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Peter Schiff: Get Rid of the Politicians [says U.S. needs to purge career politicians]
Newsmax ^ | 2009-08-20 | Julie Crawshaw

Posted on 08/20/2009 8:27:28 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

Potential U.S. Senate candidate Peter Schiff has a very simple plan for Washington D.C. Get rid of the politicians.

“We need citizens, people who are in the private sector, to come to Washington, to really get a job done, and then to leave,” Schiff told Newsmax TV’s Dan Mangru.

Individuals who become career politicians, such as his potential opponent Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn), are what’s wrong with Congress in Schiff’s opinion because eventually they get assimilated into Washington D.C. culture.

Schiff points out that Dodd has never actually worked in the private sector, never ran a business, and has never had to live under the regulations that he writes.

On the other hand, Schiff has worked in the private sector all of his life and is currently the President of Euro-Pacific Capital.

(Excerpt) Read more at moneynews.newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; 2010midterms; ct2010; enoughalready; lping; peterschiff; realconservatives; rlc; ronpaul; schiff
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To: orinoco
“We need term limits!”

Yep and people occasionally answer that we already do through elections.

Bull.

Those with the most money win elections. Those on TV win elections. Our Congressmen and Senators spend nearly their entire terms raising money so they will be reelected.

There is NO ADVANTAGE FOR THE PEOPLE to have career politicians.

41 posted on 08/20/2009 9:20:48 AM PDT by ryan71 (We out number them so lets act like it)
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To: rabscuttle385

Amen to Ronaldus Magnus and Peter Schiff!!!


42 posted on 08/20/2009 9:20:50 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Eric Cartman for president in 2012)
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To: Brit

“Any vote against the Constitution should be treated as treason.”

Now, we’re talkin’!


43 posted on 08/20/2009 9:22:33 AM PDT by ryan71 (We out number them so lets act like it)
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To: RonF

Mind you, it’s valuable to have a lawyer’s advice when writing laws. —————————— I’m not so sure about that. Our government is full of lawyers, government PR firms and influence peddlers are full of lawyers, much of the staff of congress and senate are lawyers, lobbyists are mostly lawyers and look at the mess our country is in and the litigious society we live in. Most of the laws written by lawyers are understandable, all have loop holes in them, most are ambiguous and open for almost any interpretation one wishes.


44 posted on 08/20/2009 9:29:44 AM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: rabscuttle385

Make this man KING /sarc.

Actually, he’s right.

A great platform would be:

All politicians make GS-12 pay, get PPO-2 option and they have to pay their contribution. Pay more, you get PPO-1.

No pention. They go on a combo defined comp/defined benefit plan.

You can’t go to work for any company that you regulated while in office. Example - if you were on the House Banking Subcommittee, you can’t work in that industry when you leave.

Congressional staffs? Can’t work on the Hill for more than 6 years at a stretch. If you leave to work for a lobbying firm, you can’t work on a staff for five years after leaving the firm.

All House and Senate rules are suspended.

House and Senate rules are made by a committee of sitting State Governors.

Your spouse cannot have a job as either a consultant or board level position in a company in an industry which you regulate.

No more Senator’s wives making $600K a year consulting for an industry they have zero experience in. Both sides of the aisle do it, and NO journalist has ever publicized it.

Frankly, it’s the only way their Congressional jobs become close to lucrative - the jobs their wives get.

Here’s another - your ‘war chest’? When you leave, you can’t take it with you. It goes into the presidential campaign fund, and then the idiotic contribution check box on your IRS form goes away.

Here’s another - lawyers cannot make up more than 20 percent of any congressional class. They rest have to be from other industries.


45 posted on 08/20/2009 9:31:12 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: rabscuttle385
Come, serve a term or two and leave? What a novel idea!

Shame our founding fathers didn't think of that! Opppppps I think they did.

"Political parties"? Shame our founding fathers didn't warn us against aligning ourselves with political parties! Oppppps I know they did. Even our first President upon leaving office warned of the dire consequences should we align ourselves with Political parties.

It's really a shame most Americans don't have a clue concerning the founding of our Republic and upon which principles "we the people" would govern ourselves.

46 posted on 08/20/2009 9:50:17 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
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To: Salgak

Agree, but generally the only downsizing in government is done at the expense of the military services.

Downsizing government is much less likely than my hair growing back! Government is the only employer that is continuing to grow.


47 posted on 08/20/2009 9:58:57 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: rabscuttle385

My tag line’s second part has said it for quite a while. Soon enough there will be a funeral which will make room to expand it.


48 posted on 08/20/2009 10:36:27 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: rabscuttle385

I purge a politician every morning.


49 posted on 08/20/2009 10:37:35 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Dr. Thorne

And start with these.

Here are the Members of our House of Representatives and one Senate member who are members of the DSA:

Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)


50 posted on 08/20/2009 10:48:37 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

This is exactly what GOOOH is promoting.

GOOOH - Get Out Of Our House!!

Check it out...... www.goooh.com


51 posted on 08/20/2009 11:24:13 AM PDT by agondonter
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To: ryan71
With the government media and the special interest money they are able to buy elections.
52 posted on 08/20/2009 12:57:03 PM PDT by orinoco
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