Originally Posted by
full of luv
What we need is strict term limits at every office to help deinfluence the lobbyist power to get people re-elected over and over and then a periodic top down justification of every position in govt wouldn’t hurt either. Business reevaluate positions all the time but govt NEVER gets smaller just finds ways to justify more people despite technology improvements and increased productivity in the civilian side of the world.
Term limits ebb and flow in and out of the political discourse and once again its a topic that's trending. While I'm not adamantly against it, I really don't see it as very much of a solution.
Even if the same interests couldn't allocate funding and lobbying to re-elect someone, it could and still would do the exact same thing to elect someone else. And does anyone think a lifer like Ted Kennedy (one of the poster children for the concept; there's many others on all sides) would simply go away politically after a term or two? Nah, they'd just recycle into some other office or role or lobbyist while someone functionally identical gets elevated to the spotlight of power that corrupts just the same.
Its a discussion we should have, and I'm not against the concept, but we need to realize that if implemented, it will change surprisingly little.
The real solution would be to actually enforce the 9th and 10th amendments and limit federal power to specifically what is enumerated. Aviation falls squarely within that realm but a great deal of things currently done do not. Until and unless people on all sides of the political spectrum realize that, it won't matter how many years the same types of people stay in their respective offices.