where the restitution pays back the taxpayers and victims instead of charging us more to fix these problems.
