Tuesday, July 28, 2009

CAREER POLITICIANS ARE COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY

The article below is all the proof anyone needs to document the case that having professional career politicians is counter intuitive, counterproductive, unnecessary, hurtful and just plain dumb.

It is absurd in the extreme for we the people to continue to send the same hacks and pigs back to the Senate and to the House of Reprehensibles year in and year out. We do not need these people and the fact is a very good case can be made that regularly returning them to office benefits only them and not the rest of us. Most certainly it does virtually nothing for the greater national good.

Yes, this means your local favorite as well as all of the rest of these tiring boors. Why is it important to send back the same people repeatedly other than for purely selfish local self-interest? How does that possibly benefit the nation as a whole?

The current system as it exists is precisely what has gotten us into this mess we have today. It will happen again if we do not exercise our good judgment and send these people back where they came from to get real jobs and earn honest wages. What we need to do in 2010 is put them all, and I do mean all, into the unemployment lines. The nation has been around for 200 or so years without them and it will be around long after they are gone.

When we all go to vote in November 2010 follow this simple guideline: do not vote for any incumbent. None, zero, zip, nada. It is time to completely turn over our national legislature, send new and fresh blood to Washington and stop the lunacy that is career politicians. Let those now in Congress run for something else like state offices or national offices they do not now occupy. Turn them loose. If they are really good they will survive in some other public service capacity. If they are not, and that would be the case with most, they should be shown the door out of office forever.

If you have a Senator up for reelection, vote for someone else. Since all House members are up, vote them all out of office. Going forward employ enough common sense to never again create a "political class".

Frankly, United States Senators serve for six years. That is more than long enough for one individual to feed at the public trough. One term and out of the Senate.

House members serve two year terms and for most of them, that is more than enough time and opportunity to do damage to the health and welfare of America. But if for some unusual reason they provide great service to the entire nation, and not just to the local branch of a national labor union, return them to office for a second two year term. However at the end of four years, no matter what, send them packing and put someone new in office.

In the end our system of governance was designed to be filled with citizen legislators, not professional political hacks who spend their time primarily lining their own pockets as well as those of their friends.

That brings us to the grand prize, the Presidency. For the future welfare of this country as well as all of the rest of the world this should be a one term, four year assignment. No reelection distraction. No endless fundraising. No political paybacks and payouts. Serve one term and hit the road. After all Abraham Lincoln, often considered our greatest President, served but one term. Some of the worst in history have served two.

Can anyone out there articulate an important, non self-serving reason why we the people should not follow such a path? If so, it would be nice to hear it since the reality is there are no quality reasons why we should continue to tolerate and suffer the consequences of the current "political class" sham.

What say you?


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