Congressional term limits are a good first step
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Editor,
“We must take our country back!” This lament has been heard during the recent election season ad infinitum. Back from whom? And just when did we lose it? Has it really been taken? Who took it and where did they put it?
My take, and this is just my take on all this, I really believe the American people are not fed up with what they call “big government” but rather a government ruled by big money interests, greed and fear tactics. I really believe that the American people are not fed up with what they call “liberals or conservatives, Republicans or Democrats” in Congress but rather with members of Congress who are beholden to lobbyists, their own selfish interests, and constantly running for re-election from the moment they enter office.
And I am not saying that all those elected to office are this way, but so many are this way that it has affected our entire ability to get done what needs to be done in this great nation of ours. Politics has replaced progress. Politics has replaced ethical leadership. Politics has replaced honesty. Politics has replaced wise legislation.
Politics, according to my Funk and Wagnall's dictionary, is “the science of civil government.” This good word, politics, somehow over the years, the decades, the generations, has taken on a negative connotation in America. It seems to me that what needs to be done, in taking our country back, is to put ethics, honesty, wisdom, unselfishness, and true representative leadership back into politics.
And the first and best step I see in doing so is this: establish term limits of eight years for all those elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and ten years for those elected to the U.S. Senate.
“We the people” do have the power to elect but that seems to be where our power, our dreams, our hopes, our aspirations and our good ideas end. I rest my case. Any comments, corrections, additions?
Bob McClellan
Polson
