This is how you fix Congress.......

Congressional Reform Act of 2010:

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

2. No Tenure / No Pension:

A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when
they are out of office.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social
Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security
system, Congress participates with the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional
pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in
the same health care system as the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American
people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective
1/1/11 .

The American people did not make this contract with congressmen,
congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to
work.

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Comment by ☠Realize Lies☠ on January 11, 2010 at 12:09pm: Id advocate more representatives.... return to the original ratio of one rep per 50,000 people before they changed it. That would spell out some 6000 reps.... this is the one instance id advocate bigger government. I forget at moment what the original senator ratio was but it would be quite a bit more...

....we could also criminalize lobbyists...??...

One cannot create laws for laws are self-evident. We don't need anybody telling us what to do. Not Joe Smoe not Joe Biden not ANYONE. They have no authority and there is no authority.

Why does one need experience in upholding the constitution? Why does one need experience in understanding freedom and liberty? Why would one need a lifetime of experience to understand what the common man needs or wants? Are there degree's in listening? Do you know anyone that requires extensive knowledge to balance a checkbook or fend off a bully? Why do legislation need to be worded in such a complicated language in order to accomplish a simple task? This whole notion is a double edged sword. Sure in a Utopian dream world this would be great, but just as it works for you or someone else it would work equally against you. Furthermore, politicians don't accept money because they get paid crap... they accept money because they can't get enough of it and want to build a large power base for their future families. Wanna change the system? Tell these shitbags to listen or get the fuck out. Don't like what they're doing? Vote them out. Are they still involved even though they're voted out... sure are... through lobbying. Wanna change that... make monetary lobbying illegal. Hang people who sell their vote. Tar and feather the bastards that dont listen to their constituents. Its not the process thats broken... its the individuals and the bastardization of the system since 1913. Here is an idea... make a document that everyone must follow that limits and restricts the power of federal government and hold the representatives to it. In that document and within its spirit make it an unchanging document that is not open to interpretation. Lets call it... um.... a constitution. I think maybe if we had a document like this... we wouldnt need a bunch of ass bag career politicians raiding the treasury and shitting on free market capitalism because they hired a fancy lawyer to misconstrue aforementioned document. Or hey... here is an idea... "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them (the people) under absolute despotism it is their (the peoples) right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."

Comment by Count Draugula on January 8, 2010 at 2:59am: I tend to agree with both RL and cehbeach.. and I would tend to ALSO believe that a compromise could be met and agreeable... as Mitsos alludes to.. even the mostly "useless" (I really hate to use that term.. sorry) user... does at times contribute a valuable point. - When I educate.. on various subjects (yes.. and I have professionally folks)... I have found that oftentimes... the student brings a new light that I had either forgotten about... or had passed up on my journey, on the topic. And I find that to be very valuable.. sometimes.. more valuable than my own input at the time (but you see.. I have learned a skill, that's lost among some.. humility). I will stop here however and say that... what has really stricken me about this is.. that somebody has actually remembered of the old adage... "The changing of the guard".. isn't that novel! And I agree that we really do need more of it... and as much as a full on, flushing of the "tank" would terrify me and at the same time intrigue me... I've thought about that too... it's going to have to be a joint effort and compromises am sure... will abound. But I think that the "proverbial" separation of the "wheat from the chaff" may, by necessity, be the first order of business.. And how to do that.. still confounds me.
Thanks Gentlemen.

Comment by Mitsos on January 7, 2010 at 4:42pm: You got to be strong and you got to be honest.
Much more appreciated then trying to be "perfect".
A basic set of ethics and the knowhow how to solve problems.
So... those who have the power and the money don't give a fuck and we the people are observers* and not participants.
*Little do we know and even this is manipulated.
We are talking here. That's good.
What I learned on Dramatube is that nobody is 100% to my liking and even people who I dislike occasionally do provide useful information and ideas from time to time.
Working together for the "common good". If "we" can define this "we" could change some things.
The first step to know who you are is to know who you are not.
The next step is self awareness.
We live in a society where nothing is real and tomorrow never comes.
Most likely I haven't contributed but perhaps some of the sentences make sense or could form the seed for a thought.............Memes?

Comment by ☠Realize Lies☠ on January 7, 2010 at 3:42pm: You don't quite get it Tommy boy....

...roll a healthy doobie and meditate on it for awhile...... it helps, trust me.

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