Proposed Constitutional Amendment #28
"POLITICAL FINANCE REFORM"
"POLITICAL FINANCE REFORM"
With the money on the table perhaps we could eliminate legalized political bribery by "reforming the way we finance our politics" in a single, resounding, one-time, all encompassing win/win constitutional amendment - keeping SCOTUS out of it.
With this amendment, the voting masses would hold near absolute control over our politician's #1 career opportunity #2 job security #3 personal enrichment #4 social status #5 retirement security - not special interest groups, which as it is, appears to defy logic.
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Do I think they deserve millions? That's irrelevant. The question is, do they think they're worth millions. Apparently so, and they're in position to do something about it at our expense, which costs us thousands of times more.
The question remaining: Can we get past our rage towards congress to act logically?
Removal does not appear to be the answer. Replacing politicians - or even changing parties - is clearly not working and changes nothing literally rendering our voting power impotent!
While some might feel that many Congressional members deserve to be imprisoned for larceny, fraud and conducting war under false pretenses; that is impractical as Congress is unlikely to allow laws that imprison themselves. In fact, they could be considered "victims of the system" which they inherited, that in its current form requires their financial dependence on private industry.
Conclusion: Fix The Broken System - The Rest Should Take Care of Itself
Let's treat the cause - Political Bribery - rather than applying temporary band-aids to the symptoms - reform attempts.
Who thought that resolving "the issue of our generation" would be painless? Doesn't this solution appear to be far less painful than the looming alternatives - catastrophic economic failure and middle class collapse?
Had we implemented this upgrade to our system a decade ago, would we revile Congress today? If we don't do this, what will it be like ten years from now? With our politicians' complete financial dependence - and therefore possibly their undivided loyalty - what would environmental, bank, energy, tax and healthcare reform look like?
Our petition to remove private money from politics goes straight to Congress.
Let us all pray for the day when we can look back on "The Era of Legalized Political Bribery" as we do slavery - and wonder in amazement how we ever allowed it to exist in the first place.
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