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[Thomas]

KC,

You hit on one of the things that bugs me about our government. I strongly believe that we would be in a much better place if we did not have a system that creates career politicians. If we had a system that demands service for a period of time from people who gain their financial support from their primary business lives or jobs. Kind of like the way many local governments work.

There's no doubt in my mind that career politicians is a problematic concept that creates all the special interest influence and all the bloated, out of touch responses to the nation's ills.

One for instance is a guy named Zack Womp, whose political career I have followed since 1994. He came in on the Republican wave and in interviews back then he expressed disdain for career politicians and he made comments about his desire never to become one. He is still in the House and he is now entrenched in obstructionist politics, not to mention moral crusading--the very stuff he claimed in 1994 to have been elected to remove from Washington.

Without restraints on politicians, they become tainted by the power that they hold, and it matters not which party they represent. In fact, I see no differences between Dems and Reps, except for the nonsense that they try to make me believe is a difference between them. They are power hungry individuals with absolutely no sense of the reality of the world outside their little power domains in office. Every thing that these liars say to us is in their interests not ours.

In my view, we need not a change in leadership but a change in political structure, and I don't see that happening any time soon.