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jimnyc
06-27-2017, 04:01 PM
I really would like to see this happen. Someday, somehow, this needs to happen. No more lifers screwing up our country.

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Charlie Daniels: Our Nation Is a Mess – It’s Time for Term Limits

The past eight years have seen the advent of a national health care program that was designed to fail and foster a federal single payer plan, a high up Internal Revenue Service official pleading the Fifth Amendment when accused of using the power of the agency to persecute organizations of a differing political persuasion, an attorney general whose hair-brained Mexican cartel gun-running scheme got people killed on both sides of the border and couldn’t be investigated because his boss sealed the records, and another who met privately with an ex-president whose wife was under federal investigation by an entity of the department she administered.

We saw a president caught on a microphone he didn’t know was open sending a personal message to Vladimir Putin but was never accused of collusion by the adoring media.

We saw the national debt doubled to proportions that soon, without drastic action, will devour the lion’s share of American GDP just to service the interest on the loans.

We saw the bloodiest manifestation of radical Islam yet, as ISIS filled the vacuum left in Iraq by the premature withdrawal of American troops.

We saw America further divided along racial, ethnic and financial lines, a festering disrespect for law, the wholesale release of thousands of drug offenders from prisons, a massive effort to inundate America with refugees from war-torn nations where the infrastructure for any hope of adequate vetting has been destroyed.

We’ve seen an attempt by elitist academia to reduce the influence of men and blame the nation’s problems on a supposed white male driven colonialist environment that shuns

racial equality, creates glass ceilings and places barriers in the path of all non-whites.

We’ve seen violent protests, riots, window smashing, car burning, and we are now on the verge of whole states declaring bankruptcy.

We don’t even know how many illegal immigrants are in our country, much less who they are, where they came from, what diseases they could be carrying and if their intentions in coming to America include blowing part of it up.

Our schools are turning out functional illiterates and much of the university population is majoring in subjects with little or no practical application and will be forced to take a job far below their academic abilities.

Our military has been put on the back burner at a most dangerous time in our history, while China and Russia expand their military capabilities and the pudgy little maniac in North Korea is developing nuclear toys to play with.

The Republicans are up to their usual old tricks of looking a gift horse in the mouth and pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Democrats have placed all their political capital in one basket. And if and when the Russian collusion thing falls apart – and it’s already getting frayed around the edges – what do they have left?

Rest here - http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charlie-daniels/charlie-daniels-our-nation-mess-its-time-term-limits

jimnyc
06-27-2017, 04:01 PM
Btw, when I say no more lifers, that applies to BOTH sides.

pete311
06-27-2017, 04:20 PM
Would you vote yourself a term limit at your current job? Nope, neither will congress.

jimnyc
06-27-2017, 04:43 PM
Would you vote yourself a term limit at your current job? Nope, neither will congress.

We need outsiders that can somehow get the ball rolling and somehow ultimately make an amendment, IMO. It's such a shame that they wouldn't go along with it willingly, and IMO that alone shows that they shouldn't be there. We need folks there that truly want to go and represent their respective locales.

Seems like now that when someone gets elected, for them it's like hitting the lottery that keeps on giving. :(

Black Diamond
06-27-2017, 04:46 PM
Would you vote yourself a term limit at your current job? Nope, neither will congress.
Would have to be done by amending the constitution. Similar to after FDR

pete311
06-27-2017, 04:48 PM
We need outsiders that can somehow get the ball rolling and somehow ultimately make an amendment, IMO. It's such a shame that they wouldn't go along with it willingly, and IMO that alone shows that they shouldn't be there. We need folks there that truly want to go and represent their respective locales.

Seems like now that when someone gets elected, for them it's like hitting the lottery that keeps on giving. :(

Congress is self fulfilling in many ways. They will never vote themselves out of a job. Incumbents historically do better than new faces.