Red County used to be a real good blog in San Bernardino County until the San Bernardino County scandals derailed the blog. Red County was the place where we had the Obama Republican Women’s club scandal unravel where Keith Olberman led to have the club’s president as his worst person of the day.

With the federal government broke, it seems we should have a website where average citizens could come up with proposals to help cut costs. I recently thought of the idea of eliminating congressional pensions for individuals such as Gary Miller of Diamond Bar or John Kerry of Massachusetts. If a retired congressional member has a net worth of less than 2.5 million then they would be able to get a congressional pension, if its between 2.5 million and 4.99 million then they would get a partial pension. After 5 million net worth, they would be on their own. However if they bottom out they could get their congressional pension restored the next calendar year.

Ideas big and small let us post them so we can share them to our state legislators so we can make our state work.

1. State Senators should share district offices with state assembly members whenever possible to save taxpayers money. If they are both from the same political party and want to pool their resources we can benefit from expanded staffs working together for the people of their districts. We could save a half million dollars to a million dollars a year.

This thread will be ongoing.