Reflections on the election.....

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by mawshj

no one will vote their job away, the only way to get this is to make it start now ,all people who are now in can stay in until they die or are voted out, anyone voted in from now on has a 2 term limit, this will take 50 years to be fully in force but we must do it

Well, it's not a bad idea. Just vote the person out the next cycle and you have a new guy with term limits imposed. You could drain the swamp in 12 years.

Personally, since we're talking about wishes rather than reality, I'd love to see a law that makes every member of congress required to have the same health coverage as whatever they pass and impose on the rest of the population... no more sweet deals just for them... additionally I want to see it required that they serve a minimum of 20 years before they get full retirement benefits... just like the rest of us. (For anyone that doesn't know, if you are elected to Congress, you get full pay for the rest of your life, even if you only serve one term). These thieves known as Congressmen and Senators have stolen from the American public for too long. They vote themselves their salaries, retirement benefits, health care, etc. It's like the fox guarding the hen-house. There really needs to be an agency, NOT made up of ex-congressmen, that determines the pay scales for congress, not the congressmen themselves.