The Capital Dome is Circular ... as Is Our Debt Problem

Here is a quote attributed (not authenticated) to Warren Buffet:

 "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

Aw, shucks, Warren!   Didn't you learn in high school civics class that any federal law must be passed by Congress?   And the #1 job of Congress is apparently to get reelected.  How many of those lawyers do you think would vote to kick themselves out?  See what I mean by circularity?

Now, I appreciate the thought, but let the Sage of Omaha (or maybe some high school student of civics cum logic ) pull out the U.S. Constitution and his civics text and tell us how to break this VICIOUS circle.  There are millions of us in the American Middle (Muddle?) cheering you on.

Start with 2 premises: 

   1) We can never add  more value as a nation while governed by a legislature full of lawyers, since law school or the practice of law does not prepare anyone to add value, but merely to fight over how to split  up value.

   2) Interest groups from right to left own Congress by supporting it's precious ability to be reelected.  (More circularity: guess who would have to pass a law to end that?!)

Who's up to the task?