Washington Elite

The main problem with politics in the United States is the Washington Elite. By Washington elite, I am referring to our wonderful elected officials that "serve our interests" in Washington DC.

These elected officials have become the political elite of our nation. They no longer are looking after our interests, just their own. They seem to have forgot that they work for us and have to answer to us. The only problem is it seems the people have forgotten that as well. Very few people get involved with politics and the most given reason is because they feel their voice isn't important. These elites have got it made and why would they do anything to jeopardize that status? They have a fat salary that they receive for "serving the people" and get 100% of that salary upon "retirement" after serving only 6 years (that's only one term for a senator and 3 for a House Rep). In addition to the salary, they receive a housing stipend, a travel allowance, a staff allowance, access to private Congressional planes, health care and many other perks, like PAC's and lobbyists. These people live in an alternate reality than the rest of the country. They see things through the eyes of those who "donated" the most to their reelection and rarely take any action to benefit the mass of society who pay the bill for all those perks, including the PAC money, it's just indirectly.

We need to fix this problem, all the politicians need to be reminded that they work for us and not the PAC's. Send all the incumbents back home to stay in the next election. Write, call, fax or email your elected officials and tell how you feel, tell them how you want them to vote.

Democracy
noun, plural -cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

All of these politicians were wealthy before they got elected and would remain wealthy after public service. They are making a second career out of public service which isn't even serving the public. Most recently, they have been taking over the private sector and passing legislature to control our lives and limit our freedoms.

My thoughts are that we need to impose term limits on all of them, limit them. There is no reason that we should have a single person serving in Congress for 30+ years. Do they even know what their home state looks like. Term limits are only the beginning, I think they should receive zero pay while they serve us, give them a small annual stipend to hire staff, housing and BUSINESS travel. To many times are the families with the politician on these so called business trips. Take a look at some of the locations these elitists go on with their family that us citizens pay for, it's a shame. These two measures should be enough to start the public outcry about how OUR elected officials are treating us.

We can't afford to be quiet and sit idly by while our country sinks further and further into socialism and away from what made our country the best in the world.