A four year presidential term seems to be comprised of 3 years of presidential duties and 1 year of campaigning to keep your job. Should presidents terms be fixed so they can focus on their job 100% of the term?
Ayuh,... Why just Presidents,..?? limit All of 'em to a single term, then give 'em the boot, Without retirement benefits...
I'd like to see one 6 year term for POTUS, two 6 year terms for Senate, and six 2 year terms as Representative, and no retirement benefits.
But then they would just campaign on the third year instead of the fourth. Unless you mean just have them have one 3 year term and thats it. If that was the case then I would not be for it. If they were limited to one term I would like to see a six year term. That would give them time to achieve their goals and keep the disruption of changing leadership down.
You say that and I admit it is an easy concept to get behind, but I ask you this. How sucessful do you think a buisness would be if every 4 years they hired a whole new inexperianced leadership staff? Or a military unit that hired a whole new set of officers with no experiance? Term limits of a low number of years would do that and make sure that we are always led by inexperianced people with no one they can turn to for help except the beuracrats. What I fear would happen would be the life long beuracrats would be the ones that gain the power. Those guys in little offices all around Washington that do all the paper pushing. They would be the only constant so they would be the ones that truely run things and without being elected. Who else but them would know whats going on? Just when a new Senater or Congressman finally figures out how to find and do everything he or she would be out and a new one would come in and need to figure everything out agian. So I think we should be very careful what we wish for here and decide if the termoil and potintial for abuse is worth short term limits.
How successful do you think a business would be if every third year the leadership staff dropped 50% of their productivity to focus on personal issues?
Better then having them learn everything all over agian. But I am thinking more of Congress and the Senate. One six year term for pres would be ok to me. But I am not convinced it is a benefit to us for Congress or at least not one term. Perhaps three for Seneate and six for Congress. We should be able to balance experiance and fresh ideas.
I agree with Senate and Representative term limits, but I think the current system for President is good. I wouldn't want 6 yrs of a lame duck president.
However, with all of the Congress being relatively inexperienced, most of the disadvantages of new Congressmen would disappear. Part of the problem is that the Washington culture is so entrenched that it takes years to learn to navigate it. I do think a two-three term limit for Senators and a six term limit for Congressmen would be viable.
