I Think Its Crazy

First and foremost, I want to say that I love the idea behind the form of government of the United States. I say “idea” because if you look at the state of the government of the United States, I dont think it truly represents anymore what the framers had in mind when they drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights so many years back. In their defense, of course, nobody can see what the future is going to look like 250 years in the future. Hell, I bet most of them didnt even think the United States was going to last that long.

Congress is supposed to be a select group of people, elected by the citizens of their districts, to represent THEM and THEIR needs and wants, and have those made into law. If you really listen to candidates campaign these days, they are stumping on their OWN beliefs and desires and trying to convince YOU that THEY are right.

A true representative of the people would bring ideas to congress that they themselves might not believe in, but ARE the wants and desires of their people. When was the last time you heard of someone doing THAT?

But Congress, I believe, is also supposed to go against the wishes of the people if the requested actions would do more harm than good to the country as a whole. For instance: If everyone all of a sudden wanted to invade Mexico for some reason, Congress would have to say “No, we are not going to do that. That is not a very good idea, even if my making it a state it would solve the illegal immigration problem.”

Right now, we do not have two political parties in government. We have two warring factions. And nobody wants to introduce a third in fear that it would take away from one faction and give control of congress to the other.

Personally I want to set term limits on both the House and the Senate. These should not be lifetime appointments. Because the country is ever evolving, congress must as well. If a younger generation of people are running the inner workings of the country, then, I think, we have to have a younger generation who understands it to be running it.

You cant just kick out all the old timers though. You need to have some people around who know how to work the fine art of upper management. But they should be in more of supervisiory liasion position, helping you get things done on a day to day, but not activly participating, if you know what I mean.

I am so done with turning on the news every day just to see what argument congress started bickering over today. You fuckers need to comprimise. You are not going to get everything you wanted, so deal with it. We pay you to comprimise to get shit done. And if you are not going on, it is harder than Hell to fire you.