Aaaarrrr. Me parrot snuffed it.
Arrrrh. I think it be a grand ideer.
Every Legislature should be “part time”... particularly the US House of Representatives and Senate. They should be in session for no more than 2 weeks a year. Introduce and vote on bills, and pass a balanced budget.
These congresscritters should then return to their home state and their FULL TIME JOB.
With the country in the state it is in you’d think they would be working on more important things.
“All those in favor?” “Arrrr.”
Arrrrr-guably the stupidest resolution to come out at the most perilous time in our country’s distinguished history...
With the non-taxpaying half of the country looting the U.S. treasury, I can understand why they’d want to talk like pirates.
Aaaarrrr. Me parrot snuffed it.
There is something to be said of resolutions like this. Legislatures are workplaces like anywhere else.
I have half a mind to take this idea and use it with my Scout Troop to show the kids how laws are made - what does it take to get something EVERYONE BASICALLY AGREES ON through the legislative process.
It’s not a horrible morale builder.
Never forget - the founders were trying to achieve dysfunction. Laws shouldn’t be easy to pass.
You look at how successful legislatures have been in robbing us of freedom and stretching out the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and you have to arrive at two conclusions:
1. Not enough dysfunction and friction.
2. Measuring the legislature according to HOW MANY bills were passed during that session is rewarding the wrong behavior. (measuring it by how FEW laws might be the way to go).
“Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session, and no man’s property is safe.” - Daniel Webster
In a world full of troubles, is that their highest priority? So, the Great Experiment in representative democracy has come down to this. It appears over half the people are too stupid to manage their affairs and must be dictated to.