A plan to correct the corruption in Washington, D. C.(that will never happen)!?

Question

I have traveled, lived and worked in 42 of the U.S. states, over the last 40+ years.(As a contract q.c. inspector). The citizens of each of those states believe that their politicians are the ONLY politicians, in Washington, who are honest,sincere, and correct, the problems are with the other states politicians! In going to another state, those
citizens believe the same of their politicians! So on,and so forth. MY PLAN WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN !!!! The politicians will NEVER permit this to occure!! I call this "across the state line's voting". Lets start in Maine, those voters elect the politicians from Nevada, the Nevada voters elect those from Georgia, the Georgia voters elect those from Oregan, Oregan voters elect those from Vermont, etc. Always one state voters electing the politicians from at least 300 miles away !!!!
Folks, in one complete 6 year election cycle, we Americans can clean up the mess in Washington, D.C.!Unconstitutional?? They stomp, it daily!!!
Uncle Wil

Does this proposal cause anyone to objectively think about their states politicians??

Wigginsray. Yep, I am as crazy as anyone else who has traveled over the past 50+ years, and has seen our freedoms / rights not trampled on, BUT STOMPED TO PIECES !!!Sad the day when you are +/- 70 years old, and you look / think back to what TODAY is like, and think of the freedoms that will no longer be around !! Sad that day !!
Uncle Wil

Answer 1

If we can limit the prez to two terms, we can place term limits on congressmen. The founding fathers had no term limits on the prez, so the "founding fathers intent" argument can not apply here. Good governors could replace congressmen and presidents when their terms are up. Representatives could replace senators. Congressmen could become governors and mayors if they are worth two cents. Lobbyists would go crazy.

Answer 2

I agree that something needs to be changed, and I especially agree with the above poster. Lobbying needs to be stopped and the unification of, corporations and government needs to be purged. Capitalism would probably be worked, but corporations need to have accountability. There needs to be limits on profits... Over-profiting leads to abuse of the consumers, employees and other things across the board. Oil companies had record profits... Hmm... thats interesting, they are on tv crying about this and than, but when it comes down to it. They are abusing us to get the money they want.

Anyway, you might not thing that, what I am speaking about has a lot to do with our current government, but it really does.

One more thing that I think is, that we need to get rid of the departments, ie.. FBI, CIA, DHS, Federal Reserve, and any other security department, that do not have elected officials... These departments have free reign and have no accountability, through checks and balances... and yet they seem to have as much weight in government as our own, elected officials.

I'm done yammering...

Answer 3

Your plan has some merit to it but to help stop the corruption in Wahsington D.C. I think that all Lobbying should be banned. Buying votes just seems wrong.

Answer 4

Wouldn't really change a thing. Each state would still be voting on their preferences, just for a different state. You would still get the same number of Dems and Reps. just from different locations.

Answer 5

You're insane. your proposal would do nothing to reduce corruption - in fact I think it would make it worse by removing the accountability to the electorate.

I think the best way to get corruption out of Washington would be to adhere to the 10th amendment and get the Feds out of business they don't belong in. there's reason that State's rights were a big issue at our founding - we've gotten lazy and assume those at the highest level of power are looking out for us... they arent and we need to take control back.

Answer 6

Good idea -- not constitutionally valid. The constitution mandates that people vote for their own Congressional Reps and Senators.

Changing the district lines to eliminate gerrymandering might help -- at least it might cut down the 95+% incumbency rate.