Posted on 06/27/2017 9:06:09 AM PDT by rktman
They’re too busy grabbing self-aggrandizing sound bites and investigating each other.
It’s time to truly drain the swamp, and the only way to get rid of the crooks, the RINOs, the
radicals, the power brokers and also-rans is term limits.
Send them ALL home every six to eight years. It will break up the power cliques and decimate the old boy networks, put faces fresh off the street, with the opinions of real-time, practical experience in power, rather than that of those who view the nation from their ivory towers and make the trip to their constituency for vote gathering purposes only.
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absolutely...
AND all laws apply to all members of congress.
And any one in congress whose financial assets grow more than their annual salary get an automatic audit.
When they are elected, their assets should go in a blind trust so they cannot feather their nest.
Also, a lifetime ban on lobbying for elected officials.
They will go home after a couple of terms if there is no money in it.
Term limits bite both ways.
As a conservative what do I want? I want more conservatives.
Same for the liberals.
I do not want a strong conservative thrown out just because his time is up.
I’m sure the liberals feel the same.
You want term limits educates the voting public and let them decide. Educating the uninformed may be a task but Trump may be able to help in that category.
That’s what primary challenges are for. If someone is ineffective, then a primary should be the choice for change. Then it’s up to the general election to select from the weeded out candidates.
Now is NOT the time for term limits. Sorry, I want us in the majority for a long time to come.
We haven’t been able to convince people to vote their Congress people out. Term limits is the only thing that can save us now.
There are no strong conservatives.
I agree though that I don’t want someone I like thrown out just because his time is up, though I do want those I don’t like thrown out because their time is up.
And that is all of them.
I am basically at the point where I no longer wish to empower anyone to represent me, and I don’t want to give anyone power over me.
I fully trust two people in this world. Me and my dog. That’s it.
I am of the opinion that at a minimum, four constitutional amendments are required:
1) Term limits for Congress and Senate
2) Congress can not exempt itself from laws passed
3) Representative apportionment of taxes - last years spend is divided into a per Senator and per Representative cost and then sent to each state as a bill that has to be paid from the State tax revenue (before the state can spend the money on state programs or salaries). States that can not pay their bill, lose their vote(s) in Congress until paid in full. States get to decide how taxes will be collected.
4) Elections for federal office are limited to US Citizens, voting in the registered state and congressional district of record, voter rolls are maintained separate from state roles and rolls are purged 60 days after a new President is sworn in.
Ya' think? I'd fear just the opposite. Give swampthings less time to amass their fortunes, and they'll have to be even more corrupt to achieve their financial goals.
Not a fan of term limits but I would be in favor of an age limit, like mandatory retirement at 65. No one gets elected after 65th birthday.
The number of conservatives remain conservative over many terms in Congress is much smaller than the number of liberals grow more liberal or many times in Congress
I’d add Voter Rolls at every level are purged every two years and EVERYBODY must re-register.
2018 would be a good time to prove we don’t need term limits. The left is openly admitting who they are. Get rid of Ryan and Flake. The problem is that you end up with McCaskell and the Indiana Senator whose seats belong to us. Sharon Angle was an embarassment-not ready for prime time. We blew that one when a looker-Louden- was available. Those things count.
I have no problem with term limits per se but unless we want the government run by your average unmotivated, uninterested and unbeholding to anyone public servant, we had better limit the time anyone can work for the government. If the squatters know that their boss is on the clock, the ones that don’t like him will perform minimally while simply hunkering down and wait him out.
To that end the first thing that needs to be done is eliminate unions for taxpayer paid workers at all levels from the Feds down to the cities. When the government negotiates with a government union, there is no one advocating for the taxpayer at the bargaining table. Hence we get screwed ... again.
Had the Founding Fathers ever thought such an invention was possible, term limits would have been first on the list. It was unimaginable to them that "public service" would become a career.
So-really? And what on earth did people think that 8 years of “O” was going to do for us?
He turned the US into a larger version of every single decades-long, Liberal run urban center in the US.
It was inevitable.
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