[clue-talk] A fsck'ed up view on campaign reform

[Richard Knechtel]

If you look back at how the founding fathers set up the government you will
see that the political system was -NEVER- designed to be a career like all
these bozo's are making it. It was originally designed so that a normal
person would leve their regualr job/business, do the term of service and
then go back to their civilian life again. But has become a corrupted
career. We need to vote every single one of the people in office OUT! and
not vote for people that have served say more than 2 term. We have term
limits for a president - no more than 2. I think that should be cut back to
one. And for sentors I say 1 since they serve 6 years. Representatives serve
2 years so I would say limit them to two terms. Then it would be very hard
for them to have such heavy handed and tight fisted controll. And darnit
enough of the two party system - it doesn't work!  We need to add thrid
parties.  I think if enough people studied our constitution and the
amendements and how the government was -originally- designed more people
would say "wait a fsck'ing minute here!".

On 10/3/07, David Rudder <david.rudder at reliableresponse.net> wrote:
>
> Why do we have 100 senators and however-many congressmen/women.  Why?
> Ask any high school kid and you'll hear "2 senators per state and the
> house is determined by the state's population".  But, how many senators
> and congressmen do we need?  How many people does it take to get done
> the serious business of making the laws of the United States of America?
>
> If the number is significantly less than the current levels, then what
> are these elected officials *doing* the rest of the time?  Campaigning.
> Okay, cool.  It's messed up, but I'm okay with it.  Or, let's at least
> assume I'm okay with it, since I'm really not.
>
> What happens if we take money out of politics?  Politicians don't have
> to spend so much time campaigning.  And then they do...what exactly?
> Make more laws?  God forbid.  Can we fire Florida's reps?  Probably not
> :(  You know that this is a void that will have to be fixed.
>
> We could say that the congressmen could be required to have a real job,
> but then there's conflict of interest issues.
>
> Maybe they have to volunteer?  Must teach a class at some university in
> their state?  Can we make them file reports at Walter Reed?
>
> -Dave
>
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