Moo-chelle Obama

[Perfectlap]

^ one term limit for all politicians. The minute they start worrying about getting re-elected they start opening their wallets to special interests. Doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat, politicians do not ge better with age. Two term limits are useless. They need to understand that they only get one shot. And there needs to be 5 year waiting period before a politician can work as a lobbyist after leaving office.

Also, if your state takes out more in federal spending than it pays in on federal income taxes (predominantly and ironically the most far right states), then all that money should be returned to the states that are getting short-changed (the most left wing). For states with major military installations those funds should be given directly to the military officials running those bases and should not make their way into the state budget through any other means. If roads or any other infrastructure in or near a base need to be improved, the military facility should fix those and not the state govt. The states should be forced to balance their books on their own state's share of federal and state income taxes. Some of these states are receiving $2 in federal spending for every $1 of federal taxes paid. That needs to stop.

[RandallNeighbour]

Perfectlap for president!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Perfectlap

The source of our $14 Trillion debt is NOT from govt workers or politician pay checks.

Quite the contrary it is from govt payments to PRIVATE citizens in the form of Medicare and more in Social Security checks than the recipients payed in before retirement. Toss in a few off-budget unfunded wars, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter costing upwards of $12 billion, F/A Hornets costing $2 billion, air craft carrier replacement nearing $3 billion, Predator and Reapers drones costing $2 billion all totaling over a trillion and half dollars in military and counter-terror.
We used to be able to offset those entitlement and defense costs from manufacturing but over the last decade we gave that away so that Wal-Mart could stock its shelves with cheap flat panel TVs, Ipads, yo gaba gaba t-shirts, comforters, shoes and other communist made products.
But the easy thing to do is to blame Congress and govt while WE are the ones who elected the very "pro-business" govts that set into motion the outsourcing of our economy (for NOTHING) and deregulation of the banks who wasted no time in ruining our vitally important credit flow.

Defense spending, which accounted for almost 1/4 of the entire US budget last year, 60% of discretionary spending, and was 7-8 times more than the entire rest of the world spent put together, is a huge issue. I spent 24 years in the service only to see it become an unsustainable drain on our country.

And you are correct, bank deregulation is probably our biggest problem at this point, along with the amount of corporate money and influence in politics.

It's very sad.

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Originally Posted by Perfectlap

^ one term limit for all politicians. The minute they start worrying about getting re-elected they start opening their wallets to special interests. Doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat, politicians do not ge better with age. Two term limits are useless. They need to understand that they only get one shot. And there needs to be 5 year waiting period before a politician can work as a lobbyist after leaving office.

Also, if your state takes out more in federal spending than it pays in on federal income taxes (predominantly and ironically the most far right states), then all that money should be returned to the states that are getting short-changed (the most left wing). For states with major military installations those funds should be given directly to the military officials running those bases and should not make their way into the state budget through any other means. If roads or any other infrastructure in or near a base need to be improved, the military facility should fix those and not the state govt. The states should be forced to balance their books on their own state's share of federal and state income taxes. Some of these states are receiving $2 in federal spending for every $1 of federal taxes paid. That needs to stop.

I'm not crazy about 1 term. The turn over would be to great and you would lose too much experience all at one time. I think 3 terms is a much better and workable solution.

+11ty on the 5 year ban on lobbying, but as Newt has demonstrated, you can lobby unofficially and not be called a lobbyist.

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Originally Posted by san rensho

Shame, shame, Danger. You gotta stop drinking that Bachman/Palin cool aid. Its not healthy.

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