Term Limits In Congress

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The downfall of this country stems from career politics. Instead of worrying about doing what is best for the country and its citizens, career politicians instead concern themselves with getting re-elected. Instead of taking a stand on issues, career politicians attempt to twist an issue in order make themselves look good. While all these politicians go about securing their seat in congress, they tend to forget about the ones who elected them there in the first place. If only there was a way to stop this dim behavior.
The founding fathers themselves would have a stroke if they saw how we ran the government today, especially in the event that they saw the career politicians that rule our government. Our founding fathers truly understood that …show more content…

Two beautiful little words can fix the entire situation. As of now a term is two years for the house and six years for the senate. Limiting how many of these terms that congress members are allowed to partake in will allow for the dismantling of career politics. Thus, congress members will now no longer have the need to focus on pointless issues that will get them re-elected and instead focus on more pressing matters that they actually care about. As a result maybe our congress will actually get some work done instead of sitting on their tails like they have been …show more content…

Many nay sayers argue that especially with today’s difficult and complex issues, it takes time in order to gain the proper knowledge necessary to have an educated say on the matter. It is for this reason that I do not believe that congress should have short term limits. For example give congress members two or three terms. For the House of Representatives that would be about four to six years in office, and then for the senate that would give them twelve to eighteen years in office. If you cannot get your job done in that amount of time then the problem does not fall on inexperience, it falls on poor congress members. And with term limits the congress members who lack in their ability to perform their duties will be weeded out in no time.
With this a counterargument there is always the argument that states that the “good” congress members would be pushed out as well. And yes this is true; however, this transition is a positive one because of the fact that it allows the congress to remain updated with the times. This allows old, bigoted, and prejudice ideals to not remain in congress and to be replaced by fresh new ideas. With these new ideas maybe we would be able to get something positive done, for example maybe we would be able to work towards fixing our economic crisis. However this cannot happen without the transition, without the term limits.

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