Monday, March 12, 2012

Congress And The Pig Party

Make no mistake. Both parties are charter members of the Pig Party, which entitles them to vote for their own salaries, benefits including health care insurance better than citizens can get, and retirement for life at a high rate of pay for any service at all in Congress.

Why did we ever think that Congress should set its own benefits? Why did we ever think that the Pig Party members should be allowed totally free access to the feeding trough without any limits or supervision?

It seems to me a simple enough proposition: All benefits, pay, retirement and the like, should be voted on by the entire populace during Presidential elections. We're paying these Pigs, and we should be the ones who decide how much they should be paid.

And the second thing that needs to be corrected IMMEDIATELY is to stop allowing unrelated "riders" and "amendments" to bills. This obviously allows Pig Party members to attach unacceptable bills to bills that are important and necessary, and hold important up bills indefinitely in order to arrange greater access to the Pig Trough.

And the third thing we need are (is?) term limits. Although I suspect if we made the above changes they would be willing to get out faster.

And the fourth thing we need is public and LIMITED funding for advertising, tv and the like for applicants for public office. National funding for presidential elections keeps the Presidency from being sold to the candidate with the greatest access to private funds. Local funding should help keep Congressional seats from being sold to the fattest Pig. But the funding has to be limited so that the richest Piggy candidate doesn't get any advantage.

I feel better now. Thanks for listening.