I'd like to know.
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
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Term limits bad?
| Yes. | 28% | 28% - 13 | ||||
| No. | 58% | 58% - 27 | ||||
| Piss off! | 13% | 13% - 6 | ||||
| Total: 46 | ||||||
Good leaders only get to stay 8 years, but bad leaders get office for 8.
Piss off term limit, its not the presidents fault the people are too stupid to vote for someone better.
Piss off term limit, its not the presidents fault the people are too stupid to vote for someone better.
Top level politicians have mastered the art of campaigning. Without a mandated term limit it would be the same stagnant ideology getting "the funding". Sometimes you have to flush the toilet water.. even if it's shit going back in.
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It would be nice if there was an presidential election every year.
I agree, just look at the Senate. The power of the incumbant becomes almighty, while they grow accustomed to their power and the perquisites that come with it, and are willing to fight as well as cut unsavory deals to keep that power. A lack of term limits is one of the major problems in the US political system today.Kmarion wrote:
Top level politicians have mastered the art of campaigning. Without a mandated term limit it would be the same stagnant ideology getting "the funding". Sometimes you have to flush the toilet water.. even if it's shit going back in.
How about on local issues? You have a person in office terming out that has a dynamic working knowledge of the issues at hand with positive community backing, who would be reelected hands down landslide, but.....
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Ideally, they're bad. Realistically, they're good. Can't let one person brainwash the nation.
Institutional knowledge count for anything? I've seen more time wasted....
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I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Same on local issues. You can be a whiz-bang mayor, but you can't let the city become your personal fiefdom.DBBrinson1 wrote:
How about on local issues? You have a person in office terming out that has a dynamic working knowledge of the issues at hand with positive community backing, who would be reelected hands down landslide, but.....
I don't understand though. If the people want you to run their town -then...... . .imortal wrote:
Same on local issues. You can be a whiz-bang mayor, but you can't let the city become your personal fiefdom.DBBrinson1 wrote:
How about on local issues? You have a person in office terming out that has a dynamic working knowledge of the issues at hand with positive community backing, who would be reelected hands down landslide, but.....
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
Let's just put it this way, Machiavelli would be utterly opposed to term limits.
They work as long as they don't vote themselves extensions (ala Major Bloomberg of New York City and Medelvev President of Russia).
I think all elected officials should be subject to a two term limit.
It would cut down on corruption, feather-bedding and career politicians.
It would mean politicians would need to stay connected with the real world.
It would cut down on corruption, feather-bedding and career politicians.
It would mean politicians would need to stay connected with the real world.
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Do you honestly think any politicians would vote for a limit on their own cushy jobs?Dilbert_X wrote:
I think all elected officials should be subject to a two term limit.
It would cut down on corruption, feather-bedding and career politicians.
It would mean politicians would need to stay connected with the real world.
...
Thought not.
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
Its not bad.
We have term limits. They're called "elections."
Duh.
Duh.
and who wants idiots getting elected again and again and again.......
Robert Menzies served 17 years as Australia's prime minister and was one of the most successful we ever had.Schwarzelungen wrote:
and who wants idiots getting elected again and again and again.......
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
HollisHurlbut wrote:
We have term limits. They're called "elections."
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Term limits are one of the cornerstones of a proper democracy.
Says who?CameronPoe wrote:
Term limits are one of the cornerstones of a proper democracy.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Says anyone who isn't interested in monarchy, oligarchy, despotism, dictatorship, corruption, etc. - unlike Russians for instance. It's a vital defence against populism.FEOS wrote:
Says who?CameronPoe wrote:
Term limits are one of the cornerstones of a proper democracy.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2008-11-14 03:38:16)
Can you get enough done in 4 years? Is 8 years (assuming u get 2 terms) enough to enact all your policies?
No, its not
No, its not
Term limits are necessary for healthy democracy and so in that sense are good.
An absence of term limits would pave the way for all the bad forms of Government i.e dictatorships, monarchies, oligarchies, stratocracies, plutocracies... thanks but no thanks.
An absence of term limits would pave the way for all the bad forms of Government i.e dictatorships, monarchies, oligarchies, stratocracies, plutocracies... thanks but no thanks.
Term limits are a corner stone of Democracy.
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