Party before country...

now Pocketbook before country...

Does this surprise anyone?

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1. Put all House and Senate members on the same social security system as the rest of us.
2. Put all House and Senate members out in the same health care market we all live in (this from a self employed person).
3. Put in a line item veto
4. Put in term limits...moving us back toward a common man (read "common sense") approach to government...

...and I think we'd have a new day.

It need not be complicated. Get involved...have some constructive ideas and work to get them implemented.

First roll back the country to pre 1937, where courts actually cared about limits on the federal government. Second, have an incredibly simplified tax system.

this is America. We are a free people. Anyone can lobby their elected representatives, or contribute money to their re-election campaigns.

It's more complicated than that. The fundamental problem is that Congress allocates hundreds of billions of dollars in a giant omnibus bill that's essentially immune to presidential vote. The incentive system rewards sending massive amounts of pork to each District. It also rewards those who are well organized and give large sums to the parties.

The fact that people don't vote out their own congressman for bringing home their share of the pork is hardly surprising.

Further, it's beside the point. Getting elected doesn't render people immune from criticism during their term of office.

You don't like that there is so much corruption? Then the people that put them there can vote them out. The fact that they don't, oh well. We get the government we deserve.

So assuming the conventional wisdom is true, it's not simply that he's going into lobbying, it's that he's being rather dishonest about it - possibly criminally so if he's working on legislation that impacts the people he (presumably) already knows he's going to work for.