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Offline IsailedawayfromFR

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We The People.....5 min video term limits
« on: October 27, 2019, 08:43:44 pm »
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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2019, 09:14:29 pm »
aren't elections our defacto term limits?
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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2019, 10:15:44 pm »
Quote from: OfTheCross on October 27, 2019, 09:14:29 pm
aren't elections our defacto term limits?
Watch the video
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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2019, 10:53:54 pm »
Quote from: OfTheCross on October 27, 2019, 09:14:29 pm
aren't elections our defacto term limits?

Not actually.  Supreme court justices have no term limits. She is 86 years old and has been serving for the past 26 years. Also, If we take McConnel for example; he is the longest serving Senator in Kentucky history AND the longest serving GOP majority leader in history.  He has been serving since 1985 and has been re-elected 5 times; so he's been serving for nearly 35 years.  He's been serving in politics for even longer than that.  He is 77 years old.  Using these two examples, I'd say there is something to be said for term limits.

We have term limits on the presidency of 8 years.  I'd like to see Senators and Congressmen along with Supreme Court justices have term limits of 10 years.  I think a decade is long enough.
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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2019, 10:57:31 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on October 27, 2019, 10:15:44 pm
Watch the video

I did. He's talking about term limits for congresspeople
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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2019, 12:10:52 am »
Quote from: OfTheCross on October 27, 2019, 10:57:31 pm
I did. He's talking about term limits for congresspeople
You watch but did not apparently listen.

What was discussed was the consolidation of power by those in power to further their terms in office.

That is why term limits by the ballot box cannot be effective, particularly when a compliant media will not keep politicians honest.
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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2019, 12:26:42 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on October 28, 2019, 12:10:52 am
You watch but did not apparently listen.

What was discussed was the consolidation of power by those in power to further their terms in office.

That is why term limits by the ballot box cannot be effective, particularly when a compliant media will not keep politicians honest.

So, let's fix gerrymandering, where the politicians choose their constituents, and lets get big PAC and corporate financing out of the game too, so that they can't buy our Representatives

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Re: We The People.....5 min video term limits
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2019, 11:57:16 am »
Quote from: OfTheCross on October 28, 2019, 12:26:42 am
So, let's fix gerrymandering, where the politicians choose their constituents, and lets get big PAC and corporate financing out of the game too, so that they can't buy our Representatives
All of which are the products of making laws.

Who do you think pass legislation anyway?
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