In This Journal....A Case For Term Limits ~ Greedy Teachers, Cowardly Wisconsin Dem's and Unethical Doctors ~ Say Goodbye To Sarah and Hello To Christie!
The Two Most Powerful Words In Government...TERM LIMITS!
I can’t remember the last time I wrote a Journal that might have a chance of crossing party lines. But, whether you are a Republican, or one of the other folks, the one common denominator we share is that we all hate corruption in government, be it local, state, or national. Beyond that I think we all spurn someone in public office getting rich from that office by virtue of our taxes. True?
I want to make a case for term limits and here it is:
Those gentle and wise men known as the framers of the Constitution of the United States of America, in their wisdom, set the term of office for members of the Senate, House of Representatives and the President. Nice Work.
In Section 2 of the Constitution, the President was granted a term of four years and only after the 22nd Amendment was the number of terms mercifully limited to two. The same section gives the upper house, known as the Senate, a six year term and the lower house, called the Congress a term of two years. The Constitution is often hailed as a marvel of conciseness and of simplicity.
But our Constitution was written in the 18th century, and many of the ideas and concepts seem odd to us today, if not completely inapplicable. It might be said that we lived in a kinder and gentler time back then. We have evolved, remember false teeth were made of wood then too.
These were bright men and I can’t help but imagine that they never, in their wildest imagination would have figured that public office would have turned into a “cottage industry”. They stopped short it seems in setting the number of terms a person could serve. And, therein lies the drawback.
Unfortunately, the Framers left the actual limit on terms out of the Constitution. But then, they did not think limits would be necessary, for they did not foresee that politics would become a career for so many people. Public office is very popular in the United States it seems with over 650,000 officeholders at all levels of government today.
We actually have an industry, albeit a distrusted one, that runs our government and that industry is called career politics. I assume, that they assumed, that good men would leave their farms and businesses, go to the capitols, serve a term of office-for the good of the country-then go home. Serve, by the way, at great personal expense in terms not only of money but family time. That might be where the pioneer typing drill sergeant, Charles E. Weller, came up with his famous typing training line:
In Section 2 of the Constitution, the President was granted a term of four years and only after the 22nd Amendment was the number of terms mercifully limited to two. The same section gives the upper house, known as the Senate, a six year term and the lower house, called the Congress a term of two years. The Constitution is often hailed as a marvel of conciseness and of simplicity.
But our Constitution was written in the 18th century, and many of the ideas and concepts seem odd to us today, if not completely inapplicable. It might be said that we lived in a kinder and gentler time back then. We have evolved, remember false teeth were made of wood then too.
These were bright men and I can’t help but imagine that they never, in their wildest imagination would have figured that public office would have turned into a “cottage industry”. They stopped short it seems in setting the number of terms a person could serve. And, therein lies the drawback.
Unfortunately, the Framers left the actual limit on terms out of the Constitution. But then, they did not think limits would be necessary, for they did not foresee that politics would become a career for so many people. Public office is very popular in the United States it seems with over 650,000 officeholders at all levels of government today.
We actually have an industry, albeit a distrusted one, that runs our government and that industry is called career politics. I assume, that they assumed, that good men would leave their farms and businesses, go to the capitols, serve a term of office-for the good of the country-then go home. Serve, by the way, at great personal expense in terms not only of money but family time. That might be where the pioneer typing drill sergeant, Charles E. Weller, came up with his famous typing training line:
| "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." |
With any and every political cause there are always those for and those against and they both have their rationale. Those that are against term limits almost always use the same tired reasoning and it always starts with the word experience and those in favor of term limits counter with that time-honored expression…
| Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” |
Here in The United States of America, we call that ...the State of Illinois theory.
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The Governor Should Fire The Teachers After One Warning...Then The Voter Should Fire The Cowardly Legislators That Are Hiding!
