is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
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is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
Thank you. Term limits are the reason we had George H Bush, and why we only get Trump for 8 years.
If applied to Congress, all we would do is create an unelected beaurocratic class of congressional staffers. Because that is where the institutional memory and knowledge would be retained.
This isn't the Executive. The Congress is a more representative body that can provide it's own checks and balances more effectively. Any new representative is going to bring new energy into the office and remove opposition in their own ranks. In effect, it might do more to actually drain the swamp than not.
The Swamp isn't caused by length of exposure time.
It is caused by the corrupting influence of power. Unaccountable power is the general source of the problem.
Installing term limits merely shifts the knowledge of how and who to work with into the unaccountable staffers and lobbyists further reducing the already limited amount of accountability we still have.
Who hires the staffers? Wouldn't new people be more likely to eliminate old staffers?
Not the smart ones. If you really pay attention, even the anti establishment renegades end up hiring established staffers into their offices about a year in. They realize that its the only way to get anything done.
Yep. I would prefer no individual shall claim government funded paychecks for more than 16 years of their life.
Granted this still allows for interns & deep state to operate.
I do think term limits can be acceptable but they're not going to be short. I'm thinking like 30-ish years as a rep/senator combined (Federally). Throw on 8 years as a president and you're still shy of some of the career politicians.
I think 3 terms for Senate and 8 for house. 18 and 16 years respectively.
I am thinking 20 tops to prevent nearly full life employment by government funded agencies. It should be done as a service/sacrifice of time, not a career.
The govt employees and staff first have to be term limited.