Quote - Elected office should be a public service, as originally intended.  There was no plan for a permanent political class who would remain in office for decades.  It should be a penurious experience, with term limits, and one should be forbidden from profiting from the job before, during or after.  This would eliminate the showboats (you all know who they are and they infest both parties) from spending their entire lives directing the general populous who are obviously too ignorant or lazy to get about their own business.

It would also return us to the early days of the republic, when only the wealthy could afford to run for public office. You would end up with politicians who either inhertied wealth, married into wealth, or had day jobs lucrative day jobs. There was a reason why the early congress was made up mostly of lawyers, prosperous merchants, and plantation owners.