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Originally Posted by GatorB
You know a lot of voters are morons. So doing what they want is not always a good idea. The idea of the President or Congressperson is to do what's BEST for the coutnry not what people WANT. HUGE difference. Just because you kid wants to eat candy for dinner doesn't mean you let them do that. You do whats BEST for them even if they don't like it. Our officeholders aren't suppose to do just what 51% want them to do. If that's what people expect why not just do away with congress and the president and do everything by popular vote?
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I would much rather governance by "the will of the people" (like I'm sure it says somewhere in the Constitution) to what you seem to be advocating which is governance by a Ruling Elite, government officials who "know what's best for you" scare the piss out of me.
I don't see the career politician doing "what's best for the country" I only see them doing what's best for themselves, voting whichever way the money tells them to, avoiding anything that may cost them re-election, setting themselves up financially for the day when they do lose an election.
I'm fucking sick of it.
The system as it is is broken, and I believe things will never get any better until we put a few more rules in place that the framers of the Constitution seem to have missed:
1: Strict Term Limits
Get rid of the professional politician.
2: All campaign contributions from any Organization, Corporation, Group or Individual over $1000 has to go through a clearinghouse before it goes to the intended recipient
who is not to be told where it came from, anybody who makes a contribution over $1000 is prohibited from revealing that fact to the person to whom it was intended under penalty of an attempted bribery charge, any member of congress who doesn't report an occurrence is also hit with a bribery charge.
3 Any,
ANY gift of any kind to a current or campaigning member of the government is bribery, no exceptions, not like it is now where all they have to do is report it, and who do they report it to? Their pals in Congress! They can legally accept materiel bribes as long as it's not cash and nobody seems to see a problem with that.
I'm not saying I can fix the government, I've just had it with current clusterfuck, I can't even watch the news anymore because it just sends my blood pressure through the roof.
But since rules like that would have to be enacted BY CONGRESS I'm not going to hold my breath but I'm STILL going to vote against every incumbent on the ballot.
wow, that was quite a rant
I'm going to go make some dinner now
