<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">That said, I support any Congressional panel to dig out the truth</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
re any of the things we are discussing. bill w</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I don't. Why bother? The problem is not a few leftoids infesting DC. There is a structural problem that won't be solved by investigations.</div><div><br></div><div>The fifth estate does not act under a feedback loop. While your grocery is on the tightest leash possible (daily easy exit by individual informed customers), your senator is under a much weaker and distorted feedback loop (occasional votes), the deep government is essentially under nobody's control. You can't threaten them physically (strongest feedback known), refuse them your cooperation/money (second strongest loop), you can't run away, all you can is to use your 1/100 000 000 voice to influencing somebody else (the 0.01% of the government that you can contribute to electing) and hope that 0.01% you have under a weak feedback loop would control the remaining 99.99%.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's a pipe dream.</div><div><br></div><div>The only solution is term limits for every single government employee, from the janitors up. Ten years and you are out. No exceptions, not for rank and file penpushers, not for middle management, not for scientists, not for generals, not for anyone. That's the only long-term way to prevent the accumulation of hypocritical, status-obsessed scum in the corridors of power. They say "Power corrupts"? Well, let's protect innocent people from corruption by making sure they don't have power long enough to soil their precious little souls.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And while we are at it, let's take away their civil rights while employed there - no right to vote during and for 10 years after leaving government employment (same for anybody receiving welfare, of course).</div>
<div><br></div><div>And let's have an IQ test as a civil service entrance exam.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, this won't happen. Some problems, seemingly under human control, actually don't have solutions.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Talk about pipe dreams! Some of what you suggest takes a Constitutional amendment - nearly impossible. Slightly less improbably: try to get a new congressman to vow to limit his terms, say two for a Senator and five for a Representative. It's got to start somewhere. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I have no idea what it would take to change Civil Service rules. Anybody?<br><br>bill w</div>
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