Those rhetorical bombshells detonate locally with increasing frequency – and much greater volume.“It’s gotten extraordinarily nasty at every level and from every source and every point of view,” said former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Palm Beach Gardens. “How un-fun it is to be in politics today because of the personal attack and the things you go through. No longer do we come together in times of peril; we start dividing and conquering in a brutal way. Politics has gone from a blood sport to a nuclear war.”
Isn't that what Foley did during our last election when he was making a big bru ha ha over the "missing" 500 ballots?
Foley is a joke just like most politicians when in or out of office, look at Koons now, in jail, yet wants his county benefits, Let's see if West does what he says and is any good, I doubt it, they all become corrupt with time and fall into the system of greed while in office, that is why we need the Congressional Reform Act of 2011, consider pushing for this for our elected officials:
ReplyDeleteCongressional Reform Act of 2011
1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below..
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
Tell twenty people about this and start pushing for it, we need this change, personally, maybe we should just treat all these political positions like jury duty and make us all serve without all these benefits and opportunities for so much corruption. Maybe it is time for real change.