Limiting consecutive terms to 2 terms in the Senate and 6 in the House. Good idea or no?
1/13/2012 9:43:21 PM
Those fuckers will never vote themselves term limits. Never.If you'd like, you can send Gingrich back to try again.
1/13/2012 10:05:57 PM
^ this and if they did pass it they would run every other term with a partner.
1/13/2012 10:27:05 PM
Its a great idea, but it will never happen
1/14/2012 4:06:50 PM
This would probably require a constitutional convention. There'd need to be some kind of national movement to pressure state legislators to do it.
1/14/2012 4:08:11 PM
horrible idea.
1/14/2012 4:09:56 PM
Yeah, man. Imagine how many good politicians we would lose if term limits were implemented.For real, though, explain yourself.
1/14/2012 4:17:31 PM
I've been thinking about this as well. There's always bitching about Senators getting too comfortable and too many corporate ties when he's in there forever, and the only way to get them out is term limits or scandals.
1/14/2012 4:38:02 PM
I think its a bad idea too. I can barely find this reasonable for the house, and I'd say no more than 20 terms then.
1/14/2012 5:02:33 PM
Its a horrible idea because he is employed by the political machine.
1/14/2012 5:32:26 PM
1/14/2012 5:49:42 PM
I'm out of politics chance.But at the end of the day all term limits do is hand over power and knowledge of the legislative system from the elected representatives to unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists.
1/15/2012 5:00:13 AM
Well, right now, a member of Congress must serve at least five years to be eligible for any pension, so I think term limits is a great idea in that aspect.I like the age requirements for both houses.I actually think TOTAL service to 12 years is enough. They can split it up any way they decide.Lifetime (federal) politicians are always a bad idea, especially if they don't have other jobs.Now that I think about it...what about letting a person serve more than 12 years in office, as long as they forgo their congressional pensions?
1/15/2012 10:19:45 AM
I think we should be able to Democratically elect whoever we want, regardless of how many times they've served in the past. I'd prefer to remove all term limits for all offices, including the Presidency, and also remove all requirements regarding age and the "natural born citizen" thing. Why be so afraid of letting the people electing who they want to elect?[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 11:54 AM. Reason : .]
1/18/2012 11:54:11 AM
Because a lot of people don't know what's good for them. They're dumbed down people that haven't been taught to think for themselves. Anything we can do to prevent career politicians from taking hold is moving in the right direction.
1/18/2012 12:24:24 PM
1/18/2012 12:26:22 PM
How many times have you ranted about Socialists and Liberals thinking people are dumb babies who have to be coddled and have their decisions made for them? Now you're attacking Democracy itself because people are too dumb to know what's good for them? Jesus Christ you are the most oblivious little ball of contradiction and hypocrisy imaginable. Either that or you're not thinking a quarter as much as I'm giving you credit for and just react to stuff, your general heuristic being "Gubmint bad Capital gud!"Seriously, what you're saying amounts to "People can't be counted on to make the right decision for themselves, so we should regulate elections to ensure they make the right choices."You realize if we replaced "election" with any kind of commerce whatsoever, you'd be in a spitting fury?[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM. Reason : .]
1/18/2012 12:29:57 PM
I'm against democracy because it's mob rule by another name. The inescapable truth is that, in representative democracy, the slim majority (or even a simple plurality) gets to force the rest of the country to go along with whatever they say.Would you really deny that the majority may very well force the minority to go along with something that is not in the minority's best interests? I mean, I get it - in your mind, the "majority" are the working class, and the minority are "capital owners", but this isn't how it actually works out.Democracy is only acceptable in a heavily decentralized system.
1/18/2012 12:36:12 PM
Lmao now you think individual commerce decisions don't affect others, how deep does this rabbit hole go...
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1/18/2012 1:04:20 PM
Hmm it's almost as though blanket statements like "Federal government always best" or "Always leave it to the States" are, like all blanket statements, wrong...
1/18/2012 1:08:16 PM
So how would you determine what should be handled by the federal government, and what should be handled by the states?
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1/18/2012 1:23:20 PM
^^Geez, dude, are you capable of replying to anything without condescending sarcasm?
1/18/2012 1:24:38 PM
Again, that's totally dependent on other factors. It's easier to move from Germany to Luxembourg than from Florida to Alaska. The sooner you realize the various levels of government are mostly arbitrary lines of distinction, the sooner you'll see how foolish it is to take firm positions on it.And...seriously...you'd put anti-Federalism above anti-racism? And yeah, aaronburro is always condescending, it's because he's a fucking moron and knows it so he tries extra hard to project intellectual superiority.[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 1:31 PM. Reason : .]
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1/18/2012 1:58:54 PM
I'm glad that's what you got out of my post, bro.
1/18/2012 2:01:23 PM
You don't subscribe to adultswim's idea that if you don't like it, you should just move?Moving is easy, you know.Anyone can do it.
1/18/2012 2:10:06 PM
What? That's clearly not the point I was making. I don't expect anyone to move because they disagree with some of the things their state does.I'm saying that if it were to become bad enough, the option is there. On the other hand, most people can't escape the country.[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 2:13 PM. Reason : .]
1/18/2012 2:12:56 PM
1/18/2012 2:15:44 PM
Option A. Government bans marijuana for all states.Option B. Government lets state governments decide whether or not to ban marijuana.Many more people are able to escape this unjust law in Option B than Option A.Am I going to move out of this state so I can smoke weed? No. But I appreciate that I have that choice. At a certain point, if enough of my lifestyle is violated, I absolutely would move. It hasn't reached that point for me.Again, yours and str8foolish's beliefs assume that the federal government is more benevolent than the states. That is simply not quantifiable. I would rather leave most things up to the states, where it's easier to make yourself heard, or leave if you feel that it's necessary. If you want to dumb my argument down so you can comprehend it, that's your prerogative.[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 2:40 PM. Reason : .]
1/18/2012 2:37:40 PM
1/18/2012 3:19:37 PM
You're being obtuse. The federal government can (and has) made decisions I agree with. The problem we're discussing is what happens when it makes bad decisions. How do you limit the damage? When the federal government makes bad legislation, we're fucked. When the state makes bad legislation, we're a little less fucked.
1/18/2012 3:22:05 PM
I was completely unaware that the United States lacked courts, repeals, and an election process.Thank you for educating me. Now that I know every decision the federal government makes is perpetual and everlasting, I wholeheartedly agree that the federal government should be completely eviscerated. Fifty individual governments--with no meaningful oversight or binding framework--will surely be better.
1/18/2012 3:32:51 PM
unfortunately, this:
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1/18/2012 3:41:02 PM
...and your proposed solution is to essentially eliminate the federal government. Is that correct?
1/18/2012 3:42:37 PM
No, it's to limit the federal government to roles defined by the Constitution....after repealing the 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve Act, of course.
1/18/2012 3:45:05 PM
ha nutsmackr was all "nope horrible idea" no explanation. nothing. hawho in the WORLD would ever think that limiting human public power figures to time limits would be a good thing
1/18/2012 3:45:59 PM