Rangle deserved everything he got. He was a war hero who lost his way because nobody can withstand the pressure of money and power for ever. That is why the founding fathers decided that we would loss or liberty and the representative form of government if we allowed the legislators to access the treasury and become professional politicians. Rangle was professional politician and his only interest was to maintain his power and gather more money. He even thought he was above it all with all the power he had. Not so but he should have been out of there for years. This would not have had to happen. He did not represent his constituancy he represneeted his own interest. This is not where it started but his is what happens when a person is exposed to greed, power, money for to long.

Term LImits

It is election time and it is time to elect those who will vote for and or self regulate a term limit. Hamilton and Jefferson were very clear on their opions on a professional class of polititians. Do not pay them well. Make sure the have to return to their communitites on a regular basis. Do not let them get there hands on the countrys treasury. They not take long to understand that if they have the power to devy out the treasury that will give them power manipulate the treasurey to their own interest. Hamilton and Jefferson both spoke of the nature of man. That if you give him that much access to money and power he will become corrupt even if he or she does not want to. We have forgot that the nature of man altimately rules our lives. We need to not just blindly believe. We need to vote with the understanding that even if you can not see it, as with Clinton and others, the long term politicians is corupt by his nature. Especially those who have been in the congress for a period of time. Remember if you vote for anything other than term limited canidates you are voting to keep thins as they are and you are telling the corupt politicians that is all he she has to do is to keep lying to you and you will believe.

Federalist Papers

I have been reading the Fed Pap lately and I am amazed at the timeliness of the writings of over 200 years ago. I am amazed at the comparisons that can be made between the king and our current congress. The loss of power to the people etc. Jefferson and Hamilton both agree that the qualities we want in our elected people are as follows: 1. No person should be paid a salary to govern; this is what happened in feudal England. 2. No person should be elected and be ab le to stay in congress and become a professional politician. This leads to only represent themselves not the person elected them and leads to decision making that enables their reelection not the best decision for the country. 3. No person should be elected who has done nothing. Not run a business, raised a family, run a farm etc. 4. All should have a since of value and a commitment to America not a narrow focus. Term limits should be imposed if the congress will not limit themselves.

Here we are today with professional politicians who only want to maintain their power base. They have no interest in the country as a whole only in making money and maintaining power that they can then use to keep them in office. Jefferson points out that we are unable to fix politiacal problems when government gets to complicated. That the Dukes and Counts have the ability to continue to hide in the wings outside of the view of the public. Therefore government is dume to failure as a republic if the operation of the gov gets to complicated. IE the irs, Dept of education, pentagon, etc.

Lets vote all out and look at term limits as means to protecting the republic.