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Listener: James
Category: General
Date: 26 Mar 2010
Time: 14:20:48 -0700
Remote Name: 68.89.241.253
Pratt,
I think that a One Term per Lifetime Limit for all U. S. Senators and Representatives is the change to our government that will restore benevolent representation. I want to fix this government design for all time so that my children and yours will enjoy living in a functioning Representative Republic and I need voices like yours to make it happen. Here is my list of reasons for this needed Constitutional Amendment.
1) One or two terms occurred naturally for the first 100 years of our Country
2) It was the original intent of our Founding Fathers to have a Congress that
would serve and then shortly return to live under their own laws.
3) It will create a Citizen Legislature as intended by our Founding Fathers
4) It will end the need to loot the treasury to 'Buy Votes' for the next
election
5) It will end law-making which spans generations and end law-making as a Career
6) It will stop the Entrenched Ruling and Imperial Leadership from Career
Politicians
7) It will reduce the influence of lobbyists and donors on the Lawmakers
8) It will stop the rewarding of Career Politicians with leadership positions
9) It will end the elitist position of Career Politician
10) It will end the exemptions from the law by Lawmakers
11) It will give added interest and importance to every election
12) It will end the re-election advantage of Incumbency
13) It will end the temptations of pork barrel and deficit spending to aid a
re-election
14) It will disconnect the known and the unknown power brokers from their
sources
15) It will devolve the over-reaching power of the U. S. Government back to the
States
16) It will provide the most individual freedom allowed in a Representative
Republic
I think that you have the nerve to throw stones when you have a belief so I hope
that you will become a supporter and help me and our nation to fix this
understandable oversight by our Founding Fathers. I think that our Founding
Fathers would have included a ban on Career Politicians in our U. S.
Constitution if they could have predicted their rise to power. I know that if I
was a Founding Father with the gift to see the future then I would have enacted
a One Term per Lifetime Limit for all Senators and Representatives. Constant
turnover in leadership will keep the lawmakers as weak and as grassroots as
possible and it will force them to live under their own laws. I think that
constant turnover and the removal of Imperial Leadership will slow and perhaps
reverse the advance to Socialism in our Country and that is why it must be
tried. If it is not done, then Career Politicians using wealth re-distribution
laws will ultimately build an un-beatable majority of dependent voters and our
Country will not be able to sustain itself. It is easy to move the wagon when
everyone is pushing but it is impossible to move the wagon when everyone is
riding.
Thanks for Listening,
From an Integrated Circuit Designer
James
Pratt responds:
I think we’d do just as well to go back to state
legislatures electing senators. Moving to popular elections removed all sway
(purposefully) of the states in the Congress. The framers knew what they were
doing when they had states appoint senators.
Your ideas are fine but I’m against a constitutional convention as there is no
sure way to limit what such convention does.
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