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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I have always wondered why somebody who works for such a benevolent entity such as government would even need a union in the first place.
We have term limits. They are called elections. Term limits throw the good out with the bad. Let people - even the idiots - vote for who they want.
Term limits are for when you don’t like how people in other places vote. Let the people from a district choose as their representative who they will. Banning candidates is a slippery slope. There are other ways to reform congress.
Senators and representatives are the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Non elected congressional staffs have undue influence without be held accountable. Then there are the bureaucrats who in many situations tell elected officials to pound salt. If it were me, I would order 50% pay cuts for the higher level non elected staff and bureaucrats and I would mandate that they would be immediately terminated if they sought the public spotlight.
Off year congressional elections average around 40% eligible voter turnout. The number of eligible voters who don’t care enough to vote dwarf the turnout for both political parties combined.
Freegards
While I like term limits in theory, doing so would only strengthen the bureaucratic arm of the Deep State.
The STAFF should be term limited. The people sitting in the background in any given hearing are the folks who educate the elected officials on how things work, and they are entrenched.
The problem with our elected officials is their main goal is to be re-elected and their secondary goal is to be re-elected, and their last goal is to be re-elected. The welfare of the nation is just a formality, something like a burr in one of their socks
One term. 2 years for reps. 6 yeas for sens. 4 years for pres. It will not eliminate corruption but will make it less profitable because officials have to be newly suborned each term and the source can’t lock in a committee head for decades. It is not worth nearly so much to buy off a rep for two years only and reps who have to return to private life will probably be a bit more reluctant to possibly soil their reputations by taking the money. If we could combine that with a repeal of the 17th Amendment we would have made a great stride toward regaining some semblance of the Republic.
Most, not all, solid conservatives get squishy with time and proffered money. Term limit representatives to one term and return senatorial choice to state legislatures. There is a better chance to have a larger number of less corrupted Conservatives in office in any given term with term limits than without.
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