How to stop the hatred for Congress

[Jesse]

You pay them what an average person on SS retired or otherwise gets which is about 12,400 a year I think.
They make over 6 figures. its completely hilarious these assholes have no problem cutting benefits for the rest of us but when it comes time to vote in a pay raise for themselves I don't think they have ever taken a pay cut.

You wanna tell some guy making 12 thousand dollars a year that foodstamps are a bad choice for him and possibly his family, and yet you take like a three month "break" and hardly do any work exept bitch and complain about how jesus Christ gets no love in the schools and oh by the way if you have an abortion your going to hell? All the while the country teaters on disaster of finachial ruin you play with yet, more Idealogical BS.

I think If you pay these people a meager salary because shouldn't public service come from the generation of Ideas, and not how much does the job pay? Of course it should. I particularly hate the "Tan" man, The guy that looks like a fucking Turtle in the Senate, Eric Cantor the Jew boy who loves Jesus, and That fuckface Paul Ryan. These Jaggoffs need to thrown into the ocean head first, bound and of course lit on fire before checking out the bottom of the Ocean, where they will meet Posidan and really learn the meaning of True godly power.

Do you have any Ideas for making Congress better? Tell us here. 

[conlang returns]

We have what I think is an admirable, yet still incomplete, system of checks and balances in this country.  While to my knowledge every constitutional amendment to date has come out of congress, section V of the constitution provides for the states to call for a constitutional convention that can write amendments, and these amendments will be sent to the state legislators as if they had passed congress.  That's the only realistic option we have now for taking away congress's ability to vote itself a pay-raise.  Some state legislators may see the national legislature on their career path.  Yet, they are closer in terms of time, place, and money to the people who actually voted for them than national legislators.

Wolf-PAC is currently trying to use the same legal structure to end corporate personhood and remove the status of "speech act" from the spending of money.  If they get such a convention, it may be worth it to contact whoever is chosen to attend and try to get that in.  I'm all in favor of less corporate control of elections, and I think that'll make congress much more responsible.  But the congressional salary thing irks me as well. 

[RageBeoulve]

We have what I think is an admirable, yet still incomplete, system of checks and balances in this country.  While to my knowledge every constitutional amendment to date has come out of congress, section V of the constitution provides for the states to call for a constitutional convention that can write amendments, and these amendments will be sent to the state legislators as if they had passed congress.  That's the only realistic option we have now for taking away congress's ability to vote itself a pay-raise.  Some state legislators may see the national legislature on their career path.  Yet, they are closer in terms of time, place, and money to the people who actually voted for them than national legislators.

Wolf-PAC is currently trying to use the same legal structure to end corporate personhood and remove the status of "speech act" from the spending of money.  If they get such a convention, it may be worth it to contact whoever is chosen to attend and try to get that in.  I'm all in favor of less corporate control of elections, and I think that'll make congress much more responsible.  But the congressional salary thing irks me as well.

That made me moist. 

[conlang returns]

We have what I think is an admirable, yet still incomplete, system of checks and balances in this country.  While to my knowledge every constitutional amendment to date has come out of congress, section V of the constitution provides for the states to call for a constitutional convention that can write amendments, and these amendments will be sent to the state legislators as if they had passed congress.  That's the only realistic option we have now for taking away congress's ability to vote itself a pay-raise.  Some state legislators may see the national legislature on their career path.  Yet, they are closer in terms of time, place, and money to the people who actually voted for them than national legislators.

Wolf-PAC is currently trying to use the same legal structure to end corporate personhood and remove the status of "speech act" from the spending of money.  If they get such a convention, it may be worth it to contact whoever is chosen to attend and try to get that in.  I'm all in favor of less corporate control of elections, and I think that'll make congress much more responsible.  But the congressional salary thing irks me as well.

That made me moist. 

[MLA]

Very few members of Congress rely on their salary, they are mostly millionaires.

[RageBeoulve]

Very few members of Congress rely on their salary, they are mostly millionaires.

This would be a better president than the last two. Not even joking.

[conlang returns]

Very few members of Congress rely on their salary, they are mostly millionaires.

Plato had his leaders completely property-less, fed only by the community.  I dislike many of his ideas, but I kinda like that one 

[TheoK]

Very few members of Congress rely on their salary, they are mostly millionaires.

Plato had his leaders completely property-less, fed only by the community.  I dislike many of his ideas, but I kinda like that one 

 

[McGiver]

Very few members of Congress rely on their salary, they are mostly millionaires.

Plato had his leaders completely property-less, fed only by the community.  I dislike many of his ideas, but I kinda like that one 

she has a point. 
Millionaires are the ones who effectively run campaigns.
I agree with your point above about corporate personhood.  But we also need publicly funded campaigns.
I believe NYC is currently working on that type of law.

[RageBeoulve]

I like the propertyless leader idea, but its going the other way.

[McGiver]

I like the propertyless leader idea, but its going the other way.

i like the part where you are a homeless man, giving blowjobs behinds the dumpster for money.

[TheoK]

They live in a community where property doesn't really belong to anyone. In that society you can't get homeless.

[conlang returns]

Passing along an idea I heard from a woman I met yesterday at a public hearing.  She says we should require all representatives to stay in their home district, and commute digitally.  That way, they will be within driving or even walking distance of the people they represent. 

[RageBeoulve]

I like the propertyless leader idea, but its going the other way.

i like the part where you are a homeless man, giving blowjobs behinds the dumpster for money.

You like nonexistent things, then. Your gay fantasies are your own business, sir.

[Parts]

Very few members of Congress rely on their salary, they are mostly millionaires.

And if they are not they soon are after they leave congress and get jobs as lobbyists or somewhere else they can use their influence.  I feel many would do the job for free just for that reason