Thread by @AumoneMaison

This thread was written by another user on VOAT and is in response to the earlier thread by Colin Kelly I sent our on Oct 1st.

"I totally agree this is a very serious existential problem. There is no easy single answer.

2. Every democracy in history before us, their economy has collapsed because their governments gave away too much money to cronies and the economy could not support it. This is a very old story. It could happen to us. Everyone believed Rome would go on forever. Then one day it

3. was no longer there. The first thing we have to do is clean up the self serving and corrupt Congress. It won't ever do it by itself. Congress is the main problem that has to addressed first. It is going to take several Convention Of States Constitutional Amendments. A simple

4. example is to require that every bill be printed and available for the public to read one full week before any vote is taken. Every law shall have an expiration date (maybe 4 years). No code of law shall be permanently on the records. We need to simplify the code. I think

5. this would force that. I think a flat tax with a low max could be written into the Constitution. We should require every vote to be a roll call and placed on the record -- period. The next thing we have to do is shut down the CIA and hand their duties over to Military

6. Intelligence and put all military spending, R&D, on the books -- no more black ops. No more expensive contractors secretly doing our dirty work for us. We need to rein in the military industrial complex. Twenty trillion dollars is unaccounted for at the Pentagon. The next

7. thing we need to do is audit everything, including Congress every year.. Next, we need to totally restructure the FED. Then each department can make their budget request, but there also needs to be reports from independent auditors. There is so much redundancy and waste. I

8. want to declare in the Constitution that taking a bribe is an act of TREASON, punishable by death. Lobbyists will have to register and cannot meet in private with legislators, but can only testify in open public committee hearings. Any elected official who talks with a

9. lobbyist in private shall be removed from office. In stead of term limits I would set an age range. Only people between say the ages of 45 and 68 could run for the Senate. A 53% signed petition of registered voters in a district or state would impeach and remove a legislator

10. from office. I think there is a lot that can be done. We are either about to enter the last Days of the "great travail" in the Bible or we are at the beginning of the greatest golden age in history. I think the glass is half full. I think we

11. have the will to renew and revitalize the country.