Bunter Hiding: Why we have a $4 Trillion Budget and politicians NEVER leave DC

[CrusaderFrank]

In the middle of the current Life or Death struggle for the very soul of this Nation, we discover the real reason people get into "public service" and leave with tens of millions.

You have to thank Quid Pro Joe for so eloquently stating the heart and soul of the problem in American politics: infinite spending, no accountability no laws against inserting your family members in the international funding current.

We send billions and billions everywhere and politicians make sure their family members are in a position to profit. Rise. Lather. Repeat

Look at some of the "great" American fortunes: Reid, Pelosi, Biden, Feinstein, Obama and the Clintons

Government is the Biggest Business on the planet and it's completely corrupted

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Which is exactly why Congress needs term limits.
It's not just quid pro a.k.a creepy Joe...it's both sides.
Biden began his Senate lifetime career before The Waltons were on television! Of course he is corrupt.

 

[gipper]

Yep it is way past time for a do over.

Thomas Jefferson said every 19 years we should start over. We are over 200 hundreds past due.

“Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal.”

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:459, Papers 15:396

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yep it is way past time for a do over.

Thomas Jefferson said every 19 years we should start over. We are over 200 hundreds past due.

“Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal.”

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:459, Papers 15:396

I checked and the instructions say hit Ctrl Alt Del twice and reboot the country

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Drain the Swamp is a PERFECT Theme for Trump 2020

Why are your taxes so high? Why do we spend so much?

Because DC is broken

They don't work for the People, they work for their Family Trusts. Even a Commie like Bernie, living the life of a Commie leader

 

[SAYIT]

There have always been corrupt elected & appointed officials and even bureaucrats at every level of gov't who've worked for their best interests, not America's. That has long been widely known but these days it is the norm rather than the exception.

Term limits - even for USSC justices - are a good place to start draining the swamp but getting legislators to limit their own avarice to 8-12 years of public "service" is highly unlikely. We just need to vote 'em out.