Quote:
Originally Posted by crockett
The only solution I see to the problems in this country's political system would be term limits for everything.
|
the "Other Crockett" hits the nail on the head. With term limits there is far less political pandering as there will be no need for "sound bites" for their next campaign.
Many years ago when I was in DC for the National Chamber of Commerce's conference, I had a conversation with a senator who told me the best thing for the country was term limits and in fact said that campaigning took him away from his job for nearly 25% of each term.
The question becomes, how do we go about this as congress has to approve it as the did with term limits on the presidency. We all know they aren't going to vote themselves out of a career. Some of the authors of the Constitution wanted this however, it did not make it into the final version of the constitution.