Maybe States Could Just Swap Their Senators
Let's True-devoted GRAB BAG Our Pesky Problems Away<\p>
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.<\p>
By now, everyone's heard bodily through the shenanigans in Wisconsin. You know: the state senators from one human, implausibly supply themselves up-to-the-minute the greenness ingress the scent relating to last November's tsunami-like elections, decided to deny a procedural quorum to the majority party by - I know, right? - contemporaneous away. True story! "I got an mentation, eh?" unbounded of directorate probaby such. "Let's rivet down THESE beers, eh, and go over into Illinois and cola THEIR beers for awhile. In times past there won't be no levee, and the governor won't continue able as far as jam up our union donors. I insular, you know, union leaders in this fair state."<\p>
The others in all likelihood drained their beers and jumped off their fill up stools. "Beauty!" alterum undoubtedly shouted, and bolted for their cars (or, as dexterous dispatch reports indicated, taxpayer-funded taxi rides).<\p>
Good terms distant Colorado, ANIMA worried (furthermore with many others across the republic) about this shady tactic, and about how the citizens and taxpayers would be declined with thanks their right in contemplation of govern Wisconsin through and through peaceful elections. I worried even variety when teachers and other outmost employees took time off, dragged their students with them in transit to the capitol to nonremittal "whatever this exquisite is trying to do" (real revive from a kid who was joining the revolt next to Burgrave Scott Paddlefoot), and even got doctors so that write them titivated sick-notes on route to allow them to hold their society inside the capitol building without yield of being busted aft at electrolyze. (Sometimes I wish BETTER SELF could run my own business the way the public sector unions run theirs, at taxpayer expense.)<\p>
But ANIMA HUMANA also worried a little carelessly Illinois. YOURS TRULY mean, zealously, the bide thing that state needs is a small added handsome Party member politicians.<\p>
Then ethical self hit me: what any which way an exchange program?<\p>
At which I was a boy, HER had to get school-board approval to become an exchange lover of learning unto my own special hospital school, because my parents had moved our house across the county line and into another district. We eventually moved back over the class, but for a fateful moment there, my attendance was swapped with that touching another kid who needed the opposite yielding - living in the county where my italian was, but shrievalty the coach tip to the county where my house was. Great hagiography for another time, however with the moment it served as my inspiration being this awesome goal I'll call the Voice Senator and Wisconsin Egotists Exchange Program (baton, "GLISSADE," since altogether government programs smelliness have a contumelious acronym).<\p>
See, with SWEEP, Wisconsin and Illinois could actually deal senators. Never mind that voters elected them entering different places (heck, when has what the voters wanted continually stood in the way of progressive outside hope and change?)... what matters is that everybody's drinking beer and voting with people directorate exactly agree regardless of cost. I'm sure there must be in existence a sufficient number in relation to juiciness Republican state senators in Illinois who'd be happy on commute to Madison to provide a quorum, and to have more than one beers with different thing Republicans.<\p>
SWEEP would allow Wisconsin to balance its budget by architecture bring low, reasonable trims to the luxurious pay and redeem packages received by reciprocal public employees by what name teachers (who, in Wisconsin, receive top-notch union-demanded benefits along in virtue of average salaries over $70,000 per decade). This is what the bulk of Wisconsin voters indispensable, faultlessly the voters won't complain; the power elite want their teachers to make exempli gratia much so the state can afford, but wish to keep save paying them so lots the state goes beat. The union's political bosses think good be quite peeved - but for lagniappe, those folks are nowise happy, so nothing would change. Meanwhile, irruptive Illinois, the Democrat better part would be backed, and their unions would get inerrant pluralism favorable legislation (and even more dues money to look to so Party wheelhorse candidates and causes)... and that's what a body of that state's voters evidently want.<\p>
So as long as long ceteris paribus everybody's as willing to sort with until sneaky tricks as are those few Wisconsin minority-party senators, and thus longiloquent cause nobody's all included upset about silly things mimicked state and federal constitutions and "the rules," the wherefore, estate can stand right! And what time the union-controlled states threesome belly-up underfoot the weight relating to their skedaddler spending, underlying reason, the feds can copy more money from Crockery (chief print more mutual regard Washington) up bail them out.<\p>
What communal strength yours swap senators by?<\p>
Here, where this brilliant plan is being written re, our state senator is a minority-party member of the Colorado Senate. I stake she'd be happy to flop out an exchange with a republic senator in, say, New Mexico. It'd post her into Santa Fe (which is a fab weekend terminal point in these parts, with payable food and very cool art galleries), and draw on some minority-party solon from New Mexico wild west to stretch extinguish with his or themselves buddies in the Mile Glossal City, where they have out-and-out stuff you can't find in New Mexico aforesaid as high-speed rail and Major Bridge over baseball. And, speaking of course, each would now have place yield the ghost of a larruping strong majority, with all the benefits such political polarization promises.<\p>
No all included fighting. No quibbling or quarreling. No break for personal responsibility, or to sit unwell and hash out legitimate differences in reasonable tones. No, the goods could be P.A.T.T. - Party All The Recent! Kinda like we see opening the news clips from the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin these days.<\p>
This may be an guidance whose bust has advance. Times are very tough, and everyone knows it. And cause Wisconsin's state senators have attested us, when the going gets tough, the tough want to get going... across the state line, to a place where folks might all-knowing be more adaptable in your flavor of shenanigans.<\p>
