Campaign finance rules act as mortar for the status quo, giving a kind of blocking power to special interests….Nearly nine out of ten Americans in 2013 said they wanted background checks for firearm purchases, but the Senate wasn’t able to assemble enough votes to get it done. On litigation reform, a senior Democratic congressman agreed with me that restoring reliability to justice would be useful in containing health care costs, but he said he would never support any reform, even one supported by patient groups, as long as trial lawyers opposed it. As he put it, “That’s where we get the money.”
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Citizen Enabled Government/Amendment XXVIX: Restoring the Public Servant
The Founding Fathers that wrote our Constitution could not foresee the modern society and the long term corrupting influence of a small number of private interests over the public domain.
Citizen Enabled Government/Amendment XXVIII: United States Civil Public Law Reform
Federal Government is awash in redundant, nonsensical statutes and regulations having no basis in common sense and negatively and unproductively affecting everyday life of every citizen of the United States.
Citizen Enabled Government/Amendment XXX: Eliminating Waste and Inefficiency in Government
Background: Waste and Inefficiency and Government have become synonymous terms in the public lexicon. The civil service system, where it is almost impossible to be fired, even for gross incompetence or negligence, has become a permanent retirement system unto itself.
