Then get rid of the profession politicians and get some who do have business experience and also get some aides who have business experience. There are all too many aides like the assistant in the British series "Yes, Minister" who are doing things because that is the way they always have. You need people working there who know s*it from s*inola about what goes on outside the beltway. Even the MSM realizes that there is a huge yawning chasm between inside the beltway and outside the beltway and mentions it but then they are also a part of the inside the beltway society. Open it up, put up term limits, get people in there who can read, force them to read the bills before they vote on them. After all it was one of the leaders of the House who laughed just a couple of days ago about the members reading the Healthcare bill before voting on it. He thought it was funny. And yet this is a bill that would affect about 15% of our whole economy. They won't even read what they are passing and the bills are purposely so long and convoluted that the members couldn't really understand it if they did read it. How many of those in Congress are lawyers and used to the whole band-aid on band-aid type of obfuscation in language. Is there a reason that the laws have to be written so that the average layman can't understand them?
As to the current members, Some of the Yellow Dog Democrats have potential if they stop falling in line to vote as their seniors demand and take real stands. Coburn is one who has tried to stop the earmarks. A few of the Republicans have tried to stop them. Boehner has taken stands against this rush to pass legislation that will not do what they claim it will. I want Dodd gone, Rangel gone, Frank gone, Murtha especially gone, Pelosi gone, Reid gone, Specter gone, Kerry the waste of air gone, Schumer gone, Obey gone, Lindsey Graham gone, Waters gone, Sheila Jackson Lee gone, Nadler gone, Waxman gone, Boxer gone, Murphy gone, Conrad gone, Anthony Weiner my congressman way gone. That would clear a lot of the dead wood and the crew that is getting in the way of anything productive happening. Replace them with people who actually know have a clue how to run a business. Get a lot of the legislation out of DC and let some of the states do something with it so we can see what works and what doesn't. In the states get rid of the legislators who have been there for a generation or more and who just keep adding to the costs with programs that have failed and should be eliminated. Look at the crew in California and the crew in Mass for starters. Neither of them has even taken a look at where the money has gone and what it has bought to see if they can cut spending. They keep all the spending and add to it and if you say cut, they cut essential services and leave the fat alone. Then they claim that if you don't support their programs you will hurt the cheeellllddddrrrreeeennnn. RichardForbes wrote: > Dick - > > The Congress has 535 members. Most have no practical business > experience. Can you name even ten that you would actually want > running the economy and solving the recession. That is, if you even > believe they are capable of doing so if they try. > > On Jul 11, 8:47 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Instead they are doing a whole lot of finger-pointing and blame-passing >> so they don't have to do their jobs. >> >> http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/11/hayden-says-informed-congr... >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
