Posts Tagged ‘Term Limits’
“We the people” seems to be a term that many politicians have forgotten.
What that means to me is that every person elected to any office by a vote of the general population works for, not against, the will of that population.
The only two people elected to hold Federal Government positions, that are elected by the general population of the entire country are the President and the Vice President. Basically what the people are saying, when they do vote for the President and Vice President is; “we trust you to protect us and provide us with what we want, putting aside your own personal ideas and agendas”.
I guess I almost got to wandering a little bit. Sorry!
These are my thoughts about a platform (with input from a great many people):
1 – Defend our country from illegal invaders at all costs and with all the strength necessary.
2 – Become self sufficient in terms of energy. We have the resources and we should use them to better protect our country.
3 – Repeal the Healthcare Law as it is not in the best interest of our country, economically and national security.
4 – Eliminate the Internal Revenue Service and establish a flat tax or fair tax.
5 – Eliminate the misinterpretation of natural born citizens being anyone born by any parents within the borders of the United States.
6 – Strengthen our national defense.
7 – Get rid of the ACLU.
8 – Amend the Constitution regarding the separation of Church and State. This country was founded on a strong belief in God and should remain that way.
9 – If health care is to be made better, get it out of the hands of the Federal Government. Take a step by step approach and slowly begin to implement such items as cross state border insurance coverage; reduce health care costs by banning drug companies from advertising in the media (much like cigarette advertisements) and so on.
10 – ASK the population what we want and act on it quickly and efficiently.
11 – Remove the ability to add additional provisions to a bill that have nothing to do with that bill.
12 – Add an amendment to the Constitution to establish English as our National Language.
13 – Create term limits for all position, within the Federal Government, that are voted on by the Citizens of the United States.
These are not necessarily in any order and will be sorted out and added to as time goes on.
Here’s an idea regarding term limits for the members of Congress.
- Limit each Senator and Representative to two terms
- Give them the ability to request another term
- They must submit a request one year before national elections
- They are put on the National Election List
- If they have been doing good for the Nation vote them in
- They cannot run after a third term, ever
What do you think?
A few years ago a young man ran for Congress from Florida. One of the things that struck home was his great intentions – he wanted to do what was right for the Country and Florida. I honestly believe that every person that runs for either the Senate, House of Representatives or other public office starts out with the same intentions.
So what happens? Check this carefully and see if it makes sense to you.
1 – they run for office on their principles and with good intentions.
2 – their first term they try to stick to those intentions.
3 – they get re-elected and suddenly a change happens.
4 – they begin to really think of what they are doing as a “job” and now they must do what they can to keep their job. Who elects them? The people in their own state so now they have to begin to “cut deals” to get stuff for their state – like millions of dollars of aide just to vote a certain way. (sound familiar?)
5 – Now they lose their initial vision and start to lose their direction and start to lose site of the importance of what they are doing to OUR COUNTRY.
6 – they begin to think of how they can get re-elected again and they cut more deals, begin to work at getting earmarks for their state and by doing so they hurt our country.
So what do we do about that? We limit the number of terms they can hold office. Now they, knowing that, have nothing to lose so they can continue to hold true to their own beliefs and they remain true to the United States of America.
You know, by doing that they actually increase their “worth” to their own state’s population once they are no longer in a Federal position.
I’d sure hire them!
And that’s my view.