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Not sure if anyone's said it, but it should be one six-year term for ALL... The President, Congress and the Senate....
Of course there's an up side and a downside to it....
The upside is that we don't have to worry about our elected officials beginning to campaign for the next election as soon as they take office.
Downside is that it would remove a lot of accountability... IOW why would a politician worry about going back on promises if they aren't going to be able to be re-elected anyway?
Not sure if anyone's said it, but it should be one six-year term for ALL... The President, Congress and the Senate....
Of course there's an up side and a downside to it....
The upside is that we don't have to worry about our elected officials beginning to campaign for the next election as soon as they take office.
Downside is that it would remove a lot of accountability... IOW why would a politician worry about going back on promises if they aren't going to be able to be re-elected anyway?
I didn't realize they worry about going back on promises either way. At least, I haven't seen that to be the case.
I agree with what you've written here and earlier. But you have to ask yourself the question: why do we need so many interest groups and paid lobbyists to begin with? It's because whenever Congress is in session our liberties are in jeopardy. Congress has arrogated to itself the power to tax and regulate people and businesses to death. Lobbyists are paid to try to thwart that power as best they can. You mention guns. What business has Congress regulating the ownership of guns? What business has Congress doing most of what it does? Do you realize that we have come to the point that citizens fear their government? We are no longer the masters of our government but its subjects. Congress, or the President for that matter, no longer govern. They rule. If the role of government in our lives were drastically restricted there would be no need for lobbyists. Lobbyists go where the money and the power are. And that's certainly not with the people.
Whatever Congress or the resident Chief Executive does is legal within the powers enumerated to them within Constitution. If it isn't, someone will take a case to the Supreme Court and they'll rule the law invalid. That's how the system was designed. It's called checks and balances and it still works.
To cure what you see as ills would require a new Constitution and I doubt you'll find much support for that.
On the other hand, so few people know what's in the Constitution or how our government works, that a good, smooth demogogue could come along and lead far too many people down the primrose path to a "better" America.
I voted for term limits here, we have it and it hasn't helped. Municipal, teacher and prison guard Unions have a strangle hold on the state. And sadly beginning with Reagan's amnesty the formerly illegal immigrants and their offspring are all voting now and for Socialists of both parties. I'm moving out and taking my business with me.[/QUOTE
We've had the same experience here in Maine. When someone is term-limited in the State House of Representatives he or she runs for the State Senate and vice versa. So its always the same cast of characters playing musical chairs. So in addition to term limits there would need to be a provision that a person could not run for either House or Senate for a set period of time after having been term-limited out.
No one was a bigger Reagan fan than me, but if he made any mistakes and of course he did, the amnesty for illegals was the big one. I was just telling that to my son yesterday. He wasn't aware of this..I am sure, at the time, Reagan thought is was a very good idea..well, we see now how bad it really was.
People who are so anxious to see things like health care voted in and other things, need to think about what will be the outcome in say, 20 years? So many things seem fine on the surface, but in reality are disasters.
Not sure if anyone's said it, but it should be one six-year term for ALL... The President, Congress and the Senate....
Of course there's an up side and a downside to it....
The upside is that we don't have to worry about our elected officials beginning to campaign for the next election as soon as they take office.
Downside is that it would remove a lot of accountability... IOW why would a politician worry about going back on promises if they aren't going to be able to be re-elected anyway?
Oklahoma enacted term limits for it's state government and guess what? When members of the Legislature are up against their limits and cannot be re-elected, their votes on important issues literally go up for sale to the highest bidder. Since they'll never again have to answer to the voters, not surprisingly, a good many of them rake in all the cash they can.
Term limits may only be enacted at the state level. Since we have no true, national elections, but a joint series of state elections, it is the states themselves which may set limits to the number of terms and some have. For Congress to do it would require a Constitutional amendment giving them the authority to do so.
I guess if you like the idea of having a bunch of amateurs running Congress, then term limits are a good idea.
If people are unhappy with their representative, they can vote their representative out of office. We don't need term limits; they're anti-government and only serve to reinforce the idea that government is bad.
I guess if you like the idea of having a bunch of amateurs running Congress, then term limits are a good idea.
If people are unhappy with their representative, they can vote their representative out of office. We don't need term limits; they're anti-government and only serve to reinforce the idea that government is bad.
you don't think we have a bunch of amateurs running things now?
our entire system needed a bailout!
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At least, I haven't seen that to be the case.
