Also, they should face some steep salary cuts for catastrophic failures like this.
Actually they've already done that to themselves, In s moment of spite, the House passed a law forbidding the Senate from receiving pay until they pass a budget. The problem is they aren't payed that much compared to what they are worth. The Healthcare is pretty good, but gutting that would include cutting it from their legions of under-paid aides, which even many of the most fiscally conservative find repulsive (THE MONKEYSPHERE LIVES).
People, many are self-financed, and no one supports congress increasing their wages, so it isn't exactly a major problem. they only get COL increases anyway, and cutting all of their funding wouldn't force anyone to change their living standards.
Personally, I hunger for "no confidence" public recall elections. Allow each state to recall its representatives whenever and however many times its residents believe necessary.
We have the technology today to canvas entire states quickly. There is no reason to deny something like this as being unfeasable.
LW: Politicians for profit? Surely you know that is ALREADY the status quo, right? Or did the rhetoric of one former senator Dodd not ring any bells? 
if not, you can always look into campaign donations, election finance reports, super PACs and pals.
Essentially, Been there, doing that right now. Is the reason we need no confidence.
Coming from the view of hating both parties, I see. Well, did you know, that even if you kicked out every single person in congress, many of the same people would be elected? Actually, you can't have no confidence as it stands in Europe, because legislators are elected individually to each district/state, you wouldn't actually accomplish much. People have much, much higher opinion polls of their
own legislator then congress, people don't like the other persons, which I think is a lesson lost. I mean god one may hate Congress, but that is because they aren't doing what you want them to, and you can't simply vote away who other people agreed to represent themselves. Oh, and the best argument against other systems right now is they wouldn't actually
fix the problem of extremists controlling the parties, since the extremists come from extremist districts.I do say the US would be better adapted to a no or single party system, because since you can elect individuals, you can elect someone of your own personal world-view, rather then a parties view meshed with a individuals world-view.
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