Today on the radio I listened to an unknown pundit saying that \u201cMark Levin was right. We need term limits.\u201d It got me thinking. Until then I too was firmly on the side of term limits. I\u2019ve blogged before about how some of this \u201celected elite\u201d get to Washington and then manage to stay there for decades. Some of the ones there now have been slinking down the halls of power for 40 years or better. They get there and then rather than doing the people\u2019s business, they spend their efforts just finding new ways to \u2013stay there.<\/p>\n
So, I wondered\u2026would term limits help or hurt? It depends on what you want done. If you want a fresh batch of blood and brains circulating through the seat of power, then term limits help. Of course, you\u2019ll never get term limits passed through Congress. Why would they voluntarily decide to pass a law that kicks them out of their job?<\/p>\n
But let\u2019s say the term limits pass? Rather than focusing on the legislative process they will focus on networking and building their future after being forced out of office. It\u2019s human nature\u2014or my definition of it, anyway. I might have a more pessimistic view than do you. But I see the elected diverting to a pure form of \u201cselfish economics\u201d. They will just spend their elected career sowing seeds of favor to the same corporations that now finance campaigns to keep \u201clike minded\u201d politicians in office.<\/p>\n
So, what is our alternative? I don\u2019t see a decent option but changing to socialism, communism, or sharia isn\u2019t one of my choices. We even have to deal with the cronyism we already have, or figure out how to fight the next brand of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today on the radio I listened to an unknown pundit saying that \u201cMark Levin was right. We need term limits.\u201d It got me thinking. Until then I too was firmly on the side of term limits. I\u2019ve blogged before about how some of this \u201celected elite\u201d get to Washington and then manage to stay there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}