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To: DavidFarrar
1. Congressional Term Limits: One four or six year term*

First, there is no Congressman who serves a four year term, so that immediately shows that this is a list set down by emotion rather than fact.

Second, term limits empower the bureaucracy by shifting power from the elected official who must face responsibility at the ballot box towards the unelected staffers who run the show 90% of the time already.

Want to get rid of a corrupt Congressman? Vote him out of office. If he keeps getting re-elected, then he must represent the views of his district.

Educating people (the phrase "You get what you vote for" works as an opener when someone starts criticizing the government) and getting others to consider their votes worth something will turn this country around.

Not a list of demands that aren't thought through and have no chance of being implemented by those is charge.

16 posted on 01/19/2010 9:43:10 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Tea Party Conventions agree with Founding Fathers. But what do they know about the Constitution?


17 posted on 01/19/2010 9:51:53 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Second, term limits empower the bureaucracy by shifting power from the elected official who must face responsibility at the ballot box towards the unelected staffers who run the show 90% of the time already.

That's one big problem with term limits.

But I've got another solution: session limits; one six-month session per year.

In my estimation, the big problem with our representatives is Washington -- its elitist environment, its arrogant atmosphere, its provincial denizens.

In order to avoid "getting out of touch" with their constituents, representatives need to spend more time with their constituents -- and not become creatures of Washington.

State legislatures can finish their business in sessions as short as three months for two years. If they had to do without three day work weeks and frequent recesses, Congress could get it done inside six months.

And, if there wasn't time to get some of their "work" done, the nation would probably be better off for it.

20 posted on 01/19/2010 10:03:41 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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