As you can see, it actually makes the situation even worse in CA, as a new and more progressive batch of people is replacing the term-limited ones every election...
Back to the OP topic: I guess I'm not the only one who literally day dreams and pretends I go back in time and tell the Founding Fathers what happens!
My humble suggestions:
Bill of Rights is written into the Constitution itself as Articles, not Amendments.
Term limits (California sucks, but overall I think it's a good idea) (3 terms for the House, 2 terms for Senators??)
Term limits for the Supreme Court (10 Years? 15 Years perhaps?)
Congress is a non-paying job! (Back in the day, you had farmers, lawyers, doctors, etc. volunteering to be in Congress, while in session. Then they went back to their ACTUAL LIFE and ACTUAL JOB.
Government employees' pay is tied to some sort of median income of the entire US.
NO INCOME TAXES - Hardwired into the Constitution and no Amendment can undo it.
NO CENTRAL BANK (Federal Reserve) - Hardwired; cannot be undone!
FOIA (Freedom of Information Act is hardwired into Constitution. Obviously there are some things that need to be sensitive, classified, etc., but the People should be able to know anything about those they elected. (Where did those Senators make their tens of millions of dollars?!?!?!)
Further clarify what a "natural born citizen" is!! (no anchor babies!) Mom and Dad have to be REAL U.S. citizens!
Shit, while we're at it, maybe we need to say that you have to me a Male or Female. No non-binary B.S. (Can you imagine what any of the people from the 18th Century would think about this shit?)
NO DUAL CITIZENSHIP, ever! (Why are there Senators who are citizens of the USA and... Israel, for example? Looking at you, Chucky Schumer and Adam Shitt!) (There is something about Jewish people getting Israeli citizenship conferred upon them if they visit Israel; but I am not an expert) And almost all of them are.. Democrats. Weird, that.
Ban muslims from government; maybe ban them from the country. Do some research: Our founding fathers were fighting muslims back in the 1700s and 1800s. It was a big concern, even "back then." It's not just since 9/11. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, by Brian Kilmeade Amazing book and AMAZING author!!
Re-word the 2nd Amend. to separate out "militia" and "the right to keep and bear arms" (Too many people think you should only have a gun if you're in a well-regulated militia, and they think that means the actual military.)
Include footnotes and references in the Constitution as superscript text!
Include references to the Federalist Papers.
Footnotes and references further define what things mean, so it will be harder for Courts to come up with their own interpretation.
Certain things cannot be undone with an amendment. For example: the 2A would be hard-wired into the Constitution, not the Bill of Rights, and no matter how many States might want to change it, they cannot!
1st Amendment is hard-wired into the Constitution, cannot be undone by any future Amendment, and is worded to included future media that the Founding Fathers simply couldn't have imagined (TV, Internet, Radio, TheDonald.win)
National animal is the Bald Eagle and the national reptile is Pepe. (Also, the Consitution orders all Bald Eagles to get a new "call". Seriously, have you heard a bald eagle? It's... weak sauce.) :)
All politicians can be bought. The question is if buying the politician returns more value than the cost of buying them.
The idea behind term limits is to increase the cost: having to buy a politician each limit means more expense for those influencing government.
But there's another way to solve the problem: reducing politicians power. That way the return isn't greater than the cost.
The latter solution is a hundred-fold better than the former. Not only does it grant more freedom to the citizenry, think about the other side of the equation: "Politician X is bought of... so what?"
So you are very correct: Eliminate a lot of the government bullshit programs (power) and we won't even care if the Rockefellers have bought off a politician.
Ok. There's another angle: make bribing a politician a capital offense. It used to be. Not a perfect solution, but nothing is. That's why we need multiple solutions.
Our entire system of government is constructed for the purposes of reducing politicians power. Yet, politicians always find no end of ways to take more power. Good luck taking it back from them in a timely and convenient manner.
Term limits are a stop gap mechanism that immediately eliminates the ability for politicians to make a career out of politics. And it makes it too costly to buy political favors when officials are being constantly recycled.
Separation of powers, electoral college, the bicameral legislature, the constitution itself, lower courts, higher courts, executive orders... all of these features were put in place to reduce politicians power.
Yet here we are electing a man who is fighting tooth and nail against a bloated, corrupt, horrendously over bearing establishment to drain the swamp.
We wouldn't be having these problems if there had been term limits all along.
They just buy the entire party instead. Who controls the RNC/DNC? Not you the people, which is why the DNCcan ignore that Bernie wins their elections every year
The problem is foreign interference in our government and culture. Not by Russia or China though. The real interference is from ‘the people who shall not be named’
The career congressmen are just the tip of the surface of the swamp. The real swamp is composed of government employees and contractors that are fairly isolated from the changes in D.C. The alphabet agencies and the Pentagon are the real reasons the swamp exists.
