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To: Shane
Good luck being ruled by bureaucrats that you cannot vote for, then.

Yeah, that's gonna work every time.

So, you also believe that you are so much smarter than the founding fathers - just like Obama.

21 posted on 03/19/2012 6:51:51 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Typed using <FONT STYLE=SARCASM> unless otherwise noted)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
“Good luck being ruled by bureaucrats that you cannot vote for, then.

Yeah, that's gonna work every time.

So, you also believe that you are so much smarter than the founding fathers - just like Obama.”

My god are you ill informed. Term limits (just as we have for the presidential office), means that Congressman and Senators are LIMITED to the number of terms that they can serve. They are VOTED into office just as they are now, however they would be prevented from making it a career, as they presently do.i.e Robert Byrd served 57 years.

As for the founding fathers, they never envisioned career politicians. The concept was that patriots would take a sabbatical from their daily work, be it farmer, baker, carpenter, businessman etc. and serve a limited period of time for the good of the country; and then return to their private lives. And no, I make no claim to be smarter than the Founding Fathers nor any else for that matter. However the Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, made provisions to amend the Constitution of the United States, which has been done 27 times. Thomas Jefferson wrote that every generation has “a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness.” Most of the time new laws or policies are sufficient to meet changing priorities, but when that’s not the case, the Founding Fathers provided for amending the Constitution of the United States. Washington is broken, its not working effectively, and a large part of this problem is because we have career politicians!

46 posted on 03/19/2012 11:37:28 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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