Posted on 08/20/2009 8:27:28 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Potential U.S. Senate candidate Peter Schiff has a very simple plan for Washington D.C. Get rid of the politicians.
“We need citizens, people who are in the private sector, to come to Washington, to really get a job done, and then to leave,” Schiff told Newsmax TV’s Dan Mangru.
Individuals who become career politicians, such as his potential opponent Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn), are what’s wrong with Congress in Schiff’s opinion because eventually they get assimilated into Washington D.C. culture.
Schiff points out that Dodd has never actually worked in the private sector, never ran a business, and has never had to live under the regulations that he writes.
On the other hand, Schiff has worked in the private sector all of his life and is currently the President of Euro-Pacific Capital.
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ping!
This is an excellent platform to run on in 2010.
Here’s my proposal; don’t vote for anyone with a law degree.
Mind you, it’s valuable to have a lawyer’s advice when writing laws. But they should be used as consultants. When lawyers are legislators, we confuse the issue of how a law is crafted to achieve an end with determining what the end should be in the first place. Lawyers have special expertise that’s valuable for the former. They have no special expertise in the latter and numerous conflicts of interest.
DO NOT FORGET TO PURGE THE CAREER BUREAUCRATS!
Agreed
doesnt matter which party
And PURGE the MSM!!!
Throw them all out, make term limits the law.
I was thinking about keeping lawyers out of government and a good discouragement might be a law (or even Constitutional Amendment) prohibiting anyone who has been a legislator from arguing or judging a case in court for 5 (or maybe even 10) years or anyone who has argued a case in court in the past 5 (or even 10) years from becoming a legislator. The purpose would be as clear as the purpose of prohibiting legislators from giving themselves a raise that takes effect before the next election.
Average Joe's like Sarah Palin and Mr. Schiff that have common sense and will drain the freakin swamp.
That ad on TV about what if Fireman ran the House and Senate is spot on.
My money is on this lady from Texas a nurse that is running against the Dem and that politican with the too good hair Perry.
Any Politican with really good hair shoudl not be be in office, Pomney and Edwards are two good examples....
I have been sayiong for eon's if Michael Steele had any cohones, he would as for a letter of resignation effective in 2011 from all Republicans and field a clean slate of 535 - 66 to run in 2010 that have never been politicans before....
*cough*Sarah Palin*cough*
His problem is similar to Palin’s when she was not prepared to debate national issues in late August early September and got ripped by the MSM and liberals.
If you show up and dont understand the details of the major issues/democrat initiatives (Health care, immigration) the media will have you for lunch.
Join the 535 Club. Remove the 535 current members of Congress and replace them with 535 new members.
The only way that getting rid of the career politicians would be an improvement, would be if the Federal Government were drastically reduced at the same time.
Sounds like a good plan ... though it's probably not a realistic one until something very bad happens.
The biggest obstacle for Schiff will be winning the GOP nomination over RINO Rob Simmons who is the CT Republican machine’s anointed. Beating Dodd will be a cakewalk after that.
I am ready to hit the “reset” button and I mean purge them all!
Storm the “Bastille”. Off with their heads!
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