To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Recall Election if Congress Fails to Pass Budget
This petition proposes greater accountability for Congress inability to successfully to pass a budget, by requiring a recall election for all members of Congress to take place 3 weeks from the failed budget deadline. Currently, there are inadequate consequences for Congress failure to fulfill its responsibilities; this petition makes members of Congress have a greater stake in acting effectively for the well-being of our country.
Why is this important?
The spiraling adversarial bipartisanship for personal and political party gains has made Congress increasingly dysfunctional at great cost to our country's economy and social growth. The welfare of the country and its citizens has been thrust into tertiary priority by the self-interests of politicians, large corporations and wealthy special interest groups. Currently, there are insufficient disincentives or penalties for the politicians, who paradoxically have personal incentives to shut down the government, with the cost being born by the citizens. To decrease this largely unchecked corrupted system, this petition seeks to make members of Congress much more accountable to their constituents in a concrete, specific and direct way. A mandatory recall election would create a proportionate and powerful disincentive for each and every member of a Congress that fails to pass a budget leading to a government shut down or default.