ConfusedinVA@99
Several great suggestions. Social Security would have been fixed long ago, if the Congressionals had to rely on it for their retirement. They don’t. Same for Healthcare.
Look, it’s not just the One. It’s the “political class” at all levels of gov’t. While, I agree that we need to replace the critters with different folks, all the newly elected will be installed in the same corrupt, pandering, rent-seeking environment, and in most-junior status.
This Congress is on schedule to enact 62,000 NEW Federal Laws this year, after passing 60,000 NEW Federal Laws last year. Add in new State and local laws…. About what? To benefit who, except special interests? Think about it. None of US can name even 10 of these new laws. However – ignorance of the law is no excuse.
The “political class” (including every gov’t worker) is in the business of enslaving US via the law and regulation. That’s their JOB. We pay them inordinate amounts to do it, and they’ve attempted to make themselves immune from prosecution for doing it, even when it’s clearly unConstitutional, or infringing on individual rights.
If we don’t prosecute and jail everyone of the legislators that voted FOR the porkulus bill without reading it, we have no hope of changing the system, or reducing the corruption, or stopping/reversing our enslavement. If this behavior doesn’t qualify as “crimnal,” then nothing ever will. Absent severe repercussions, they’ll just keep on keepin on. Both parties.
Just think – if by some stroke of fate or fortune – they happen to get defeated at the polls, then they get to retire with full-boat pensions (avg. $150K/year), plus lifelong healthcare and federal protection (why would they need that?), all on our and our children’s tab. Such a deal they’ve made for themselves.
If the “producing class” is not prepared to go to the “prosecutorial extreme,” then we’d better prepare to go the barricades; because the majority of the US population is fully prepared to live off the labor of the minority, from now on.
Lastly, we must disband current and ban future unions for gov’t workers at local, state and federal levels. They represent a clear prescription for national doom. EG, see GM & Chrysler & California. Taking back the nation, gonna get interesting, no?
