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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
Truly gonna be a sad and pathetic time in America until various wrongs are righted and the hypocrisy in politics on both sides of the isle and from lowest to the highest office (state and federal) is shamed and voted out, or shown the door. Term limits were never needed more in our history than now. No one should yield the power that some believe they have to hold our country hostage and deny us our God given rights and constitutional protections to be free to make our own choices. Laws are a good thing, they make a democracy work for everyone, but laws for me and not for thee is a most dangerous precedent to set.
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Term limits should have been implemented when they did it after FDR's four terms that he served. But why would a Senator or Representative propose something that would limit their stay in Congress? They would never suggest such a bill. Some members of Congress, including the lovely Shiela Jackson Lee, (which has proposed H.R.127 - To provide for the licensing of firearm and ammunition possession and the registration of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of certain ammunition.) has said herself that she is a queen and should be treated as such. She demands to be waited on hand and foot because she has done so much in her 25+ years in the House of Representatives. How is someone like that, that has done nothing for her constituents.
I understand their has to be some sort of leadership for some of the more important committees and things like that but something has to give. Making an entire career out of public service is too much. They have lost touch with Americans as they hangout in their ivory tower and impose their morals upon us as they do what they are telling us not to.
Another area that needs to be addressed is campaign finance. Members of Congress might as well be wearing jerseys with the corporate overlords on them to let us know who they belong to. I understand that corporations are considered persons under the law but how is it that they get more of a say then the 330+ million people that they so call represent.