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3.16.06 @ 12:01AM

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SENATORIAL HOOKEY
Re: David Hogberg's Blank Checks:

When you consider that most of those in Congress who create the most problems with the budget are, by ordinary American standards, quite wealthy, any proposal to cut their salaries on non-performance of their job is ludicrous, and certain to be ignored.

The only way to ever solve the problems of the Imperial Congress is to pass three constitutional amendments:

a. Term-limit all members of Congress;

b. Require that every budget be balanced; and

c. Give the President line-item veto powers.

Finally, a most draconian fourth amendment should be considered:

d. In any year, the federal budget cannot grow at a rate greater than the economy.

There are states where one or more of the above proposed amendments are the law, and none of them has collapsed into chaos, or gone bankrupt.

Sadly, none of these things will ever happen, because in order to amend the Constitution, it requires a bill to pass both halves of the legislature, by a two-thirds majority in each.

No modern politician would ever touch the above four proposed amendments with a ten-foot pole, because it would mean the end of the political class at the national level. One might as well go out and look for an honest job. . . .

The founders of this country did not foresee the government of this country being dominated by career politicians. Sadly, what we have today is the result of that failure. But then, they were men of honor and character.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

Paychecks should also be docked for every day the member is not in chamber doing the job they were hired to do. So when they decide to run for an office and have to be off campaigning all over the country, they need to pay for it with their paycheck being docked. Why should taxpayers pay them for NOT doing their jobs.
-- Elaine Kyle

OLIGARCHY, ONE STEP AT A TIME
Re: Quin Hillyer's Judges Judging Judges, Quite Judiciously:

As to "Judging Judges," Mr. Hillyer cites the axiom by Judge Cardozo, i.e. "the tendency of a principle to expand itself to the limits of its logic," suffice to say, this was the clarion warning against the liberal tactic we have come to abhor, incrementalism.
-- A. DiPentima

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