Career Politicians. Do we need 'em?

Regardless of which party you are generally affiliated with, wouldn’t it be great if we could weed out all the scum bags? All political parties have them. Typically, they are the career politicians. The ones who have been around so long that they think they answer to no one. These are the professional liars, the accomplished thieves, the elite egomaniacs, the gluttonous power mongers, and those who believe that their family’s wealth makes them special.

Why do we keep voting these parasites into office?

One reason is that the longer we keep these slobs in Washington, the more powerful they become. This often translates into more pork spending in their home states/districts. So, in the current environment, it may actually be in the people’s best interest to keep sending the most dishonorable and selfish individual they can dig up to congress.

A good friend of mine recently suggested that I should stop just complaining about things on this blog and to offer my suggested solution(s) to the problem as well. Okay, here goes . . .

The answer: . . . . . . . . term limits!

Congress likes to talk about how important they are. Whenever they feel that their relevance is being questioned or tested, they turn absolutely rabid. Just like the President, and for the same reasons, members of congress should be subject to term limits. Their positions are simply too important, and too subject to abuse, not to impose mandatory term limits.

With term limits, no congressman or senator would be around long enough to become quite so self-important and corrupt.

With term limits, voters won’t be so anxious to elect the least honorable candidate.

With term limits, there will never again be an “old boys” network controlling Washington.

Of course, it’s not your state, or my state that elects these scum bags. Term limits will protect the rest of us from the slovenly apathy of those states that do.

One sure way of identifying the truly dishonorable members of congress is to ask them about term limits. Those who vehemently disagree with term limits “because it’s not good for the people of their state/district” . . . . . are the worst of the lot and need to be gotten rid of as soon as possible.

Think Term Limits!