Petition For National Term Limits
We have a federal congress, both House and Senate, who seem totally disconnected from the rest of the nation. They have voted themselves repeated raises, while doing nothing on issues the rest of us believe to be in our national best interest. They refuse to allow insurance companies to be competitive by allowing national competition; i.e., insurance companies cannot do business in all states. They tack onto "homeland security" bills items not even remotely related to "homeland security" just to get the item signed off by the President (no LINE ITEM VETO), and disallow items which are totally related to "homeland security";
"Congress is patting itself on the back for passing the Port Security Act last Saturday. But the day before, a House-Senate conference committee stripped out a provision that would have barred serious felons from working in sensitive dock security jobs. Port security isn't just about checking the contents of cargo containers, it also means checking the background of the 400,000 workers on our docks.
U.S. harbors are filled with workers convicted of serious crimes. Just last year the Justice Department filed a RICO suit charging that the 65,000-member East Coast-based International Longshoremen's Association is a "vehicle for organized crime."
But the House-Senate conference drastically watered down a Senate-passed requirement that aligned the standards for hiring dock workers with those used at airports and nuclear plants. The statute still bans workers who have been convicted of treason, espionage and terror-related offenses—a mere handful at most. But a seven-year time-out period on hiring those who've committed crimes such as murder, bribery, identity fraud and the illegal use of firearms was dropped in the dead of night at the behest of unions fearful that too many of their members could lose their jobs. "
It has become all about retaining power, keeping their cushy jobs, providing themselves with plans they do not allow the rest of us to take part in, and ignoring the original mandate of our constitution which construed the position of government elected representatives to be "citizen servants" who would serve a limited term to return to PRODUCTIVE life in the general population. Instead, it has become an occupation that does not serve the rest of us!
We know that there is no way this body of House and Senate will vote the limits of their own terms. Though it has been successfully mandated in states all over our country, it is time we expanded it to our Congress.
It is time to tell these career despots that we do not want them, and they are not serving us well. We need to start a petition to limit the damage they can do to our country.
You're asking for a lot here. You're asking for career politicians to change the rules and derail their own power and careers. Yes, it should be done, absolutely. I HATE the idea of term limits, but I don't see any other solution.
But you're going to need real statesmen in Congress to get it passed -- and if you had statesmen, you wouldn't need term limits.
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Ogre, what I want to accomplish is to collect enough signatures to put the issue on the federal ballot. As we go to vote for our senators, congressmen, etc., on the same ballot will be a ballot initiative that will give Americans the choice, and take it out of the hands of congress! That's the only way it will get accomplished! They no longer represent US, they only represent themselves! That was not the intention of our founding fathers' document that I firmly believe was Divinely Inspired!
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