How do we get elected officials to do their job without worrying about how it will affect future elections?

Question

There are several major issues currently affecting the American people, yet the major parties seem more worried about who will get elected. How do we get them to do their job.

Answer 1

Simple. Fire them and elect new blood!

Answer 2

Only one way to do it; term limits. Limit the # of times a person can run for office, as with the Presidency. No one person should be allowed to go into politics with an idea of retiring from Public office! This must be done in all states with no exceptions. We now have some tottering old men serving in the Senate & Congress, we need to have fresh blood a lot more often! We need to have people who are working with the people at home & not setting in Washington for generations!

Answer 3

This is what talk radio has been warning you all about, but no one seemed to listen. In the words of the Reverend "The chickens have come home to roost." We are in a major recession and it will affect everyone. I am an appraiser, when banks don't give money, I dont work, my wife is a school teacher with a masters making 40K a year, she may have to quit something she loves and go back to the corporate world. Tighten the belt now, stuff the mattress with money and hang on it is going to be a bumpy ride. I hope you weather the storm.

Answer 4

Limit the length of terms and number of terms. Also, I think politicians should have to defend their jobs not just from elections but from the decent politicians in their party, haha, duh, whatever huh. I mean, they should have to prove to someone some sort of productivity while they were in office. If they can't prove anything they should not be allowed to be considered for another term. Thats what I think. And I think there should be a requirement for attendance like reality has for the rest of the world. If you can't show up to work at least 320 days in a year or something like that, you're fired! And Donald Trump should get to fire each one also, that would be fun. On Fox! Like a public ousting. Man, this sounds like fun.

Answer 5

My answer would be to quit paying them .....hell if we don't do our job we get fired and no pay why should they be any different most of em are out to lunch or on vacation anyway and never available to do the business of the U.S. Citizens anyway. And they will just give themselves a pay raise again each year. Hell let's fire all of them they are all crooked and in some Lawyers Pocket of Special Interest Group.

Answer 6

Term limits. That's the nature of the beast so there is no other solution.

Answer 7

allow them to only serve one term