Posted on 01/16/2019 11:59:55 AM PST by Eric Roelfsema
I have a proposal for federal employees.
With the exception of the President and the Vice President, since Congress has a minimum age limit, (25 for the US House, 35 for US Senate), why cannot we consider a proposal for a maximum age limit for Federal Employees.
If a federal employee, except for President and VP, obtains the age of 65 or 70, they must retire from the Federal job. If they wish to continue in their Federal job, they do not get their Federal salary. The must live off their pensions and whatever other money they may have.
The reason the President and VP are exempted is due to the fact that all eligible voters in the US gets a chance to choose who they want to become the President.
A Federal RIF is much faster.
The people who are not term limited but really should be are bureaucrats.
And Trump will never be elected president.
”… is if you first either pass amendments AND/Or have a congressionally approved plan to hand those functions back to the states."
Citizens need to learn that the states, not the constitutionally limited power feds, ultimately call the shots in the USA. This is evidenced by the Constitution’s Article V and the 10th Amendment.
In fact, there is nothing stopping the states from repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments, regardless what Congress wants.
"No judge, not even conservatives judges, are going to invalidate Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security on enumerated powers."
Citizens probably don’t care which government, federal or state, pays for such services.
In fact, hypothetically speaking, the states could start paying healthcare bills and Social Security overnight and citizens probably wouldn’t catch on until they looked at bank statements.
When more voters wake up to the unconstitutionally big federal government, then we’ll see changes.
Good luck with that.
I see a lot of hot air, but no plan.
I told you what has to happen.
Go get the states to roll it back, if you can.
I don’t think you can.
Without a comprehensive plan, you won’t get the states to do squat.
Therefore Enumerated powers arguments are a waste of breath and bandwidth. Even with a plan, you’re decades away. Completely irrelevant to the here and how.
Yeah, I would never defend that. That’s part of the reason we have such dolts for some government workers.
A better rule would be no federal hiring until you reach the age of 40 or have 20 years of experience in the PRIVATE SECTOR. We’d get a far better candidate pool who would be more inclined toward public service and less inclined to think the public is there to serve them.
The only person in the House of Reps that needs to be minimum age limit is the Speaker of the House. The Speaker must be 35, due to being 2nd to replace the President.
Why not have the minimum ages for both the Senate and House be 18?
BTW, I would propose term limits for US House and Senate at 12 years each.
My proposal is for the Federal Employees only, not the state and local employees. The state and localities would have to have their own laws for state employees.
Illinois has no term limits for its state house and senate members. Michigan is 3 terms in each body. Ohio is 3 terms in each body, but they can go back and forth after each term limit.
The only real problem is that the people have disregarded their responsibility to vote good and moral people into office.
Hence, Ben Franklin's challenge about giving the people a Republic - "if you can keep it."
It is up to us voting good people in.
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