Term Limits Anyone? Anyone….,

Posted by Dennis55 1 year, 2 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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I bring this up a couple times a year.
Are we ready yet? Are the arguments against term limits more valid than what we tolerate now?
Tonight Hannity said —it’s a bad idea whose time has come. I’m not in lockstep with Fox News or CNN. My own mind says let’s try it. Along with a number of other restrictions on lawmakers when they leave (or are currently ) in office.
Who is John Galt?


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 2 months ago
    Unfortunately, term limits cannot prevent corruption. But you do occasionally get some well meaning honest people elected. In our case, when they go to Washington they think it is their Homeland!
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    • Posted by 1 year, 2 months ago
      I love your posts and comments and look forward to reading them. However I’m going to slightly disagree.
      If as you say we have a handful of great honest Congress people I believe that makes my case. If we have 5 ( or 10 or 50) great people out of 435 then we need a change. Maybe if the elected had 4-6 years to make a difference there could be less corruption. They wouldn’t spend their FIRST term building a personal war chest of questionable funds to maintain their kingdom. They need not spend two years taking the bucks and making promises to the Lobbyists and reflection.
      I think term limits would strike the funding source of this nonsense right in the heart.
      And as others have said-they have to live like we do. Overpay for healthcare. Try to add to their own 401k, and when policy trashes their funds they rebuild-like us.
      We have created a royal class and it’s time to stop it.
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      • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 2 months ago
        Let me tell you something. When I was a Federal Lobbyist for one of the oldest lobbying Associations in the U.S. My opinion of Congress people was they had the attitude, "Now that I've been elected, my first responsibility is to get myself re-elected!' They forget us when they get to D.C. Trust me on this.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 2 months ago
    Two edged sword. It would end the services of the helpful as well as the corrupt. IMHO, term limits would be good for the likes of Pelosi or Schumer or the turtle, but let's not be hasty to throw out Rand Paul or Jim Jordan.
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    • Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 2 months ago
      Its 433 to 2 then.
      I'd toss them all and set term limits to ONE TERM of 4 years.
      Never have to raise funding for re-elections and never have any 'professional' looters, er con-men, er reprehensiblatives.
      Hell, call them by the true name, traitors.
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      • Posted by Dobrien 1 year, 2 months ago
        Agree but , I say fix the vote before anything else.
        If you get a fair election and not an infiltration this would not likely be an issue cause the frauds wouldn’t get re-elected.
        Plus 1 , 6 yr term for President.
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      • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 2 months ago
        Point taken. Looking at it that way, clean 'em all out and offer apologies to the likes of Paul and Jordan. It wasn't hard to persuade me on this one, FFA, LOL.
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        • Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 2 months ago
          One step further, all the retirees must never work in or for or consult for or even contact government again.
          That will make them nearly useless as corrupting influence to industry.
          The idea is to make politics a dead end and that only patriots who value liberty will want to serve there for a short period.
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  • Posted by mhubb 1 year, 2 months ago
    i'll settle for

    more laws on insider trading that covers politicians
    they get the same retirement as We the People

    they get the same medical care once out of office as We the People

    they cannot keep unspent campaign funds once out of office

    you can hold any one office for 2 or 3 terms, then you must stay out for at least one term for the office you want to run for

    not going directly into industry you regulated, a cool off period is required

    no lobbyist jobs, for a cool off period

    details to be worked out

    and we need to short the time Lame Duck congress critters are allowed to screw with laws
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year, 2 months ago
    America has 4 million Federal employees. They would remain even if the President and Vice President and all 435 members of Congress were to be replaced this afternoon. The Faucis, Wrays, mayorkisis' would not be affected in any way.

    Bureaucrats stay, Individual Rights diminish.

    The only ways back to freedom are to;
    Vote them out,
    Shoot them out or,
    massive civil disobedience them out.
    The first way hasn't worked. The second hasn't been tried in 247 years and the third has never been tried.

    What can we do as men of action to reduce the number of bureaucrats?
    https://usafacts.org/annual-publicati...
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