And there are more Tea Party radicals in the wings to take their place. That solution is simplistic and doesn't take into effect the funding.
Most people with the freedom to run for office are independently wealthy to begin with, and won't be affected by not being paid or getting pensions or healthcare.
Or else they are the bought out Koch family stooges who don't care about the government, in fact they want it privatized. They are there to steal everything that exists from us, money, freedom and resources.
They are put in office to serve their corporatist donors, and will simply go to work for them directly after directing millions into their coffers while in office - like Cantor and Ryan.
Clean the place out? Who's funding the Koch brothers take over of the USA right now?
Think that money and media that brainwashes the public to put these rubes in office will go away by cutting the pay or terms of representatives?
I do not support this simple solution. It's been tried before and didn't work except to express outrage. Now that outrage is mostly in the hands of the Teabaggers. That change was not good.
If a representative is doing a good job like the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are, I don't want them booted and replaced by Kochroaches. There are many good people there who should stay in Congress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Caucus
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/
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