It is really annoying when we have government officials who fundamentally don't understand how our government or its laws work.
It's bad faith, intellectual dishonesty, and cowardice. And sadly: it's the norm.
Too many elected officials value their political career over doing the right thing. I think that's probably the strongest argument for term limits: being a professional politician just shouldn't exist as a career track.
We won't get any real change until we get term limits (and then campaign finance reform) and we won't get that till the current incumbents are out.
What floored me was learning ex-prez's get a $1 million travel allowance/year! That seems a bit excessive, to say the least :-P
If you’re just going to go golfing you can do that on your dime.
TBH, the sad part is, I can't even think of how you'd categorize usage without someone finding a loophole. Wish I could have a higher opinion of our politicians.
Congress is already a farm league for K street and would be even more so with term limits. More experienced lobbyists would have more leverage with term limited newbies in the government.
That’s not to say there are no negatives to long serving clueless members, but term limits may not be better.
I used to be a big supporter of term limits for congress, but changed my mind a while ago.
But if a pol is good at their job they shouldn't get pushed out; we just need to find ways so that they don't remain by inertia alone.
If you figure that one out...Let me know :-) We've had McConnell and Pelosi since the mid 80s! Inertia seems to be the main force in politics (why? I have no idea)
I think you could also make the argument that after a few decades in congress, it becomes less and less likely that someone has a real sense of what life is like outside of that world, what the average citizen wants and needs from their government, and in some cases how the culture and technology of the world around them actually functions.
Even if a it means loosing a few good people, I think overall some reasonable term limits would have a positive impact overall. They don't even have to be short limits, even something like a 24 year limit would make a huge impact.
> "The United States must not support any other governments that infringe upon the right to self-determination."
Trade deals have been our main method of influence change around the world and this would just sign away our ability to do that.
Some stuff is interesting but for every good one there is a random poison pill inside.