This will probably go four posts and die.

You're giving three things you can change to fix America, what would they be and explain how they would fix America.

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1A. Make all current sitting elected officials ineligible for public service when their current terms expire.
1B. Allow no elected official to serve more than one term in a particular office, and in no more than two elected offices in his/her lifetime.

Power corrupts. If an elected official can't get it done in one term, it isn't worth doing. And it's probably not worth doing anyway.

2. Make unconstitutional any law or regulation that fails to have an expiration date within three years of its passage, and make "re-enactment" of any expiring law require a supermajority of all legislatures involved.

Virtually no law not in the common law of crimes and torts for several hundred years, or in a constitution, has enough oomph that it should infringe upon people's choices for anything other than a limited amount of time.

3. Not allow any bill to be voted on until each voting representative has publicly read the entire law verbatim out loud in enough public venues (NOT TV or streaming internet either) that hold the current population of his constituency.
One of the biggest crocks of shit in modern lawmaking is that thousands of pages of "rules" are passed without even the people voting on them reading them in their entirety, much less having the details published in a way designed for the public to easily pay attention.


All three changes, taken together: would also help fix America by weaning us from the "there oughta be a law" notions that the function of government is to be our mummies and daddies.

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1) All laws that are Unconstitutional immediately get discarded.

2) 75% of the planet suddenly becomes irreversibly sterile.

3) For the third, I think I'd like to have a nice Guinness and a juicy hamburger and fries.

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No more tort court. You broke it, you bought it, but no more.

Everyone serves. Military or civillian, you serve in some capacity. Make all better citizens.

Straight taxes, a percentage of revenue. No deductions, everyone pays their fair share, personal and corporate.

President, house, Senate and Judges. 6 year term, no re-elections. (All federal judges.) President selects 'em. No congressional oversight/ ridiculous hearings, etc. Judges at every level must come from the construction trades in order to be eligible for consideration, and those carpenters, etc. that got a law degree along the way would be ineligible for the position.

Whoa. That's some good stuff Foster. Agreed with all of it.

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Zombie-personally, I was finding your third item to be pretty seductive... 🤤

1. Make people less selfish. Rich, poor, inbetween, everyone. People can't stop thinking about themselves for 10 damn seconds
2. ???
3. A Brewers WS win

1. Reversing the need for materialsism should take care of about everything.

2. Make it illegal for business to make anything more than 20% margins on goods or services.

3. Make actual fair labor laws that would eliminate the need for unions, but also take away business rights to fuck over employees.

I realize 2 & 3 destroy capitalism, but seriously, who we fucking kidding with that word anymore? Corporations are capitalists, entrepeneurs are Republican sheeple.

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Er, but Troy, you yourself are an entrepreneur. Does that make you a Republican sheepie?

[grin1]

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I'm trying to right the ship!

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