the stormy present

CONCEPT:
Each person who gets elected to Congress,
all the members of the House, and
all the members of the Senate,
the framework of their public service will be this:

each year they're in,
10 months of that year are spent working in Washington and going back to their home state, like what they presently do.

The other two months of their year are spent in an "exchange" with a working person somewhere in America, not in the legislator's home state.

For those two months the senator does the job of the working person and earns that person's amount of money.
The working person sits in for the senator in Washington, and makes his amount of money, for the two months.

Each legislator's two-month "tour" would be staggered so that all year around Congress would be made up of -- mostly elected legislators, but there would be some private citizens sitting in too.

(I have to get someone who is good at math to figure out how many legislators could be out "in exchange" for which time periods...I know something needs to be figured out, & I don't know how to do it.)

With the 10 months & two months, guess I didn't build in Vacation time.
(They can work it into the 10-month period. And -- what they do, as a legislator, is a vacation -- it is an honor and privilege to serve in Congress.

I contend:
1. It should also be an honor and a privilege to spend two months every year literally experiencing what many citizens in our country experience. It would be exponentially educational. People who think they are too fabulous to do that would spare us their megalomaniacal presence in our government and go to Hollywood or murdoch-media (really the same thing) instead.

and 2. They will have time to vacation in Bermuda after they are finished serving in Congress.
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Abraham Lincoln said this:
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

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