THROW THE BUMS OUT

Here’s a different outlook: let’s throw out the entire Congress and randomly pick out 535 ordinary citizens to replace them as Senators and Congressmen. The whole bunch is crooked and stink to high heaven. Everyone makes deals with everyone else and with each deal the congressmen win and the public loses.

I hear you saying “But they have the experience”. That is the whole trouble, they all have too much experience. They know how to get around legal obstacles; they know how to write a law that benefits certain people, but not the general public; they scratch each other’s back and exchange votes. That is why there is no integrity in Congress today. That is why they are destroying this country and that is why they should all be run out of office.

Then we should replace the president and the vice-president with two more randomly chosen people. Because of the increased responsibility they should be given a simple test to ensure that they have leadership qualities, but mostly to make sure they are empathetic and caring of all Americans.

If all of this could be accomplished we would have much better representative government than we do now.

The California Curmudgeon