[1010RD]

Either:

1. Discover why the Founders critically designed a small government.

or

2. Just keep re-electing them.

[Jacquerie]

At the Constitutional Convention, Charles Pinckney, Governeur Morris and Ben Franklin pushed to deny Senators any salary whatsoever. They wished to prevent what had evolved in England, where men sought positions in government to enrich themselves and cronies. A Senate of older, self-made, wealthy men would be less prone to corruption and more resistant to wild populist ideas from the House.

We are now stuck with three term Congressmen, aka Senators. These self imagined wise men, are actually petty dictators who subtly feather their nests at the expense of the people they are supposed to serve.