Exactly!
Agreed!
Much like goal setting in education we use SMART goals.
What Does SMART Stand For?
SMART is a strategic mnemonic for setting personal goals as well as professional ones, with each letter representing a different way of assessing achievements. Here is what SMART stands for.
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Specific: Your goal should be clear and specific enough for you to devise a plan to achieve it.
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Measurable: Your goal should be measurable, meaning that it should have specific numbers or results associated with it. These metrics help you demonstrate tangible progress on your way to achieving your goal.
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Attainable: Sometimes referred to as achievable or actionable, making your goal attainable means that it is possible for you to achieve it. This part of the acronym also addresses extenuating circumstances that may interfere with you reaching your goal. Is it the right time for you to put your plan into action, given your current financial and life constraints?
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Relevant: Relevant goals are those that pertain to your field of study or personal interests. Make sure your goals relate to your values and/ or personal development. If your overall goals are job-related, make sure your specific goals relate to your professional career or personal development.
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Time-bound: Time-bound means that you want to complete your goal within a given time frame. This can create a sense of urgency to help motivate you into reaching your goal. Time management is an important part of setting goals and achieving them, and SMART goals can help determine how much time you may need to accomplish them.
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End Pork-barrel projects added to bills that are not highlighted and not easily found
Absolutely needs to be the standard. Way too often these people are using our money for completely unrelated things they want out of a bill. They will also use it as propaganda. For example, Democrats can make a “save puppies” bill, but it sends millions to foreign countries. Then they’ll say “Republicans hate puppies, they voted against this.” One issue/topic per bill.
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This is the most important one! We the people are tired of things being shoved in there bills that we know nothing about!
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Gone would be the days of “X party is against petting puppies!!!” when the rest of the bill involved burning down the town.
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Bring all the shady deals and their cheerleaders into the light. Hidden deals are breaking our country. Congress works for the people.
This could be the most important policy change for America. This and term-limits for Congress,
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Yes! And while we are at it, let’s outlaw this lobbying nonsense. It’s just a sneaky form of corruption.
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Get rid of lobbyists and have an annual vote by the people on the priority of current issues.
Essential! Avoids the calling a bill something that “sounds” good but has nothing to do with what is in the bill!
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It should also be brought back to the people to vote on, where we have a say. And our elected official is to vote the way we want.
Yes I Agree!!! We need to stop the filibustering and politic nonsense shoved into every bill. 1 subject at a time and make the vote and move on. Pointless for a border bill to include stuff about transgenders.
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yes!
No question it needs to be done.
SNEAKING other issues under the table in 800 page proposals is just plain crazy!
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This is a must! Both sides continually use bills to push things that have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the bill. Then, when one side throws it out, they say they don’t support the main purpose of the bill, when in reality it’s because of all of the added pieces that have no connection with the main purpose of the bill.
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This will allow us to hold our elected officials accountable for their votes. As it is now, they make excuses that they “had” to vote for the bill even when it includes “extra” stuff, like bathroom bills, in order to get what they want. Omnibus bills have given our elected officials a way to mitigate the negative impacts of their votes.
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Definitely agree! In fact, I particularly agree about it having to be in common English. This is something that appears to be common to require on a state level (i.e. an explanation of the bill has to be written plainly on the ballot), so why is it not required of our federal politicians?
Things I would add is that, like I saw some state, there needs to be a limit of how long a bill can be. There is already a problem where bills are currently made to be so long that it is impossible for them to be read in their entirety before they are voted on in order to sneak things in. This will only continue even if single issue is required but a limit on length is not.
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I had same idea but on an app for the people to have a say on what’s being approved
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