It is sickening to see how the middle and lower classes have struggled over the last 40 years while the politicians set themselves up for life. "Both" sides of the political aisle have passed laws shipping jobs offshore. Some jobs that can only be done on our soil have even been exported.
Meanwhile, in California's Assembly we have politicians self-compensating themselves $180k+ per year, coalescing power for themselves and pretending they care about the middle and lower classes. Let's go back to Federal and state part time legislatures and have people in government actually have to live under and within the laws they subject to the rest of the Country.
May God have mercy on this Country and those that struggle to protect it.
I've always felt that any law passed should apply DOUBLE (I realize "double" is hard to apply to some concepts) to all elected officials and institutions, and further that anything restrictive or punitive not kick in against the public until THEY'VE been living with it for five years. If something is that necessary or that beneficial, then surely they'd not mind. Anything involving financial payments would obviously be excluded. If they can't endure it at double strength, we shouldn't have to live with the normal version.