Making prison more like prison would be a good deterrent as well. How about you get nothing but a Bible and 45 min per day outside your cell without an opportunity to gang bang?
Right. it's so sooo bad for them. That's why keep going back.
Read the book Aftershock. It will give you a better understanding of how things would implode. I would ignore everything it says about gold beyond that it will go up as other things go to "money heaven".
You don't need to go to those lengths at this point. If you're in T bills you should be safe for a quite a while, although you may not make much on your investment. I'm no finance fag btw, but Aftershock helped me gain an understanding of the big picture and the factors that contributed to the mess we're in now.
They should definitely have to live in their districts and should have to certify in writing every year of their term that they engaged in no illegal financial activity and that they have no conflicts of interest, either themselves or through third parties. Violators should face a min of 10 year prison sentence up to being hanged, depending on how much they fucked us.