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You can't let elected reps grow roots in their seats, but maybe the same goes for the bureaucrats too. And the journalists, and the lobbyists, and everyone else in DC. Broom the whole lot out every ten years. Every single person. Of course this is not realistic. So you have to have elected reps who just aren't going to sink to unprecedented lows. Ultimately you have to have ethical people.
Absolutely. I believe it would be realistic to move the seat of government every 15 years or so. That would at least do away with the entrenched DC crowd. Washington could still be the "Traditional" capital, but the politicians would be sent to the seat of government (like Brasil did with Rio and Brasilia). This would require an Amendment to the Constitution I believe.
Another way would be for voters to make it in the Congressmen's best interest to be ethical. If you believe that politicians will look after their own best interest, and I do, then institute policies that make it in their best interest to actually be ethical. For example, eliminate their ability to purchase stock since it can be assumed they have inside information. How do they leave office as millionaires whey their salary is something like $ 170,000? Another would be to strictly enforce FOIA and treat even minor violations as felonies. Another would be to only allow net TAX PAYERS to vote. That would make buying votes not in their best interest.
So, New capital is OKC. And the entire DC staff of the State Department goes to jail. See how easy!
Last edited by Da Geezer; January 9, 2016, 06:17 PM.
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Goodell describes bribes as 'inadequate'; St. Louis, Oakland, and San Diego need to throw a whole lot more free money at the NFL if they hope to retain their teams
Briefly suffered some NFL exposure last night. Granted it's a pleasure to see the game played at its highest level and also not in its track-meet version that it sometimes is because of necessary rules changes, but pretty much everything about the NFL has reached it's logical and unhealthy extreme. Not just the headhunting, but so much of the behavior. This can't go on like this.
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