Two things to clean up 95% of bullshit in Congress:
1. Term limits.
2. Fair or Flat Tax with no meddling allowed.
Something on which we agree.
It really is the end of days.
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Two things to clean up 95% of bullshit in Congress:
1. Term limits.
2. Fair or Flat Tax with no meddling allowed.
how about a cap on how much the govt can spend every year?
You'd end up with a de-facto budget that way. I'd rather see spending decreased over time by elimination of all social programs.
Keep our social programs. Stop foreign aid. Nobody over there likes us anyway. My mama always told me "You can't buy love."
We went to breakfast yesterday and there was a man standing on the corner with a sign that said "VOTE FOR THE OTHER GUY/GIRL" and the response was amazing. If people want a real change, then thats the best way to do it. Get rid of all of them on one big lump, when you see the word incumbant you should pull the lever for the other person.
Voting out all incumbants might make sense if the people running against them were fundamentally different than the people we'd be getting ride of.
They're not.
We did that in 1994. Overturned almost 2/3rds of Congress. That got us a Republican majority then, a "contract with America", and you know the rest of the story.....
Get rid of both. Let the States fund that crap if they want to. That way all the libs will move to the Coasts and we conservatives can live in peace.Keep our social programs. Stop foreign aid. Nobody over there likes us anyway. My mama always told me "You can't buy love."
We don't need Term Limits or Campaign Finance reform. All we need is a return to electing our reps on the basis of population rather than some set number.
If you elected reps 1 for every 250,000, or less, you would reduce the need for money, because the districts would be smaller. You would reduce the need and influence of staffs because members could do the work themselves. You could reduce the number of committee assignments because there would be enough members to go around.
It has the added benefit of being the system we started out with. Change it BACK!!!
Get rid of both. Let the States fund that crap if they want to. That way all the libs will move to the Coasts and we conservatives can live in peace.
I'm so in agreement with you on this one.
My only suggestion is that our Representatives should be 1 per 30,000 constituents and those 1/6th of them are up for election every year
I ALSO think that every state should have about 6 Senators, too with 1/6th of them coming up for election every year, as well.
Why? First because it dilutes the power of every Senator and Rep considerably, doesn't it?
Secondly because one in six of them is up for election every year it gives the Senators and Reps a motivation to pay attention to cahanging public sentiment, too.
While I'm on the subject of ways we can make our so called democratic republic more democratic, I'd ALSO like to see changes in the way both houses conduct business and choose leadership.
The amount of control we grant to the majority party in office causes a lot of problems I think, and gives the Republican/ Democratic parties far too much control over our legislation when they're in power.
We don't HAVE to be a two party system, ya know?
We could, if we had a house of Representatives numbering about 1,000,000 Representatives and about 300 Senators, actually have a far more nuanced political environment, one where very different political points of view had some potential input into our system.
Would it be an unwieldy government to dominate?
You bet.
And that's not really such a bad outcome, either, is it?
Voting out all incumbants might make sense if the people running against them were fundamentally different than the people we'd be getting ride of.
They're not.
If that's what they want then why would you care?
I'm not sure what you're trying to compare here. Be specific. Dude.Dude,
Have you ever tripped over a beggar in Mexico? Have you ever bought a box of chicklets from a poor kid, only to have 100 poor kids come running?
If this is an acceptable vision of America for you, you have my pity...
How can you not care?
-Joe
Seems like a real good idea to me. I don't see much difference between republicans and democrats in this regard- they all fleeced the country....
I'm not sure what you're trying to compare here. Be specific. Dude.