In a recent thread, we were discussing term limits for members of the Congress. Well, I think we're agreed that it's not going to happen. Suppose, however, legislators were to be paid the current level of salary, benefits, office allowances, etc. in effect on the day they take office and would be frozen there for their entire stay in the Capitol? It could be presented to the currently sitting congress that it would apply not to them, but to the subsequent new members. I think it would encourage those new members to move along after a term or two, and in a generation we'd have a congress of citizen-legislators and not careerists. Further, their travel, housing and multiple office rents and staff salaries would not come from the Feds, but rather be paid by the particular states legislatures. After all, Senators and Congressmen are answerable to we, the people, and not to each other in the halls of Congress. Could a grassroots campaign get this to the Washington crew? Maybe...if each of our senators and representatives could individually be made to believe that they wouldn't be affected, but their successors would, and that we are watching.

What do you think?