RetiredGySgt
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- May 6, 2007
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I would NOT be opposed to cutting the salary for elected Federal officials and to hold them accountable for all the laws on the books about stock market and business dealings. Cut out the money and people won't serve for years and years.If they envisioned that, it would have been includedThey envisioned serving one or two terms then going back to work.Term limits is a bad idea. First of all the Founding Fathers gave us the opportunity to hire and fire members of congress every two years. The "term limits" proposal presumes that voters don't have enough intelligence to replace a member of congress if they prove to be inept or corrupt.
The founding fathers didn't foresee that no one polices the politicians adequately. No one needs to serve more than two terms.
Pols need to know how the rest of us live, and what problems we need solved, instead of living in their political donor bubbles.
Medicare will be bankrupt in 2026 if not sooner.
Social Security will be insolvent in 2037 if not sooner.
The National Debt is off the fucking chart, the interest payments will be more than Defense, and for what?
Their only comparable would have been England where those in Parliament routinely served decades