defense bill, earmarks included

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Originally Posted by Danzig

politicians that aren't beholden to anyone, won't allow their votes to be tainted. can't run more than once or twice and they won't have to worry about re-election campaigns.

and how do they get elected in the first place?

where it's implemented, the unintended consequence of term limits has been to strengthen the hand of lobbyists who, by default, are the only guys and gals that know what's going on when each new class of rookies appear. they are the institutional memory that each short termer has to lean on. who is state representative joe yokel going to hire as his staff for his 4-6 years? even if he doesn't hire them, who does he talk to for expertise on the myriad of obscure issues he has to vote on that he has no expertise on?

if you want corporate interests to rule, you definitely should support term limits. those interests can afford to spoon feed the doofus newbie legislator for his 4-8 years and by the time the sap has figured out what's going on, he's term limited out.

i'll take the bad that comes with professional politicians. it's not a perfect system but at least you occasionally get the good one's along with the bad.

if you want to eliminate politicians groveling for campaign funds from people that have an interest in legislation they vote on support public financing, not term limits.