Proposed New Year resolutions

I propose our political leaders establish the following New Year resolutions:

1.  Return government to constitutional limits.  Halt foreign aid to those countries that hate us.  Money was never a motivator as we can see.  Take the checkbook away from the smartest woman in the world, and from big sis.  Close the Department of Homeland Insecurity, the Department of UnEducation (and misinformation), the Department of anti-Transportation.  Beef up the Department of Defense.  Pay soldiers a living wage instead of relegating military families to Food Stamps.  As it is, soldiers barely make minimum wage.  And for this they get the privilege of being canon fodder for our enemies.  Return to the gold standard.  Third world money is NOT for us.  I'm pretty fed up with trying to pay my bills with monopoly money.

2.  Turn over government transportation to private industry.  Means the President, Vice-President and all the advisers, pundits, and congressional politicians, staff members, etc will fly commercial.  Make them all suffer through the same crap they put normal folks through.

3.  Provide that government officials, and staffs earn retirement the same way as the rest of us.  Through Social Security and not through special retirement funds.  Require that they vest the same way as the rest of the country.

4.  Cut congressional pay to the average income of their constituents.  So a representative of Oklahoma will make what the average employee living in Oklahoma makes.  A representative of New York makes what the average New Yorker makes, etc.  That way they'll understand better who they represent.

5.  Make legislators and the President actually read or hear each word of a bill before a vote can be taken or a bill signed into law.

Betcha these resolutions would improve our country.