Are you sick of career politicians in Congress?

Question

I know I am. When everyone complains about the government it almost always boils down to congress, both sides, and I always say if we had representation it would help.

Tired of big money having representation when you do without?

Do something.

http://termlimits.com/

Having the right to vote has not helped, look at dollar bill jefferson, re-elected eight times, maybe LA likes crooks in congress but I do not and if there were term limits I would not have to rely on voters in other states to do what is right.

In the Senate there are:
44 Dems averaging 20.8 years in Congress
55 Reps averaging 16.1 years in Congress

these numbers begin to make it look like career politicians are in control, who have lost touch with you the citizen and are more entrenched in their own careers.

For the Senate, if you were to use two terms or 12 years in Congress as a term limit
25 Dems would need to leave and 25 Reps would need to leave.
Those Dems are averaging 27.1 years in Congress
Those Reps averaging 24.0 years.

80% of Dems in the Senate have been there more than 12 years
58% of Repubs have.

46% of Dems in the House have been there more than 12 years
32% of Repubs have.

Ben Franklin said of congress, "They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People's Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections"

Answer 1

Thank you for that link. Will be an uphill battle getting this through the "long in the tooth" congress, but that is about the only thing that will untimately improve the representation.

Answer 2

I am sick of career politicians. Senate has the most and time after time you see companies giving kick backs to them, ie harry reid. At one time in USA it was seen as a duty and honor to be elected and serve, now it has become just a job for most which gets paid ridiculously way to much money.

Answer 3

You've heard this before, but it bears saying it again and again until it gets through:
We already have term limits.
It's called the voting booth.
Big money is not the problem.
Silent voices are.
If you want representation get yourself and your friends off the couch and do something about it.
A complacent society deserves what it gets: a corporate machinery that corrals them like the consumer-sheep they are.

Answer 4

If you are as tired of the career politicians, vote them out on Nov. 7. Don't vote for ANY of the incumbants. Vote for new people to go in.

Answer 5

Yes, I am, and ESPECIALLY sick of the LIBERAL ones masquerading as responsible people.