The elections are coming up in November and I have a few words to say about TERM LIMITS. We here in Michigan, as voters in other states also did, voted to term limit our state politicians – what a mistake that was!
I am trying to remember the reasons we did that and I cannot remember. I think many voters were tired of career politicians or did not trust them or wanted regular Joes to have a chance at state office. Whatever the reasons, things got worst.
We still have career politicians because, I am convinced, it is a special kind of breed that is drawn to political office – any political office. What is happening is that once a politician is term limited, he runs for a different office and keeps doing this until he or she retires? So what you get is a politician that has no idea what he is doing since he never really learns the job before he has to move on – dumb?
So the real power in state government is in the staff members that the politician relies on to tell him what to do.
I say repeal the stupid law. Admit it was a mistake and go back to the old ways; we can always vote them out if we don’t like them.
Some are suggesting a part-time legislature. Here the politician would have to hold down a regular job and play legislator part-time. I am not sure that would really work since then the politician would do both jobs half-assed.
Janusz
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