[muawiyah]

All sounds great but we finally ratified the original 11th Amendment just a few years ago and it puts some serious limitations on changing Congressional compensation ~ up or down.

Figure out how to get around that one.

[PGalt]

HOORAY DrDan4Congress! It's a start. Legislatures (state and federal) could be part-time jobs with 1/10th pay, NO retirement, NO insurance, NO benefits and NO perks. These POS politicians (yourself not included) can get a full time job doing something productive not progressive.

Thanks for the post, muawiyah. Interesting.

...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Alter it.

[PGalt]

Yours was the race with John (RIP) Armor (aka FReeper CongressmanBillybob), wasn’t it? IIRC I watched one of those debates on this forum. Thanks for being here.