All the candidates for President talk about change.  The trouble is, no matter who wins, there are still 500+ obstacles to any substantial change sitting in Congress, and all the current candidates are currently members of that obstacle course.

What we need is a way to make Congress represent “We the People” as opposed to CorporationsRUS.  We can no longer afford a government that mortgages our future and our children’s future in order to collect this quarter’s campaign contributions.

The phrase “legislative accountability” came to me several years ago. I was quite frustrated with the members of Congress who way too late said of the Patriot Act that they did not realize everything that was in it when they voted.

If corporate officers need to sign and take responsibility for their company’s financial statements, shouldn’t our legislators be held to at least that much responsibility?

Of course, the excuse was that no one could be expected to read and understand all of the clauses in a bill that runs to hundreds of pages. So let’s remove that excuse as well.

I came up with the Legislative Accountability Amendment.

This year, with all the presidential candidates talking about change, I decided it was time to make my idea more public – to see if anyone was interested in real change. Thus begins this blog, in the hopes of building a community that can push for something more than campaign promises out of our next President.

Let’s put “We the People”, and our Constitution, back in charge of our country.

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