Eisboch wrote:


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


That could result in a congressional pension overload!

-HB