So, Governor Rick Perry made a speech today where he proposed the following: * Ending the practice of giving lifetime appointments to federal judges (current judges would not be affected); * Cutting Congressional pay in half; * Cutting Congressional pay in half again if they don’t balance the budget by 2020; * Cutting Congressional office budgets in half; * Cutting the Congressional calendar by half; * Criminalizing insider trading by Congressmen (no, actually, it’s not currently illegal for them to do that); * Reducing spending to 18% of GDP; * Privatizing Fannie & Freddie; * Ending the funding of Planned...
