On 10/16/2011 2:09 AM, jps wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:15:25 -0400, wrote:



"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:21:46 -0400, wrote:

Agreed 100%

It's interesting to watch the likes of Chris Mathews (who I respect) and
other liberal minded political commentators tiptoe around this issue.
Officially, the talk is "Wall Street or Big Business Greed", yet he and
many
he interviews concede that Congress is basically bought .... except those
Representatives or Senators that he happens to have on his show of course.
They just blame someone else or finger Wall Street or Big Business.
Blame
them for what? For being in compliance with the rules that they, the
Congress, are responsible for putting into law?

Give 'em all their pink slips.

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Maybe the answer is term limits so they only have to be concerned
about re-election once or twice. The real problem is campaign
finance of course.

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No question, but as you know that would be harder to pass as a
Constitutional Amendment than increasing the debt ceiling or health care
reform.
The pols argue that it takes them several terms to develop the political
clout to "make things happen".

How can we possibly trust a group that votes themselves automatic pay raises
every year that only a special vote can prevent.
How can we possibly trust a group that gets the best health care programs
available to anyone on the face of the earth while
the people they represent are going broke trying to pay for theirs?
How can possibly trust a group that has fat pension plans for life simply
because they make promises and deliver nothing?
Anyone with a job evaluation report like theirs' in the real world would be
canned in a nanosecond.

A simpler solution is for voters to invoke De facto term limits by not
reelecting them term after term after term. Shake it up and
prevent long term deals and alliances to special interests to develop.

But everyone hails the politician who brings the pork home. Everyone
wants to feed from the trough, no one wants to pay for the feed.

Campaign finance and lobbying reform would do the trick but it'd take
an act of God for those who've invested so much in the present system
to dissolve it.

So JPS throws his hands up and casts his vote for status quo.