No, you’re wrong.
The idea was to have citizen legislators. You go, do your thing for a few years and you come back home. Now we have career politicians.
Let us examine the history of the next minority leader in the U.S. Senate, one Charles Schumer
He’s never worked a day in his pathetic life. He was a NY State Assemblyman, then a NY State Senator, the U.S Congresscritter, and finally a U.S. Senator.
He gets a pension from his time in the NY State Assy and Senate, and then a federal pension from his time as Congresscritter and Senator.
This is what’s wrong. Not only do they get top tier salaries for bottom tier work, the get pensions that are essentially a full salary and free medical care for the rest of their sorry lives. How is this possible? Because they have voted it for themselves. None of this was done in a public referendum. It was a sweetheart deal that they did for themselves.
The Congressional pension system should be the first thing that needs to be dismantled. Let them live as citizen legislators. Pay them for their time, per diem, as they do for your service on a Jury. When your term ends, that’s it.
Any act of corruption should be a capital crime and the seizure of the sum of their assets deposited into the treasury. Let them face the ultimate penalty for even the most minor of infractions.
Excellent.
Any act of corruption should be a capital crime and the seizure of the sum of their assets deposited into the treasury. Let them face the ultimate penalty for even the most minor of infractions.
Most excellent!
I suppose we can always dream . . .