On a slightly different point, what you mention about the staffer giving his viewpoint priority points to the major problem with term limits. The elected positions of congress are pretty much overwhelming in terms of needing to know everything about everything coming before the legislature, so they have to rely on staffers until they are well versed in a given subject. The longer a person stays, in theory they will actually get to know an increasing number of areas reasonably well. A mandatory turnover of elected officials elevates the non-elected staff to being the only ones who are the experts on nearly every issue, so they end up being responsible for even more legislation than they are responsible for now [don't they write just about all of it?], and with fewer checks to their power. I don't think term limits are a bad idea, even with that. I also think most professors need to spend at least one of every five years in the real world doing the thing they teach. I have many such fantasies.
Another fantasy [?] is that someone out there has a replacement passenger seat control switch to replace the one I destroyed a couple of weeks ago. The dual position switch with headrest adjustment was the one we had so my son wired it in to control the non-memory seat on my '81 300SD. With that much custom wiring having been done I think it would be best to replace it with the same one we rigged to work before. Kaleb? Anybody? I have a baggie full of small springs and pivots and such - all I could find of the exploding switch I had in there. BillR -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Mitch Haley Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:28 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Public Service Announcement Allan Streib wrote: > OK Don <okd...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I don't think my representatives can read -- but Will Rogers said we should >> write to them anyway. (Don't remember the exact quote). > > They don't read the leglislation they vote on, why would you think they > read letters from their constituents? They've got staffers to look at the letters, pick out a few key words, and tabulate the results. "Boss, our mail on CCW reciprocity is running 7 for to 3 against". "Thanks. Read any good ones?" (staffer hands elected critter the best 3 letters that support the staffer's point of view) Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
