[smith288]

Maybe it is time to go for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on congress critters.

That should have been done long ago but guess who gets to write that little bit of legislation? Our congresscritters who vote themselves the treasury.

Fat chance EVER seeing terms limits in our lifetime. The view is too sweet for them career politicians.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

They say that democracies perish when the mass of idiots realize they can vote themselves the wealth of the minority of hard working taxpayers.

Maybe democracies perish even sooner: we only need a few congressmen and senators to vote themselves into a virtual nobility and remain there so as long as they distribute a few crumbs to the mass of idiots.