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12-08-2009, 07:33 PM
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 "Hey we're cutting your pension AND dropping health care coverage after you leave office. Oh and while we're at it your pay is going to be cut by 50%. Ya see, only people who make s.hit pay and have s.hit benefits are honest in this country. I read that on a forum called derby trail." 
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12-09-2009, 07:44 AM
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I just think greed and the lust for re-election keeps them a tiny bit accountable to their constituents. If there isn't a massive turnover in 2010 especially in districts where the representatives ignore the people who put them in office, I will rethink that opinion.
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"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."...William S. Burroughs
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12-09-2009, 07:50 AM
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If the good people of S.F. and Guam feel they are being represented fairly by Pelosi they should have the right to keep voting her in. Term limits in the Legislative branch just seem like something meant to please people who can't stand someone else's Representative. Did I just defend Pelosi?
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"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."...William S. Burroughs
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12-09-2009, 08:21 AM
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I think if the people/constituents want to keep re-electing someone, they should have the opportunity. Regardless of the supposed bad apples that are usually front and center, there are a lot of good people trying to do good things and I have no problem with them being re-elected as many times as long as they deserve it.
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"but there's just no point in trying to predict when the narcissits finally figure out they aren't living in the most important time ever." hi im god quote
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#5
12-09-2009, 11:12 AM
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the problem isn't term limits. it's gerrymandering.
districts are drawn to maximize safety for the largest number of house members whose party controls the state legislature following the census every 10 years. if dems are in control they draw as many safe democratic districts as possible. what's left over are safe republican districts because most of the dems have been jammed into other districts. the same thing happens when republicans control the process. the solution to this problem isn't term limits. it's taking the power to draw districts away from politicians. that will never happen though because voters are laughably stupid. they always fall for the line that having an appointed panel take on this job is anti-democratic. they want to believe that since "their" elected legislature does it, they actually have some input. suckers. politicians drawing district boundries = uncompetetive districts. competetive districts = responsive elected officials. i wonder why everyone thinks their elected officials are unresponsive?
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