In probably the single greatest show of union backed greed I have ever witnessed is the teacher's strike in Wisconsin. The Governor of Wisconsin is just asking the teachers to pay a fraction of their own health insurance and contribute (God Forbid) to their own retirement, and they are protesting in mass and have the unmitigated disgusting gall to say, “It’s about the children". I say… IT’S ABOUT GREED!
The average state worker in Wisconsin’s benefit package includes health care and retirement and is worth almost $23,000.00 a year. THEY PAY NOT ONE PENNEY FOR THERE HELTH CARE OR RETIREMENT. How much of your health insurance premiums do you pay? Do you contribute to you retirement?
Fox News reports that teachers' total compensation in Wisconsin amounts to an average of $89,500 salary and benefits. The average non-public sector worker in America makes $61,000 a year in salary and benefits. Based on what we have learned about the reading skills of 8th graders in Wisconsin they are profoundly over paid too!
I cannot actually say what is more disgusting, their strike or BARACK OBAMA's shameless public pandering to their cause.
Fox News reports that teachers' total compensation in Wisconsin amounts to an average of $89,500 salary and benefits. The average non-public sector worker in America makes $61,000 a year in salary and benefits. Based on what we have learned about the reading skills of 8th graders in Wisconsin they are profoundly over paid too!
I cannot actually say what is more disgusting, their strike or BARACK OBAMA's shameless public pandering to their cause.
You realize, don’t you, that it was a lot of teacher union money that got him elected. The President of the United States, and I have a difficult time using that phrase and the name BARACK OBAMA in the same paragraph, has no right and no business interfering or even offering his opinion in a
strictly state matter.To be certain the cowardly Democrats that are in hiding are not hiding from the voters, they are hiding from the vote. They are hiding like cowards because if they vote they will insult their union contribution base. My best advice to Governor Walker: Think like Ronald Reagan and his Air Traffic Controllers and fire them all. Then hire all the teachers that are on the waiting list for job in Wisconsin. Next, do not send paychecks to the cowards who are hiding rather than vote. Finally sick, no pun intended, the AMA on the doctors who are writing the phony sick notes. Those doctors are not only breaking the law but also violating their oath.
What Happened To Sarah? I Think I Know...
After careful observation and research I am ready to declare Sarah Palin ineligible to be considered a viable candidate for P.O.T.U.S. in 2012 or even 2016. Here is my reasoning...
Like Rush Limbaugh, she MAKES TOO MUCH MONEY now to even consider the run. Think about it. Palin is on her second book, a has-to-be a best seller. She is adept at keeping her name and image in front of the cameras and on both media’s, the right and the left. She had her own cable television series, charges some serious money for her appearances.
By some accounts, this is a one-woman $15 million dollar a year machine. I'm happy for the Governor.
But, who in their right mind would want to give that up? And, my opinion is this. I can’t get seriously behind any candidate that has had a reality TV show…Sorry, it lacks creditability.
Moving on, here are my names to watch. I like these men, in this order, and I will be watching them for 2012 and 2016. After that, I plan to leave it up to somebody else to prognosticate.
By some accounts, this is a one-woman $15 million dollar a year machine. I'm happy for the Governor.
But, who in their right mind would want to give that up? And, my opinion is this. I can’t get seriously behind any candidate that has had a reality TV show…Sorry, it lacks creditability.Moving on, here are my names to watch. I like these men, in this order, and I will be watching them for 2012 and 2016. After that, I plan to leave it up to somebody else to prognosticate.
| Governor Chris Christie ~ Governor Mike Huckabee Governor Haley Barbour ~ Governor Jeb Bush ~ Governor Tim Pawlenty |
Do I like governors? I guess I do like them better than any Senatorial candidate usually because they generally get the experience of running a wide spectrum of government services. So I am out, out with my choices, and anyone of them would be jake with me but if the election were to be today, I would vote for Chris Christie and not think twice. I like everything I know and read about his style of leadership. He is a plain speaker and pulls no punches. My gut feeling he will be one of the next POTUS's.
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