I suggest 60 day terms each year. Any longer and they just turn to mischief.
I suggest we not pay these people. I suggest they be required to keep more than one foot in the private sector, so they have to live under the same rules they draft for everyone else.
I suggest the funds they collect for one election be required to be spent on that election, or returned to sender.
No way should they be able to run for higher office, hold over funds from that campaign and then drown their opponent in a lesser election with redirected funds.
There needs to be a better way to recall them. They should serve at our pleasure and be subject to recall on a moment’s notice. Make the bar real low, to set up a mid-term recall effort. No longer would they be able to screw us in years one to four of their term, then be able to kiss up to us in the last two years before they stand for election again.
As for term limits, I’m actually all for it, but I believe the courts will say that if the people want the politician for longer than two terms, they should have the option.
We definitely need to both limit their mischief and make them more accountable.
When you have to spend 9 months of the year in your hometown supporting yourself, it’s not very much fun to have your neighbors yelling, “Hey, F U asshole!” across the street.
And when your business dries up, you begin to sit up and take notice.
“When you have to spend 9 months of the year in your hometown supporting yourself, it’s not very much fun to have your neighbors yelling, “Hey, F U asshole!” across the street “
LOL!! Now they just ignore us. Part of the contempt I maintain they have for us now.
” And when your business dries up, you begin to sit up and take notice. “
Life long Marxist George McGovern opened up a bed & breakfast over 10 years ago, and went bankrupt? The reason he gave was due to the amount of local state, and federal regulation, paperwork and taxes. Ah, sweet retribution ;-)
The presidential term limits came from a constitutional amendment and that is very unlikely to pass now for congress as with the phony Graham-nesty amendment.
But on the other hand congress sets it's own rules and decides who they will seat outside of the courts power. Each house could vote to set their rules for term limits, one idea is if they are elected a 3rd term they lose all leadership positions and those on committees such that a new-bee has more power than them. I am not saying they would do it but I am saying Republicans are not talking about real reforms. We can already see the limits of the Tea party movement.