Why in the world do you think numbers pulled out of the air would solve anything? This has already been analyzed and thought out. It's called Simpson-Bowles and we should just do it. It's not perfect and it would be painful but it beats the shit out of arbitrary numbers.
more like guarantees to old people. social insecurity, medifraud, pubic pensions did I miss anything?
Evidently I've been far too lenient on your sorry ass oldtime. Perhaps that's because you're nothing but a bomb throwing troll.(who'll always take the position of devil's advocate to garner attention) Anyway , just putting you on notice that your grace period has been canceled motherfucker.
The fox is guarding the hen house. Corruption has permeated our government. That's why our constitution no longer is effective. There weren't enough safeguards put in place. The people who founded the country couldn't imagine the filth that would ever be able to gain control.
I always felt the lack of term limits was a mistake. The founders believed that the voting booth was the term limit. Perhaps they didn't realize that voters could be bought just as politicians could.
Exactly. But trying to get them in now is nearly impossible. No more that just a few sitting Senators and Represenatives would ever support it. We were fortunate that we got term limits on the President when we did.
In their defense back then only productive responsible citizens could vote. That being the case you wouldn't necessarily need term limits. Now of course anyone with a heart beat can vote. They don't have to be productive they don't have own property and they don't have to pay taxes they don't even have to be registered voters. Hell, even dead people and Disney characters vote these days. Hence the need for term limits now.