Friday, January 2, 2015

Ethics Training?

Teach Congress a Lesson is laughable in its earnestness.  Asking congress men and women to act ethically when they are in a perpetual campaign money raising mode so as to get reelected is an impossible request, no matter how well it is taught. The only counter to the influence of rent seekers looking for government to bend the rules their way is to reduce the investment value of a politician's career with term limits.  Currently its impossible to ask Congress to put term limits on its members by drawing an Amendment to be ratified by the States.  I recently discovered the possibility of States having conventions that could begin the Amendment ratification process and leave Congress's incumbents out of it.   Terms limits for Congressmen and Senators would be a simple to write long term remedy to our national sclerosis and as an Amendment would increase our liberty.  

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