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Anonymous

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Let us change the rules of the game for our congressman and senators in Washington. Now they collect their check from Washington and they have the power to raise their own salary and they do not answer to the voters very well either. What I think should be done that is each state decide what they will pay and the senators and congressman should have to be issued a check by the state they represent. If that happened then they would have to answer to us. Also put a 25% tax on all donations that are sent to them and any other politician.
 

alice

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Nice in theory, anyway. I'm afraid we've let these politicians have their way and become too powerful for too long. Don't quite know how to un-ring the bell.

Alice
 

Lonecowboy

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I like this idea better,

Washington DC must be stripped of the power it uses to abuse the states and the people. The federal government was contracted to function at the pleasure and benefit of the people and their states. They have breached that contract and broken that trust. They now expect the people and the states to exist and function at the pleasure and benefit of the Fed.

Don't waste another phone call or email on one of the 546 elitists in DC - all of whom are part of the problem. The people are the ONLY solution and they don't need the approval of career political criminals to retake control of their country.

To find out how to do it go to:

http://www.michnews.com/JB_Williams/jbw7709.shtml
 

Ben H

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They should all just get the national average salary. Maybe you should subtract all vacation above 2 weeks from that, then subtract the value of their health insurance above what the national average companies contribute.
 

alice

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Ben H said:
They should all just get the national average salary. Maybe you should subtract all vacation above 2 weeks from that, then subtract the value of their health insurance above what the national average companies contribute.

Works for me!

Alice
 

hypocritexposer

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If they have too much power, how bout going back to the way it was. Respecting the constitution.

In Canada, as I have mentioned before, and was laughed at, campaign funds are based on votes collected.

It reduces the lobbying and corruption by large corporations.


A certain $ amount per vote, payed out of taxpayer funds.
 

alice

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hypocritexposer said:
If they have too much power, how bout going back to the way it was. Respecting the constitution.

In Canada, as I have mentioned before, and was laughed at, campaign funds are based on votes collected.

It reduces the lobbying and corruption by large corporations.


A certain $ amount per vote, payed out of taxpayer funds.

You worry about Canada...let us worry about the United States.

Folks, don't get me wrong...I LOVE CANADA! I'd move there in a heartbeat and not fuss about anything. Why? 1, because I agree with ya'll about a whole lot of stuff, and 2, because I'd be on YOUR turf...

Alice
 

aplusmnt

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reader (the Second) said:
What about a "Service Level Agreement" and their pay depends upon how well they have done their job?

Nice idea, but to many of them have people at home thinking they are doing a good job, like Pelosi and Franks. You would think these idiots would never get elected again, but they get elected because people think they are doing a good job.
 

Ben H

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I can't understand how when I say that politicians should receive the national average salary, that people justify their high salaries "because they are doing a difficult job", Bull Sh!t, a well trained monkey could do their job!
 

aplusmnt

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Ben H said:
They should all just get the national average salary. Maybe you should subtract all vacation above 2 weeks from that, then subtract the value of their health insurance above what the national average companies contribute.

Problem is they would then be more compelled to take bribes and make sweetheart deals for themselves than they do now! they would be bigger crooks than ever!
 

hypocritexposer

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alice said:
hypocritexposer said:
If they have too much power, how bout going back to the way it was. Respecting the constitution.

In Canada, as I have mentioned before, and was laughed at, campaign funds are based on votes collected.

It reduces the lobbying and corruption by large corporations.


A certain $ amount per vote, payed out of taxpayer funds.

You worry about Canada...let us worry about the United States.

Folks, don't get me wrong...I LOVE CANADA! I'd move there in a heartbeat and not fuss about anything. Why? 1, because I agree with ya'll about a whole lot of stuff, and 2, because I'd be on YOUR turf...

Alice

Seems you didn't worry too much about the US when voting for Obama, but I was at the time.

told ya so.
 

Steve

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the simple answer is to make them live on social security and give them medicare..

we would then see how fast they would stop robbing SS and straighten medicare out...
 

Tam

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reader (the Second) said:
What about a "Service Level Agreement" and their pay depends upon how well they have done their job?

Do you mean that for every bill they actually read before passing they get x amount of dollars. If they don't read the bill they don't get paid. :wink:

Oh and for every dollar of unnecessary pork they hide in a bill at the last minute a certain percentage comes out of their pay.
 

Ben H

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"It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

-George Washington, warning of the danger of the two party system in his farewell address
 
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