Ed Leafe <> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Stephen the Cook wrote: > >> Out with the old and in with the new. >> >> I want to take politics out of a lifelong job. Instead I want to >> allow people who want to serve the ability to do so. Instead it's a >> lifetime job in our current system. > > Imagine if it were a job where, if you performed well, you kept it, > but if you didn't, you didn't get to keep it. > > Term limits are the band-aid on the real wound to our government: > campaign financing. If politicians didn't have to spend every minute > after they get elected fund-raising to get re-elected, we might > actually get something done. And removing the flow of money from > lobbyists will at least make it *possible* for a politician to be > somewhat honest. > > Of course, the people who would need to make these changes are the > very scum we need to remove, and they will do everything they can to > maintain the current system that favors them so strongly.
I guess in todays environment a limit to their time in office would work then? Stephen Russell DBA / .Net Developer Memphis TN 38115 901.246-0159 "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.16/582 - Release Date: 12/11/2006 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
