POLITICS: Term limits would give the people more voice
The voice of the public would be heard a lot louder and clearer if the people we voted in weren’t embedded in office. There are plenty of bright, capable minds with fresh new ideas out there that would...
View ArticleU.S.: Ideas for saving the country
Here are four suggestions for saving our country. • Term limits on elected legislators (national and state). Career politicians have lost sight, refuse to recognize or understand what the people of...
View ArticleDEBT: Quit spending what we don’t have
So why is the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world teetering on the brink of possible financial disaster? As with all complicated problems there is no one simple solution. But...
View ArticlePOLITICS: Vote out all incumbents
I would like to suggest an approach to the next election that has never been attempted in our history: Let’s vote out every incumbent, whether they be Democrat, Republican or something in between. Vote...
View ArticleDEBT: This is why we need term limits
Re: “No supercommittee deal struck” (TNT, 11-22). The deficit-reduction supercommittee could not come to a compromise even though the outcome could send the country into another recession. The article...
View ArticleCONGRESS: Is it time for Senate term limits?
Shortly after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, Congress amended the Constitution to put a two-term limit on the presidency. This was to prevent the complete consolidation of executive power...
View ArticleCONGRESS: A pox on both their houses
If anything speaks to the need for term limits it is the way members of both parties in the U.S. House and Senate are behaving like spoiled brats, by posturing, posing and playing chicken with our...
View ArticleCONGRESS: It’s past time for term limits
The president can only serve two terms in office. It’s time to limit the terms that members of Congress serve, too. It seems that the longer elected officials serve, the more distance separates them...
View ArticleCONGRESS: Here’s how to boost its rating
I read with interest that Speaker of the House John Boehner feels that Congress should be judged on how many laws it repeals (TNT, 7-22). What a great idea, since they are the ones that created the law...
View ArticleCONGRESS: Term limits would be liberating
Recently, I watched Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer complain of “business as usual” in reference to the congressional logjam over the debt ceiling and Obamacare. Hoyer is incorrect in his criticism of...
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