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Date: 7/8/2013 1:37:00 PM
From Authorid: 21903
Amen sista...it feels like an endless evil cycle we are stuck in. It angers me that no one outside of the big parties can get a chance...people with fresh ideas and possibly less greedy. It is very frustrating, indeed.  |
Date: 7/8/2013 8:27:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 15228
I didn't flesh this out really well, I was being rushed to go to a movie. I just feel like we all complain about congress, yet we keep electing the same people over and over and over. We can't blame them when some of them have taken their job on as a life time position and we keep giving it to them. Many of the people in some of the departments, like State and the EPA, have been on the job forever. I think the positions ought to be shrunk and cleaned out every so often. In fact, we don't need many of the departments, like Education and Labor. If we simplified our tax code we could get rid of more than half the IRS. In my opinion, Homeland security should never have been created. We have the FBI, ATF, border control and the CIA for security. We certainly didn't need another entire department to duplicate what they do.  |
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Date: 7/8/2013 9:15:00 PM
From Authorid: 11240
I believe the problem lies in the lack of attention the general populous has in anything political other than a tweet by some one the recipient deemed had worthy opinions. Unfortunately, worthy opinions, in my mind are not doled out by the current celebrity or idol, but by those whose convictions are reasonable, whose point of view is consistent along the whole spectrum of ideas, and whose actions do not contradict their words. The way things are done in Washington do not lend well to those with these levels of comportment. The way things are done in Washington is what I think needs to be reformed: e.g., the special interest lobbeys writing legislation that are beneficial only to the special interest groups. The government is there for WE, THE PEOPLE. Apparently, enough of we the people all belong to some type of special interest group that we are led to believe are acting in our special interest, since we do keep electing the same people who've apparently taken our interest to heart, right? Otherwise, the cobbling together of so many diverse (and counter-interest) groups, with each promised their interest to be legislated, executive ordered, or favorably adjudicated (even if by one justice) is driving us into chaos, one I believe that has been orchestrated. I know the individual state approach in Constitutional Amendment procedure sounds overly cumbersome, BUT, come on! Our states have done this before . . . WITHOUT computers . . . and the internet . . . and instantaneous communication! I would like to see some enterprising person develop software which every state (not the controlling party) could use to have its interested, properly registered to vote citizens become actively involved in this type of democratic process. While I am a huge advocate of our Republic, our (WE, THE PEOPLE) branch in the checks and balances is being tyrannized by the majority, i.e., the other branches of government, since our own representation become entrenched in the executive branch once they realize that if they are voted out of office, they are sooo available to be hired by the lobbyist firms, or become ambassadors in exotic lands, appointed a judgeship, be named secretary/head of one of the self-perpetuating cabinet position/bureaucracies, or write books claiming that the system is just too entrenched to change but we tried, blah, blah, blah. I see rabble rousers wondering why the U.S. could not put together a demonstration such as Egypt, since it does seem to be that quite a number of people here are fed up. But,he logistics in this country for such a protest are just not the same. An unadulterated lobbey of WE, THE PEOPLE, able to vote our opinion to our state's site, with results going to our representatives, and should their opinion (vote) go counter to WE, THE PEOPLE, petitions to recall automatically pop-up. The technology exists today to allow WE, THE PEOPLE of this country to be far more active in our CONSENT to be governed than ever before, and yet we use that technology for what??? God Bless.  |
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Date: 7/8/2013 9:21:00 PM
From Authorid: 64819
I think everything should be a nation-wide vote. Congress gets to vote on their own pay raise, I think the American people should vote on the pay raise. We should have Congress Duty, kinda like Jury Duty. Each week a million people picked at random hear the bills (or whatever may need the vote), and for a week they serve in Congress via web cam. It would be done like a debate, both parties get a chance to speak for about 30 minutes, make a rebuttal, and close their arguments, then the American Congress could vote.  |
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Date: 7/9/2013 6:46:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 15228
Deb, not to sound like a broken record, but what would solve the lobbyist problem are term limits. That's the easiest way around that particular problem. Two and done, lobbyist wouldn't have time to own these guys. They would be true public servants so maybe we could attract better people, not ones who think they are so indispensable that they have to sit in a seat for years. |
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Date: 7/9/2013 12:19:00 PM
From Authorid: 11240
I think term limits just make the "lobbyist problem" a version of redistributing the wealth of 'paybacks' to that many more politicians. Sure, individual politicians would not reap the same amount individually with term limits, but it does nothing to change the culture of paybacks that is the Washington way. JMHO . God Bless. |
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