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

What health care system??? What we have now is chaos, dominated by giant health insurance companies that make up to 25% (or more) profit for providing…..NOTHING. We need single payer and we need it now or we will continue down the road toward becoming an impoverished third world country.

It was not all that long ago we passed the people’s initiative here in Idaho to have term limits. The Repubs in the legislature dispensed with it in the first 10 minutes of the legislative session.

Republican Leadership said we already had term limits via the ballot box every two years and if we wanted them out of office we need to exercise our freedom to vote. Some other stuff about “experience” leaving the legislature if we had term limits was also mentioned at the time.

It was a quick and certain death to some direct democracy people voted on and wanted on term limits here in Idaho. Can’t imagine any better success at the federal level with the career politicians in DC. I can hear all the reasons it won’t work now. But wait, don’t we have term limits on the President of the United States? That has not led to the destruction of the Republic. He get’s a maximum of eight years in office and out.

Term limits for the President were brought about because of FDR having too much fun as President by the Republicans back in the day.

Congress already participates in the same health insurance as the rest of the country: they have the same insurance options as any federal employee.

The whole concept of representative government came to be at a time when information traveled at the speed of a horse or a sailing ship. Nor was the citizen informed, educated, and connected with internet communications during this thoughtful era of Max Weber and Karl Marx. In today’s world, I see no good reason for this money sucking bunch of elitist “Representatives”. Neither do they; so they no longer refer to themselves as representatives. Instead they’ve been hard at work to change the iconic namesake and image into “lawmaker” (as if we need any more laws, as if they do something especially difficult). It is no accident that the average government wage is $30K greater than the private sector, this is another way they buy votes. It is no accident the government has grown larger than the private sector’s ability to pay for it. It’s no accident that they’ve put our nation into debt, to a greater degree than ever before, to feed cash into their selfish spending frenzy.

It has become almost entirely a bunch of lawyers helping themselves to take our money with legally justifiable methods… And as you know, a lawyer can lie and feel good about it so long as the client’s rights were defended. Nothing good will come from a system dominated by this bunch. When they run out of income to tax they will tax our net worth… that is what many of the new wave of taxes and fees really are.

My solution in addition to several of the great ideas listed above in this post is to bar lawyers and eliminate two laws for each new law passed. Also with today’s high-speed communications, every citizen could have input on every issue before the legislative branch… It could be as easy as paying your bills on the internet. The new subservient role of elected representatives could be to evaluate and implement that direct citizen input rather than the current role of forcing their personal will upon the taxpayer.

I AGREE!!

I have said it before and will say it again. Allowing Lawyers to become politicians and make laws to benefit themselves is no different than letting the fox guard the hen house.

New Law effective immediately, lawyers or prior lawyers are BANNED from political office.