The only problem with instigating any / all of your excellent changes in how we elect, tolerate, and honor through privileges our elected Congress people is that to effect any change we must rely on actions in accordance with "We the People" changes by the same miscreants we want to correct. Unfortunately none of our hoped for reforms will see the light of day much less enactment.  

Lou



On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM <olmsteaj@erols.com> wrote:
A couple suggestions to add to your excellent "a few New Rules for election of legislators" list:
- term limits of 4 terms for the House and 2 terms for the Senate
- the same social security and health care options we the people have
- government housing provided in the DC area to reduce one of the financial incentives for homesteading
- not providing lifetime full retirement salary until age 65 after serving honorably at least 6 years

V/R
John Olmstead



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From: ahaefner@aol.com <ahaefner@aol.com>
Sent: Friday, December 5, 2025 6:09 PM
To: brianjmiller1977@gmail.com; habrattland@arvig.net
Cc: helobubbas@helobubbas.com
Subject: [Helobubbas] Re: All this political chat from former RotorHeads

I think I have it all figured out!

For the last 25-40 years depending on your view point, our Legislative Branch of Government is suffering from a group personality I've decided to call "abdication by decidophobia."


In the last 20 years this "disease" has spread to senior leadership in many, if not  most, departments of our government. 

In the last 5 years the "We the People," mentioned in early American documents, sensed something was wrong and voted for change but our combined focus was on the wrong Branch Of Government.

We collectively split the vote of 2 poor choices without understanding that the original disease of lame legislative houses was continuing to decline and had created a fertile soil for a great statesmen or a tyrannical nut job to dig in like an invasive species. Where are the great Statesmen or Women of this country?

We never had a chance and won't get anywhere positive until Senators and Congressional Representatives bedridden with this dreaded disease of "abdication by decidophobia." are removed and replaced with "newer models".

So what did I figure out?  We need a few New Rules for election of legislators,   Mandatory retirement at age 70 and term limits of 4 terms for the House and 3 terms for the Senate.

Feel free to pile on with critique, offer smart ass remarks or even add in some New Rules like no NEW Stock Market involvement of any kind while in office.

Happy Holidays to all unrestricted aviators and their families, and may the New Year revert this email group back to issues where we are actually Professors Emerita.

W/r, AL


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