John was heard muttering to Paul Nixon 
 about Government Reform 
 -> There's nothing about their compensation, either.  I propose we pay
 -> 'em a dollar a year.
 JP> The fundamental problem with your suggestion, (and mine, too) is that
 JP> millionaires like Ted Kennedy don't NEED the salary (or pension).
 Perhaps the fundamental problem is one step removed: the people who
 vote for millionaires like Ted Kennedy.
 I don't know that money necessarily is a good way to winnow out the
 incompetent, but why should some rich kid that's not ever done a lick
 of work tell me how to live my life?
 But I do think we need something better as a mechanism to help weed out
 the professional legislators.
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