If it grants you a free ride through life on the heavy labor of the taxpayers, why change?  If it allows you to pillage a nation after staging a bloody coup with no consequences, then what forces are discouraging this behavior from continuing? We must deal with these criminals like children. They only understand a paddling, they don't understand "time out" and "count to three." There need to be severe consequences to set an example for all the other politicians guilty of high crimes, treason, bribery, and extortion.