FreeMarketUnderBlog

This is one of those debates that most people seem to agree on – except those lowlifes currently in office. Unfortunately that means that real term limits may never happen. 

Clearly, much of the citizens money spent by politicians is spent in buying votes. Bring the bacon home to your district, and your chances of getting re-elected are outstanding. (Simply look at the website of your representative and see how much bragging they do about money brought home to your district.) Other than simply taking the purse strings away from them, which I strongly advocate, limiting terms would also go a long way to avoiding the vote buying game going on today. 

I generally support the one-term approach, entirely removing the need for re-election from the process. I don’t even care if senators get ten year terms – as long as they can’t be re-elected. As for congressman, perhaps 4-6 year terms would work best, again without any possibility for re-election.

The notion that members of congress need experience to “learn how to work within the system” is bogus. If the appropriately miniscule amount of funds flowed through Washington DC, there would be an appropriately miniscule amount of work to do – most of it, I would suggest, of a much more serious nature than the meddling minutia currently undertaken by congress.