The problem is the Republicans are not in charge of the federal government. For the most part bureaucrats run the federal government. And if they can just get Term Limits enacted for every elected office, they will have very little fear elected officals could actually take charge.
If they can just get term limits enacted, by the time any elected representative can figure out how the bureaucrats work, they will be required to leave office.
It works like this. Washington bureaucrats send field workers to take our rights. If they get complaints they blame it on the local agents and promise to investiagate.
They stall until the complainer goes away. They do the same thing to elected officials. They stall the "investigations" of agents misdoings for years. By the time the elected official figures out he is being conned he is out of office.
That is the deal with presidents and members of congress.
Of course many on the right play right into the bureaucrats hands by demanding term limits.
Under the guise of preventing presidents from appointing party hacks to govenment jobs, we have vested control of our lives in unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. The funny thing is party hacks did a pretty good job of responding to peoples needs. Every party hack knew that if his party was out of office, they were out of a job. They were very reluctant to do something that would tick off voters. Ticked off voters could and did cause them ot lose their jobs.
Today the government workers are almost impossible to even repremand. They do as they please and voters can do nothing about it.
IF the day a Republican took office, he could fire all the Democratic bureaucrats and the day a Democrat took offic he could fire all the Republicans, bureaucrats would be busting their butts to keep their party in office.
IF we still had the spoils system of government workers BATFE workers would not dare hassle law abiding citizens. They would be fired with in minutes of a few citizens calling their local party headquarters.
In our current system, all elected officials can do is beg the BTAFE to be good. The BTAFE people just do their con act and essentially ignore elected officials.
Just for the record, it was a Republican president, Teddy Rooservelt, who ended the spoils system in our national government. Public workers unions, ended it on the state and local level.
Until we change back to a system where bureaucrats can be fired for any reason by elected officials, we are going to be little more than serfs of the bureaucrats.
Very astute analysis. Fed bureaucrats and Congressional staffers run this country, not our elected officials.
BS! Congress cuts funds, jackbooted thug's stand in unemployment line. It really is that simple. Blackbird.
Sorry CT, you are 180 degrees wrong. The United States will not survive another two decades without Term Limits. Republicans are in charge of the government; the problem is that too many Republicans have become part of the problem.
Both the current system and the spoils system are wrong. By turning over enough elected officials, we can eliminate a very large number of government's bureaucratic jobs all together. Beginning some time after Labor Day, a series of articles are going to be posted to FreeRepublic that will detail exactly how We the people can take our country back by restoring the Constitution. No time for debate or explanation now. You will recognize the series when you see it. Stay tuned. Good things are coming to FreeRepublic and FreeRepublic can play an instrumental role in ensuring that good things are coming to America.
What you said is true. One of the biggest dangers threatening our freedoms are the Federal and State employee unions. Talk about a conflict of interest?