“Cut the government IN HALF”
For starters. Equally important are excruciatingly strict term limits, and a remaking of the system such that a ‘career’ in politics becomes impossible.
We also need to stop making the academy and law school the farm system for politicians. That leads to group think and a lack of creative ideas. Can anyone here honestly tell me that they don’t already know what an Ivy educated politician is going to say before they say it? It’s that kind of narrow world view that leads to stagnation.
We also need to stop making the academy and law school the farm system for politicians. That leads to group think and a lack of creative ideas.
Its "creative ideas" that got us into this mess.
What was wrong with "if it isn't in the Constitution, the government can't do it." simplicity? Unfortunately we keep electing people who think of investment and spending in the same way as Mega-lotto winners.