Who understands the new laws? Staff, perhaps. In his memoir, Senator Ted Kennedy commented on “an enormous shift in responsibility over the last forty or fifty years” from elected members to professional staff, who, he observed, end up shouldering “over 95 percent” of the legislative responsibility.
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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.
