-=> On 02-20-98  11:44, Mike Angwin did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Robert Craft concerning Re: Balanced Budget??? <=-
 RC> Better yet, how about passing legislation nullifying all
 RC> laws in 2005 or 20 years from date of passage, whichever is
 RC> later?
 
 RC> Then the Congress could then spend all it's time reviewing
 RC> all Federal statutes and revising those to be retained IAW
 RC> two points:
 RC> 1) any law without citation of the Section and paragraph of
 RC> the Constitution authorising the statute is void and
 RC> 2) any law whose complexity exceeds high school reading
 RC> level is void . 
 
 RC> I think that would be constructive work for the Congress
 RC> for a number of terms.  
 
 MA> A friend of mine once offered an interesting suggestion
 MA> along this avenue. He suggested a constitutional amendment
 MA> be passed requiring that the seat of govrnment,
I don't think that capital expense is justifiable on any
sort of cost-benefit analysis.
 MA> it's laws,
Certainly, all entitlement programs should be thoroughly
reformulated. Had such been done to Social Security, we'd
not be facing the problems we now have. 
 MA> it's records,
Come now, abandon all records? Institutional amnesia serves
only to grant the institution absolution to make the same
mistake over and over. Sheesh! 
 MA> it's employees,
Already happens at 20-30 years with normal retirement for
civil service. As for elected officials... that's up to the
electorate.
 MA> and it's facilities be abandoned every 20 years.
Unjustifiable capital expense by any cost-benefit analysis.
 MA> His idea was to have an election at the end of twenty
 MA> years, create a new seat of government, and have only one
 MA> individual from the old government transport a copy of the
 MA> Consitution to the new government. Upon transfer, all
 MA> government records from the old government would be sealed
 MA> for 50 years, the facilities auctioned off, the former
 MA> employees required to find civilian employment, and any
 MA> elected official of any former government prohibited from
 MA> participating in any future government. 
 MA> Sort of a scheduled form of orderly revolution.  :)  
No, it's a semi-orderly anarchy resulting from
institutional amnesia and unnecessary capital expense.
... Retreat, hell!  We're just fighting in another direction.
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