We seem to elect these people for life, once in they do as THEY please and don't seem to care what their constituents want. We keep re-electing them.
I am going to answer that quote with the same answer I gave in Solo's post
We need two things that will change what is happening to our country, and we will never see either.
1) TERM LIMITS
We will not see them because the politicians are so intertwined with the lobbyists that they are one entity. (and that goes for both parties) Term limits would enable our elected positions to be what they were intended to be, real people serving the voters, not their party, or special interest groups, and they would not be in office long enough to be bought. (at least in a perfect world)
2) FAIR or FLAT TAX
When everyone, including corporations are paying equally, we should begin to level the playing field, but it will never happen in our lifetimes, if ever, because we have voted in our ruling class, and enabled the filthy rich to dictate and determine what the laws will be, and who will be effected.
Jim