"Gus" wrote in message
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Hawke wrote:
That sounds like a good idea but there is a problem. Even though the
Congress has an approval rating of 29% ,when polled, 57% of people say
they
are happy with their own representative. So between the horrible way
districts have been gerrymandered, and the fact that the majority of
people
are satisfied with their own representatives, it's not likely there's
ever
going to be a big blow out of incumbents.

What needs to happen is for about 50% or more of the people in congress
to
be sent home. That would send a message to the rest that their normal
corrupt business practices wouldn't be tolerated any more and the new
50%
wouldn't know how to cheat the public for a few years. But our problem
is
us. The American people simply won't vote the people in Congress out of
power. As long as they keep sending the same people back to do the same
thing year after year nothing is going to change. Funny isn't it,
Americans
complain to high heavens about the government and about the corrupt
people
in Washington but when they get the chance to put someone else in office
they refuse to do it. So maybe the problem isn't the folks in office but
it's the people voting for them. What's that line of Einstein's about
doing
the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Americans
must
just be insane.


I think you're on to something. How about term limits?

At least we know that's one way to force a turnover, probably the only way
too.

Hawke