Congressional Staph Infection

[Keith Broaders]

Congress Has a Staph Infection

In 1910 there were 435 elected members of the House of Representative and 870 un-elected staff members. Today we still have 435 elected Representatives and  9,570 staff members.

In the average district there are of over 700,000 people being represented by 1 elected representative and 22 un-elected bureaucrats.

That comes out to a ratio of 1 staff member for every 30,434 constituents.

If we converted each Congressional Districts into 23 smaller districts of 30,000 we would still have the same number of representatives and and staff member that we have today, Instead of havign 435 representatives and 9,570 unelected and unaccountable staff member we would have approximately 1,100 Congressional Representatives..

Our Congressmen and women are nothing but glorified hood ornaments. The bulk of the business is handled by their army of unaccountable bureaucrats. I guess you could say we are experiencing a staph infection.

[Keith Broaders]

Large Congressional Districts lead to more regulations, higher taxes and less freedom. 

When political power is concentrated in the hands of the few the many suffer.

In a just society people are not regulated by government the people govern themselves.

[Daniel Wallace Carson]

Reform to Constitutional mean?..