[calcowgirl]

I live in California ...

I know. The question was not to you.

... and can say this: term limits no thanks to your "competent" legislators.

I didn't say our legislators were good or competent. I said that reducing their salaries will lead to new legislators being less competent and more corrupt.

How old are you, anyway?

Old enough to have voted for Gerald Ford. What does that have to do with anything?

[Mojave]

Old enough to have voted for Gerald Ford.

Not in the presidential primary, I hope. :)

[Publius6961]

Old enough to have voted for Gerald Ford. What does that have to do with anything?

Nothing earthshaking.
Just the dumb observation that "those who do not remember [or experienced] the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them."

[Publius6961]

I said that reducing their salaries will lead to new legislators being less competent and more corrupt.

I may be having a crisis of imagination, but I can't envision (in California, anyway) a more ignorant, arrogant, incompetent and corrupt bunch than the present legislature.