[Thermalseeker]

As it is the Federal Government is little more than organized crime and electing new crime leaders more often will not solve the problem.

I would wholeheartedly agree with your friend's sentiments, except for this line. Short of revolution, voting out the folks who created this mess is the single best tool we have at our disposal. The only way we are going to shake up Congress and make them listen, even if only temporarily, is to throw as many of the bums out of office as possible, and especially the long entrenched incumbents who think they are made of Teflon.....

[surfer]

I think my friend’s comments were intended to point out voting a bunch of miscreants out of office isn’t enough. We need to change the rules and have things like term limits and find a way to stop the money flowing to candidates and to pork. Once we eliminate the opportunity for corruption we will stop electing corrupt people. :)