I like the punishments list suggested in the comments.
Better would be a automatic reduction of 25% of last years budget across the board if they don’t get a new one adopted.
And thrown them out of office for life. Any office. Including Dog Catcher!
While I like the idea I think we’ve lost sight of the real issue. Rules do not end corruption. Ending corruption brings about good rules.
Making any good rule with the corrupt in power is just a finger in the dike exercise. The problem is the generation we’ve created that things OWS is some kind of intellectual movement. We need to end the department of education and give vouchers to parents. The problems we now have will take generations to fix and only if we actually fix them.
Thinks… just let your fingers do the spelling!
Brainstorm: Simple majority to pass a continuation of last year’s budget. X% of congress to pass a budget scaled 2X% of last year’s. Still might be a bad budget, but makes it a lot easier to pass a budget that shrinks year over year as opposed to growing.
Consider the alternative that Congress members should get $1 million per House member and $4.35 million per Senator for every trillion less they spend than this year’s 24% of GDP whether they pass a budget or not.
I like the punishments list suggested in the comments.
Better would be a automatic reduction of 25% of last years budget across the board if they don’t get a new one adopted.
And thrown them out of office for life. Any office. Including Dog Catcher!
While I like the idea I think we’ve lost sight of the real issue. Rules do not end corruption. Ending corruption brings about good rules.
Making any good rule with the corrupt in power is just a finger in the dike exercise. The problem is the generation we’ve created that things OWS is some kind of intellectual movement. We need to end the department of education and give vouchers to parents. The problems we now have will take generations to fix and only if we actually fix them.
Thinks… just let your fingers do the spelling!
Brainstorm: Simple majority to pass a continuation of last year’s budget. X% of congress to pass a budget scaled 2X% of last year’s. Still might be a bad budget, but makes it a lot easier to pass a budget that shrinks year over year as opposed to growing.
Consider the alternative that Congress members should get $1 million per House member and $4.35 million per Senator for every trillion less they spend than this year’s 24% of GDP whether they pass a budget or not.