How to get rid of our corrupt politicians – guaranteed

I hear lots of talk about needing a term limit constitutional amendment to get rid of our federal politicians as they don’t know how to stop spending borrowed money. A trillion dollars is now the new billion!

It has as much chance of our Constitution being amended, as being able to flap your arms fast enough to fly.

So here is the solution, or solutions –

1   As the national debt goes up, the federal politicians incomes go down the next year. So, if the national debt goes up 10% in year one, the next year the politicians incomes, Senate, House and White House go down by 10%. They can still receive the standard pay, but their paychecks will have a line item deduction.

If that doesn’t make them fiscally responsible, we go to step two…

2  The same concept, but it will affect their very generous federal pensions vested after five years in office. After twelve years in office, upon leaving for some corporate Board of Directors job or similar for companies that they did favors for, their pensions will be permanently linked to the total of the prior twelve years of increase in the national debt. If the national debt goes up by 50% over the moving twelve years period, their pensions falls, permanently, by the 50%.

You’ll be shocked that so many will quit, citing health reasons and the need to “new blood” in Congress!

I haven’t even addressed what will happen if the opposite occurs, but you just reverse the decrease for those periods.

The trick will be to get them to enact this into law! The only way possible, since they know it’s economic suicide to pass this bill, is for the public to sign a pledge to never vote for them again. Give these corrupt, wastrels’ six months to pass the bill in both houses; have it signed by the president and the problem will be solved.

I’m sure that they’ll start paying close attention to the US Debt Clock. It will make a change!