Which is why the feds should be spread around country - if only for continuation of government survivability. One fat dirty bomb and you have govt and intel shutdown for years.
There needs to be a permanent moratorium on anyone representing the people who isn't an elected official or member of the president's cabinet.
Shut down or consolidate the vast majority of alphabet soup agencies and then reduce the remaining ones to congressional committees and make our elected officials handle those matters. Lord knows congress loves their f-king committees anyway.
Well You add Term Limits + Jungle Primary and you get CA.
Term Limits are not that bad, they work. The Problem is often in CA the illegals are allowed to vote and its counted against those who live in the state. Why you ask because the Liberals believe even if you live in the state you get the 'right' to vote, even if you are not a legal citizen of the country. So pretty much breathing air in CA equates to a vote in elections.
The sad part is the 'so called' liberty groups have never sued the state to enforce Prop 8, and Prop 187 as well challenge the EO that allows the state to unionize. They say things to obtain money...but never go through on anything unless its a pet project they know they will win...so it keeps the racket going.
It doesn't really help much. See California state term limits:
https://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/content/elected-officials
As you can see, it actually makes the situation even worse in CA, as a new and more progressive batch of people is replacing the term-limited ones every election...
Separation of Economy and State
Wow...incredibly salient point!
Back to the OP topic: I guess I'm not the only one who literally day dreams and pretends I go back in time and tell the Founding Fathers what happens!
My humble suggestions:
Mises and Rothbard has it right!
isnt that the federal reserve?
Government granted monopoly, so no.
All politicians can be bought. The question is if buying the politician returns more value than the cost of buying them.
The idea behind term limits is to increase the cost: having to buy a politician each limit means more expense for those influencing government.
But there's another way to solve the problem: reducing politicians power. That way the return isn't greater than the cost.
The latter solution is a hundred-fold better than the former. Not only does it grant more freedom to the citizenry, think about the other side of the equation: "Politician X is bought of... so what?"
So you are very correct: Eliminate a lot of the government bullshit programs (power) and we won't even care if the Rockefellers have bought off a politician.
Ok. There's another angle: make bribing a politician a capital offense. It used to be. Not a perfect solution, but nothing is. That's why we need multiple solutions.
"reducing politicians power."
Our entire system of government is constructed for the purposes of reducing politicians power. Yet, politicians always find no end of ways to take more power. Good luck taking it back from them in a timely and convenient manner.
Term limits are a stop gap mechanism that immediately eliminates the ability for politicians to make a career out of politics. And it makes it too costly to buy political favors when officials are being constantly recycled.
Separation of powers, electoral college, the bicameral legislature, the constitution itself, lower courts, higher courts, executive orders... all of these features were put in place to reduce politicians power.
Yet here we are electing a man who is fighting tooth and nail against a bloated, corrupt, horrendously over bearing establishment to drain the swamp.
We wouldn't be having these problems if there had been term limits all along.
They just buy the entire party instead. Who controls the RNC/DNC? Not you the people, which is why the DNCcan ignore that Bernie wins their elections every year
The problem is foreign interference in our government and culture. Not by Russia or China though. The real interference is from ‘the people who shall not be named’
I think it would have prevented or at least reduced swamp formation if enacted at the beginning
The career congressmen are just the tip of the surface of the swamp. The real swamp is composed of government employees and contractors that are fairly isolated from the changes in D.C. The alphabet agencies and the Pentagon are the real reasons the swamp exists.
Draining the swamp doesn't mean increase the turnover rate of the water. It means take away the power of government so the water never returns.
Then over time the slime accumulates and we're up to our eyeballs in muck again.
Terms limits aren't a pump. They're a dam.
"The chickens come home to roost." These people you refer to actually state that POTUS' efforts interfere with their agenda.
Which is why the feds should be spread around country - if only for continuation of government survivability. One fat dirty bomb and you have govt and intel shutdown for years.
There needs to be a permanent moratorium on anyone representing the people who isn't an elected official or member of the president's cabinet.
Shut down or consolidate the vast majority of alphabet soup agencies and then reduce the remaining ones to congressional committees and make our elected officials handle those matters. Lord knows congress loves their f-king committees anyway.
Well You add Term Limits + Jungle Primary and you get CA.
Term Limits are not that bad, they work. The Problem is often in CA the illegals are allowed to vote and its counted against those who live in the state. Why you ask because the Liberals believe even if you live in the state you get the 'right' to vote, even if you are not a legal citizen of the country. So pretty much breathing air in CA equates to a vote in elections.
The sad part is the 'so called' liberty groups have never sued the state to enforce Prop 8, and Prop 187 as well challenge the EO that allows the state to unionize. They say things to obtain money...but never go through on anything unless its a pet project they know they will win...so it keeps the racket going.
Nothing wrong with that if that is what the people really want.