Who says Congress doesn't get anything done?

I would happily pay congress ten times their salary if they agreed to take legislative recess from Jan 1 to Dec 31 of each year.

Although they could convene from time to time to pass laws I approve of - that would be OK. Consult with me, vote, and get back to the beach - that's my idea of a perfect legislature.

No one could argue with that, now, could they?

MB

 

I thought being a Congressmen was just an intership to beciming a lobbyist.

 

Gee, they get cost of living raise and then automatic pay raises?

Why them and not.....Firemen.....Policemen.....Nurses.....Teachers.

Anyone see a pattern here?

 

I went to a private boarding school for a couple of years. The students had to take turns washing the pots and dishes in the kitchen. We had a student senate, and the only thing they ever did was vote to exempt themselves from kitchen duty, on the grounds that their student senate meetings constituted an equivalent "service" to the school.

Clearly, they understood what government is all about.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 28 2007, 07:13 PM) [snapback]469743[/snapback]</div>

Are they currently elected to various public offices?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jun 28 2007, 05:32 PM) [snapback]469747[/snapback]</div>

I have no idea. It was a very poor school (how I ended up there is a long story) for rich kids. Half of my graduating class was unable to get accepted to any college. I was the top student in my class, but that means nothing at all because the average level was so abysmal. So, my classmates were rich and stupid. In other words, they had all the requirements for going into politics. I did not keep in contact with any of them, or with the school. So I cannot offer any solid information. But the only thing most of them were qualified for was organized crime, politics (a sub-field of organized crime), or indolence. Had they not been rich, they'd have become manual laborers or panhandlers.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 29 2007, 08:30 AM) [snapback]469965[/snapback]</div>

Oh, I'm sure any of them that wanted to go to college were accepted. After all, I'm sure some college somewhere needed a new gymnasium that Daddy could pay for.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jun 28 2007, 05:13 PM) [snapback]469743[/snapback]</div>

My, my. For a socialist at heart, you had quite a bourgeois upbringing.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jun 29 2007, 08:48 AM) [snapback]470058[/snapback]</div>

No. Colleges have to maintain deniability, and these kids left no wiggle room against the charge that they had no place in a classroom. Note, however, that that was only about half the class. The other half got in. Maybe those were the ones whose daddies were willing to endow a stadium.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IsrAmeriPrius @ Jun 29 2007, 12:09 PM) [snapback]470195[/snapback]</div>

Capitalist on my father's side, communist on my mother's side. After the divorce we were moderately poor at home, but my schooling was paid for by my dad. The divorce had nothing to do with the difference in economic theory, however. My capitalist dad was a fellow traveler, and married another communist, with whom he remained for half a century, until her death.