Thank you. Your eloquent, profound articulation re. "Over The Transom" is spot on.
It triggered my historical-oriented brain cells to recall the reason we need to enforce our Founding Father's original concept of having "citizen representatives" elected to The House and The Senate for short terms of service to "we the people".
Point being, we need Term Limits in The House and The Senate... two Term limits each... although I will concede The House could be two 4-year Terms instead of 2-year Terms. These short Term Limits would help eliminate a lot of today's government corruption and related corporate manipulations. Plus, no former elected official should ever be allowed to become a Lobbyist... and no former military officers should ever be allowed to retire and then work for manufacturers of military weapons and/or supplies.
Thanks, David - and thanks to you family for keeping things together these last 200+ years!
I worked with the U.S. Term Limits, Washington, DC when doing AM Drive on WWRC. John Taylor (RIP) was a big help back then. Thought we were doing All The Right Stuff. Maybe we were - but then came U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995) and the Supreme Robes struck down an Arkansas law that imposed term limits on members of Congress, holding that states cannot add to or alter the qualifications for service in Congress that are set out in the Constitution. As a result, individual states cannot set term limits for their representatives and senators that are different from the limits set by the Constitution. Bottom line: term limits have to be approved and imposed by the very people least inclined to give up their cushy gigs and bennies to root out the very corruption they're contributing to, actively or passively. It's an uphill battle and - good as it would be for the country - I don't see any reasonable way to pull it off. All the petitions in the country aren't going to sway less-than-stellar 'elected officials' to the Yes column. I could be wrong - and hope I am.
Brian...
Thank you. Your eloquent, profound articulation re. "Over The Transom" is spot on.
It triggered my historical-oriented brain cells to recall the reason we need to enforce our Founding Father's original concept of having "citizen representatives" elected to The House and The Senate for short terms of service to "we the people".
Point being, we need Term Limits in The House and The Senate... two Term limits each... although I will concede The House could be two 4-year Terms instead of 2-year Terms. These short Term Limits would help eliminate a lot of today's government corruption and related corporate manipulations. Plus, no former elected official should ever be allowed to become a Lobbyist... and no former military officers should ever be allowed to retire and then work for manufacturers of military weapons and/or supplies.
Sincerely,
David Hill, CGC
10th Generation American, since 1719.
Thanks, David - and thanks to you family for keeping things together these last 200+ years!
I worked with the U.S. Term Limits, Washington, DC when doing AM Drive on WWRC. John Taylor (RIP) was a big help back then. Thought we were doing All The Right Stuff. Maybe we were - but then came U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995) and the Supreme Robes struck down an Arkansas law that imposed term limits on members of Congress, holding that states cannot add to or alter the qualifications for service in Congress that are set out in the Constitution. As a result, individual states cannot set term limits for their representatives and senators that are different from the limits set by the Constitution. Bottom line: term limits have to be approved and imposed by the very people least inclined to give up their cushy gigs and bennies to root out the very corruption they're contributing to, actively or passively. It's an uphill battle and - good as it would be for the country - I don't see any reasonable way to pull it off. All the petitions in the country aren't going to sway less-than-stellar 'elected officials' to the Yes column. I could be wrong - and hope I am.