I’m not sure who specifically to credit for the diagram, but I first saw it on the Lew Rockwell blog.
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How and why did we ever get to this? Wasn’t it the intention of the Founding Fathers that representatives were to be made up of successful business and community leaders and they were to donate a few months of each year as a service to the country? Now look at the expense of travel, salaries, perks, etc. How do we ever clean up this mess?
By the way JL, Reuters News takes credit for the diagram. It says so in the lower right hand corner.
in an interview with PBS, Ron Paul was explaining why he chose not to participate in the congressional pension plan and returns a portions of his congressional salary each year. he went on to say that congresspeople should be typical working people of the community. now they aren’t even allowed to work outside their political jobs. the gap between our elected officials and us — the average citizens, they are supposed to be representing — is increasing. they have become a separate class of Americans with increasingly less concern for the common man.
I would love to see a movement to get rid of all the career politicians. I’m so sick of seeing the same people, all the way from local government to Washington. The incompetents is staggering. When will people catch on. I’ve heard the same thing come out of these politicians in Monroe all my life, and STILL nothing changes. It’s the same with Washington; but of course we don’t want anything to change there because I’m confident it would only be for the worse.
Something has to happen while we still have the right to vote in the right people.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
How and why did we ever get to this? Wasn’t it the intention of the Founding Fathers that representatives were to be made up of successful business and community leaders and they were to donate a few months of each year as a service to the country? Now look at the expense of travel, salaries, perks, etc. How do we ever clean up this mess?
By the way JL, Reuters News takes credit for the diagram. It says so in the lower right hand corner.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
thanks. i didn’t notice that.
in an interview with PBS, Ron Paul was explaining why he chose not to participate in the congressional pension plan and returns a portions of his congressional salary each year. he went on to say that congresspeople should be typical working people of the community. now they aren’t even allowed to work outside their political jobs. the gap between our elected officials and us — the average citizens, they are supposed to be representing — is increasing. they have become a separate class of Americans with increasingly less concern for the common man.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:02 am
I would love to see a movement to get rid of all the career politicians. I’m so sick of seeing the same people, all the way from local government to Washington. The incompetents is staggering. When will people catch on. I’ve heard the same thing come out of these politicians in Monroe all my life, and STILL nothing changes. It’s the same with Washington; but of course we don’t want anything to change there because I’m confident it would only be for the worse.
Something has to happen while we still have the right to vote in the right people.