Career Politicians?

"(T)he Ruling Class is largely professional---in the sense that ruling is itself its business...The Country Class can hope to cut that knot only by mobilizing itself against it on a principled, moral basis---understanding that the system of priveleges is dishonest, and being willing to dispense with whatever threads of it they hold...(T)he revolutionary choice for the Country Class has to be: are you willing to upset the apple cart from which you get your ration of apples?" (The Ruling Class, How They Corrupted America And What We Can Do About It, Angelo Codevilla; Beaufort Books, 2010; pp 68-70.)
Angelo Codevilla touches on several points in section of his book.
The first is that the Ruling Class is a professional class.  We have career politicians and they just revolve between the government and the higher echelons of business.  This is not good.  This is not healthy for our country.  The government needs to be made so small that it wouldn't pay for anyone to be a professional politician, a career politician.  Elected officials should not have health care benefits, retirement benefits or other such benefits.
"But if we won't do that, then we will not get the best for elected positions."  Really?  Is that why George Washington served his country?  Is that why the delegates to the Constitutional Convention served their country?
AND how well has it worked with the class of career politicians we have developed?  What have we ended up with?  Politicians who exempt themselves from laws they write, who exempt themselves from paying their taxes, who cheat on their tax claims, who treat the rest of us, the Country Class, as if we were a bunch of uneducated bumpkins who need the wisdom of the Ruling Class to guide us through life. Worked well, hasn't it?
Second, how do we untie this Gordian knot?  We do NOT untie it by creating another class or career politicians.  We as unelected citizens of this country stand toe to toe with the career politicians and confront them with the principles that come from our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  And if they don't seem to understand, if these principles are too difficult for them to understand, we use the ballot box to get rid of them.
Third, we realize that when we upset the apple cart, we run the risk, indeed, we most likely stop getting our ration of apples from that apple cart.  That is not pleasant, but that is necessary in order to TRANSFORM our country back to the republic it was created to be.  It will be hard work if we "can keep it."(Benjamin Franklin)  But it is well worth it.  Restoring this country back to small federal government, back to a republic of states, is well worth it because that structure is what has brought us this far and given us this rich and exciting life that we have experienced so far and can experience if we are willing to put the work into it. And if we are willing to work at this, we will enjoy apples like we have never enjoyed before.