Why everyone wants to vote for a new and inexperienced politician?

[Is It Just Me?]

When so much is on the line: economy, housing market, unemployment, healthcare,social security, pensions. Why does everyone think a new and inexperienced politician will go to washington and fix everything for us. The fact is that once they get to washington and get a breath of reality they might do us more harm then good. The promises sound so good but I think I want to vote for someone with experience in politics, how about you?

[Skyhawk]

Because EXACTLY 545 people out 330 million Americans are at fault for the state of the country.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red..

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it’s because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

[Mjǫlnir]

Because the "experienced" one was corrupt and taking this country in the wrong direction.

[strpenta]

I have mixed feelings. Experience is what you said, they know how to work the system to get their priorities through BUT that also means the likelihood they'll be corrupted is greater.

[Entropy]

100% disagree. What you don't see is that the process corrupts. When people first go to Washington they are interested in politics for the purpose of making the country better. They get there excited and ready to work and propose legislation to make the world better. They think creatively and often consider finding common ground with the other side.

The longer they are there however, the more the process beats them down. The money is a constant lure, but the constant in-fighting, the way they have to earn their way up the seniority ranks, the way good legislation is casually killed because some more senior senator puts an anonymous hold on it, and on and on and on. The longer they are there the less and less likely they are to give a damn, and the more likely they are to use the process to enrich and empower themselves.

That's why new blood is valuable. New blood is more likely to break ranks with their party when their party is wrong. New blood is idealist and says no to new pork projects. New blood cares about things like the democratic process and will be reluctant to use procedural tricks to kill good legislation.

Yes, experience has some value, but realize that NONE of these politicians write their own bills. They have technical writers and staff who do that for them. They are there to kiss babies and lie to you. Throw them out. We don't even have to throw them ALL out, just enough to scare the rest of them straight.

[finaldx]

That is a good observation. People have gotten an inkling of an idea about how much "tit for tat" backscratching goes on inside the beltway, that they wish to reject the entire lot of them and start anew. Pork, lobbying, fighting for their own constituency, call it what you like, but it is all the same idea.

The underlying problem lies in the greed of the politicians who have been there a while. You can't fault them too much, it is inherent in all of us, given the huge opportunities politicians who get elected face.

Our founding fathers I think, did not realize that this nation would face a time when the "better angels of our nature" could not imagine fighting that uphill battle for the lifetime it would take to make a difference. Therefore, the truly selfless and honest people who would otherwise consider going into politics are repelled from that idea and settle for making their own little corner of the world better.

Study the presidency of Jimmy Carter to find out what a truly ethical individual who finds themselves elected faces. To say he was ineffectual would be an understatement, because he wasn't willing to play the "political game".

Only when the people rise as a group and demand term limits would this nonsense begin to diminish. Then we would be left with relatively uneducated people in office, trying their best, in a rather sophomoric, ham-handed way, to run this noble country. Difficult to see this happening, in my lifetime, at least. I am not altogether convinced that the well-meaning but multiply-re-elected incumbents are always bad.

A conundrum, indeed.

[Angel R]

IF that's your case, it will depend which State you live in....

CA: Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer are the right candidates, with all the experience you can get and practical solutions and transparency. Former CEOs Whitman and Fiorina bring zero experience and sending jobs outside CA for cheap labor ideas. Whitman comes with the idea that she can be above the law and hired undocumented immigrants and then denied they ever knew them, a pattern shared by her son who raped a college girl and now refuses to talk to the press. Fiorina shipped over 30,000 jobs to China, her new constituency for more jobs.

CO: Bennet is your guy an incumber senator with the experience CO needs. Buck is simply a homophobic radical right-wing who equates homosexuality with alcoholism and other nonsense notions.

KY: Conway is an Attorney general with a breadth of experience dealing with the legal system; Rand Paul is just nuts who mocks religion and forces others to pray for Aqua Buddha.

DE: Vote Coons, avoid witches.

ALASKA: Vote McAdams, stay away from radicals like Joe Miller who wants to mirror East Germany policies and implement them in the US, first the wall and perhaps extortions next.

FL: Vote Crist, the current FL governor who is willing to cross party lines to get the best result possible. Rubio is a disgraced to the latino commuters, also known as the traitor for wanting to lengthen retiring age and extending wealthy's tax breaks. NUTS.

NV: Vote Reid, with his leadership, we can get so far.... Sharron Angle only scares me, she equates minorities with other races and could care less about their issues. She recently called high school latinos asians.