Term limits make sense at all political levels

Term limits? Why not? The number of terms the president of the United States may serve is limited, so why not limit the number of terms all other elected officials may serve? Not one objection can be shown to be of any consequence.

At the local level, there are those who serve because no one else wants the position. Term limits would force leadership on someone else and all would be enjoying the benefits.

At the state level, term limits would allow those elected officeholders who are idealists to remain idealist and not be forced to be professional politicians whose every thought and action is to do and say only those things that will enable them to be re-elected to that office. The benefits from this changed attitude would be far-reaching.

At the national level, voters can see where no term limits lead and the vast majority don't like it. The idealists that we elected became professional pirates who plundered us in order to be re-elected and enjoy the benefits of the powerful.

If our elected representatives were looking forward with great anticipation to returning to the farm, the business or the job they left, what a wonderfully different country this would be. To effect such a change, we need to change our attitude from “what can our country to for us,” to “what can we do for our country.” Let's give it a try.

Frederick Steinbron

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