Term Limits, to do or not to do, that is the question.

I have been discussing Term Limits on an email list I belong to and there are two sides to this question....as there always are..... But I think it all boils down to what our opinion of "mankind" in general is.

The Progressive (modern day Liberal) believes that man is capable of perfection and only needs education to realize his perfection. But the Conservative realizes that man is far from perfect and has many incurable faults that education wont fix.

So the Progressive/Liberal thinks that Term Limits will only hold back a "perfect politician" from achieving his best. But the Conservative knows that all men are imperfect so we must put bounds on their activities. The founders of our nation, the guys that wrote our Constitution, were Conservatives so they wrote it with "meets and bounds" as George Washington, a surveyor, might have said, or as we often hear "checks and balances".

The Constitution is constantly putting limits on man because he is imperfect. But they didn't plan on career politicians. They thought that politicians wouldn't be paid enough to make it a career!!

So we need Term Limits because man is not perfect nor can he be made to be perfect.

Jim Isbell
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