Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: economy Message-ID: <1019@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 08:49:09 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1019 Posted: Thu Oct 4 08:49:09 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 03:43:03 EDT References: <855@ihuxe.UUCP>, <847@opus.UUCP>, <1014@pyuxa.UUCP>, <156@hocsf.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 58 Hooray for Sharon B., she hit the nail on the head with that article. It has been my contention for many a year that congressmen and senators should have a limited number of terms that they can serve. This problem has only become rampant within the last 30 years. There was a time when congressmen and senators left office for more lucrative pursuits, but, with these knuckleheads finding out how to raise their salary and make money on the side, they fight tooth and nail to stay in office. How, just how, can someone justify spending one million dollars to gain a two year seat in Congress? The salary is not that great. Must be somthing else, eeh? I don't give a damn which party, Republican, Democrat, or First Annual Meadow, no person should be allowed to continue in office for the obscene lengths some of them have. If all they think about is reelection, then the whole country suffers. I say throw the bums out. Let's get some fresh ideas from people who are not continually thinking only to the next election. And furthermore, outlaw the PACs that have eaten their way into the very fabric of our government. We have a congressman in our district who has picked up 95% of his campaign money from PACs, all of which are out of his district. He will be spending the 5th highest amount of money on his reelection bid in the country. All of you folks who are crying in your beer about the presidential campaign, get off your duffs and look around at your local congressmen and congresswomen and senators. Here is the real problem. The congress and senate have been spending your money like drunken sailors (no offense to sailors, it's an old cliche I like to use). Even as I write, congress is busy tacking pork barrel legislation to the spending bill because they know it HAS to be passed or the government goes out of business. As a matter of record, the senate has been in session for the past 24 hours doing just that. Get mad. Get educated. Tell those Bozos that your MAD AS HELL AND YOU AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. In my opinion, congress presents a far greater danger to our future than the presidency. The president has a very narrow choice of actions that can be taken while congress can act with impunity until the courts decide to restrain them. Meanwhile, they get away with burying the populace with spending, gladhanding, and outright lies. They will tell you one thing at home, then fly off to Washington and do just the opposite. Whether you agree with your congressman or not, you should examine everything he/she says or does with a large dose of skepticism. My solution is to throw the rascals out after 6 years in the House, 10 years in the Senate, and 8 years in the White House. Only one of those is true now. If we had a congress that was not continually looking to the next election, we might get a little more response to our real worries and needs. I also feel sure that spending would begin to drop as they stopped trying to pay off certain segments of the population for their support. T. C. Wheeler