When politics triumphs over common sense, chaos reigns.

Accountability and transparency are absolute necessities for government activity, so the American public must be able to change government activity at any time during the election cycle. See proposed Accountability Amendment to our Constitution (3/19/2017 post). More so than ever before, the American people need an Accountability Amendment to our Constitution to control government and fix the current political insanity. Until such time that an amendment can be passed, every elected political office except President and Vice President of the United States should require the candidate to sign a legal accountability contract agreeing to a constituent recall election if deemed necessary.

During this federal government shutdown some 30 Democratic members of Congress recently enjoyed a retreat in Puerto Rico after arriving on a chartered jet along with more than 100 lobbyists. Is it possible that future campaign donations were mentioned during the flight? Do you think the lobbyists will be assisting the legislators with future legislation or possibly future legislation change or prevention? If you are a Democratic voter and voted for one of these members of Congress, are you going to hold them accountable for promises made during their campaigns? If not, why did you bother voting? Did someone pay you to vote a certain way? Please note that these accountability questions and the voting comment should apply to every single member of Congress.

Unfortunately, during this shutdown some 800,000 government workers are being furloughed or working without pay. To date, it has been reported that some 10,000 of them have filed for unemployment insurance—which they must repay—to pay their bills. What will happen if this shutdown lasts another month or two and the public sees that there are very few bad effects on government operations? Won’t this demonstrate that maybe we don’t need so many workers to run the government?

The fact is that walls help reduce illegal immigration wherever they have been installed. Will it become necessary to shoot and kill all adults illegally entering our country to defend our border and deliver the message that ALL IMMIGRATION MUST BE LEGAL? Since that action is unlikely, maybe the next best thing is to completely shut down the border with Mexico and stop all individual money transmittals from illegals in this country to those countries sending illegals to our borders. Shouldn’t the Congress stop playing politics and fix our bad immigration laws immediately?

Since almost every Presidential appointee that requires Senate approval has been grilled as if they had committed a crime, is it time for all elected members of Congress to undergo a comprehensive background check? Since the FBI which would usually do this cannot be trusted to be impartial, those investigations could be performed by local sheriffs and/or state law enforcement. This country must have fair and impartial Rule of Law. If we had an Accountability Amendment to our Constitution, the public would have the ability to start action to change legislation and personnel if change was desired.