Awesomelyglorious wrote:
"Legislate a requirement that, in any war, the military aged children and grandchildren of the president, the vice president, all cabinet officials, and all Congress members serve on the front lines in the most dangerous combat positions -- no exceptions, no exemptions."
Don't worry. Such an idea would never pass.
I would support ending the ability of a President to deploy troops for more than 30 days for any military action. If we need to keep troops over there and deal with fighting, we should have a declaration of war from Congress. No declaration, then the troops come out after 30 days...non renewable.
I would also suggest that any "declaration of war" invoke a termination clause which means every person voting for it (as well as the President) must step down at the next election and be "out" for one term before resuming pubic office. If they believe enough in the cause for war, they should be willing to relinquish their office as a show of resolve. Right now, it costs congressmen and the President nothing to commit a nation to military action.
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
This seems to seek to destroy a powerful force of a minority to use against a majority in a situation. I dunno, I don't think that the filibuster is overused.
Agreed. The filibuster is a tool intended to force compromise rather than have a pure "tyranny of the majority." It's bad enough that if the majority is large enough, they can vote to break a filibuster anyhow.
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
The issue I see is that we either are going to institutionalize the major parties, or we are going to devote too much in terms of resources to no-name candidates. Either way, we run into a significant problem.
We should do as other nations do. All parties get equal exposure. NO CAMPAIGNING outside of 90 days before election day. This BS of campaigns running for up to 2 years is just insane.
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
What would this really do that is beneficial? Mostly the rights of corporations are things that help corporations exist as a legal entity. It is hard to argue that corporations are a useless legal entity either.
Corporations were impossible under the government the Founding Fathers created. Anything without a "soul" was to have no legal rights. A sole proprietor or a partnership has "souls" who can be held personally accountable for the actions of their company. Corporations are almost totally bulletproof in this respect. They have all the legal rights and standing of a real person, but not the accountability. They even get lighter punishments when caught doing wrong because anything that could result in the "death" of the corporation is deemed excessive, but if there was a sole proprietor or partnership involved, the court would deem that as the owner's life was being spared, no amount of monetary punishment would be too harsh.
Corporations are the cause of much of the evil in this world because they can act with impunity on a grand scale.