TERM LIMITS FOR THE SENATE AND CONGRESS AND RETIREMENT PAY
Term Limits
All Senators and Congressmen need to have term limits. This is a major problem in Washington. We cannot allow this to keep going on. Elected officials should have to come back to the private sector and deal with the laws that they pass. I also think that one of the reasons the Federal Government is so large and powerful is that some elected officials stay there for so long they forget that Government is not a business. There should not be career politicians. Go and serve the public and leave.
We need to have citizen-legislators in office. These people will focus on the job at hand and not worry about constantly running for reelection. Elected officials will try to do more when they are in office and not hold off on legislation until the next election. This will open up the process to more Americans to show what they have to offer. Term Limits are another systemic problem in Washington and the reason the whole system is broken.
Below is some information I pulled right off of the Citizens for term limits website. Please look at www.termlimits.com for more information.
What is desperately needed is the brand of public servants our founders, authors of the Constitution envisioned—the kind of statesmen who go to Congress to serve. These were to be citizen public servants who would go to Washington to serve their neighbors and their country for a limited time only. They would temporarily leave their citizen pursuits to serve briefly, bringing their everyday heartland common sense with them, then to return home to live among those neighbors after having completed their citizen responsibilities—to live under the laws they have just passed. Why should that sound so bizarre today?
In a country where Presidents can stay only eight years, these hangers on want lifetime tenure. We believe that six year limits in each chamber are adequate for the kind of citizen servants we seek, who see service in Washington as a duty, not a privilege.
Polls show that Americans want congressional term limitation by margins of three-to-one, even four-to-one. This is the issue that separates American citizens, who want to recapture their government, from a careerist-dominated Congress and its illegitimate bureaucratic offspring, the Beltway Elitists, who want to run our lives.
Congress, whose arrogant spending has bankrupted our nation and destroyed our currency, sets its own self-authored six-figure pay plus perquisites and pensions as if compensation were to be calculated based on its unbridled spending rather than on prudent governance. Indeed, our pandering Congress has created a counter-productive envy-based tax system which penalizes extra effort and success.
Congressional term limitation is the most important issue of our time, because the very survival of the country depends upon it. There is no alternative path to restore government to the people. There is no substitute for term limitation.
We now have a God-given chance, a once-only opportunity to change the direction in which our nation is headed. The American people are waiting to be led. If we citizens fail to seize this moment by providing the leadership to get term limits accomplished, then history will judge us harshly. Our children and their children will judge us harshly. We won’t get a second chance.
That leadership must come from us, the citizens. Now.
No nation can ever be greater than the combined character, integrity and virtue of its leaders. Where are character, integrity and virtue today?
The hour is late. Never in our history has the need been more desperate.
