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Thursday, December 1, 2011

New American: 'Term Limits - A Threat to our Constitution'

Source:New American- The U.S. House of Representatives; the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress. Regardless of what the guy in this video says.

"This 1997 fact-filled presentation dispels any notion that good government can result from a game of musical chairs in government via term limits." 

From the New American

The main reason why I don't like term limits in Congress (even if they are generous) is because I don't like the idea of government limiting who we can vote for, as long as we meet basic qualifications: we are alive, free, American citizens, and meet the basic age requirement to run for office. 

The reason why term limits makes sense for executives, president's (I would add vice president's) governors , county executives, and mayors, is because there's a lot of power given to executives, individual power and you don't want them in Public Office indefinitely making decisions based on how to get reelected. But if you term limit executives, that gives them the political freedom, until their term is over, to make decisions that may not be popular, but may be the right thing to do. And of course they can make unpopular decisions that are the wrong thing to do, like pardoning murderers that are clearly guilty and that sort of thing. 

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