I have an honest question about term limits. I agree that something has to be done to curb the rampant corruption, but I fear that with term limits we would end up with a lot of members of congress that don’t know how to do the job correctly. Hopefully I’m wrong, but I’d like to know y’all’s thoughts on it.
Exactly my concern as well. Term limits would not get rid of corruption. You'd just end up with positions that will be controlled by political parties? Same as we have now.
I don't think the issue can be fixed with more restrictions. The corruption needs to be addressed first. It's like taking pain killers everyday to avoid getting knee surgery. Eventually the knee will just give out and leave you in more pain.
I say, fix the corruption and root it out with campaign finance caps, donations can only be given by individuals and not organizations. The RNC and DNC need to have their influence limited. They should only be around to give suggestions to their constitutes. You would see the scum flee once they realize they can't launder money anymore.
We have term limits for the President of the United States... for good reason, and those term limits have proven to be beneficial and effective. It took an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to put that into effect - that is how important it was (they wanted to make sure there was not a repeat of F.D.R.'s 4 terms).
Corruption becomes easier for people that look at a political office as a long-term CAREER for themselves and their cronies. Their purpose is to enrich themselves through graft, kickbacks, insider trading, etc. They go into politics in order to become rich, and that takes time.
In politics, incumbents have huge advantages in terms of name recognition and funding for elections, plus most people in the US have proven over and over again that they are complete morons, if they even bother to vote at all. That is why reelection rates are typically 90% or higher for incumbents.
So "concern-fags" argue that term limits are OK for the President of the United States, but if we applied the same rules to the House or the Senate it would cause too much "experience" to be lost? Really?
I have an honest question about term limits. I agree that something has to be done to curb the rampant corruption, but I fear that with term limits we would end up with a lot of members of congress that don’t know how to do the job correctly. Hopefully I’m wrong, but I’d like to know y’all’s thoughts on it.
Exactly my concern as well. Term limits would not get rid of corruption. You'd just end up with positions that will be controlled by political parties? Same as we have now.
I don't think the issue can be fixed with more restrictions. The corruption needs to be addressed first. It's like taking pain killers everyday to avoid getting knee surgery. Eventually the knee will just give out and leave you in more pain.
I say, fix the corruption and root it out with campaign finance caps, donations can only be given by individuals and not organizations. The RNC and DNC need to have their influence limited. They should only be around to give suggestions to their constitutes. You would see the scum flee once they realize they can't launder money anymore.
We have term limits for the President of the United States... for good reason, and those term limits have proven to be beneficial and effective. It took an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to put that into effect - that is how important it was (they wanted to make sure there was not a repeat of F.D.R.'s 4 terms).
Corruption becomes easier for people that look at a political office as a long-term CAREER for themselves and their cronies. Their purpose is to enrich themselves through graft, kickbacks, insider trading, etc. They go into politics in order to become rich, and that takes time.
In politics, incumbents have huge advantages in terms of name recognition and funding for elections, plus most people in the US have proven over and over again that they are complete morons, if they even bother to vote at all. That is why reelection rates are typically 90% or higher for incumbents.
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/reelection-rates
So "concern-fags" argue that term limits are OK for the President of the United States, but if we applied the same rules to the House or the Senate it would cause too much "experience" to be lost? Really?
I don't think term limits is the answer. If the person is good and fruitful and wants the job he can run, honest elections would weed out the puppets.