Reaction & Commentary
Institution with the new blood that comes along to be able to pass on the traditions of Chambers like the senate or bureaucratic institutions like the three-letter agencies in Washington DC and I understand that view but I reject it one of the most popular ideas of my entire campaign as I traveled this
Country was indeed the idea of term limits both in Congress and the federal bureaucracy I think we have to keep the lifeblood fresh or else that’s where you get the bureaucratic rot and Corruption that separates the elected leaders and even unelected leaders from the people who they’re supposed to represent here’s
The kind of term limit we can effectuate most easily in this country term limits for federal bureaucrats it’s about consistency the US president the Pres the person who leads the executive branch of government cannot work for the executive branch of government as the US president for more than 8 years well if
The US president can’t work for the American people for more than eight years which I think is a good thing actually then neither should any of the federal bureaucrats who are reporting into him either it’s completely inconsistent the reason the people who we elect to run the government aren’t
Really running the government including even the US president in many cases is that that permanent State underneath that elected representative is able to use their entrench M to be able to frustrate the will of the people how do you fix that well the good news is the
President has the power to do it it’s a hiring policy the basic hiring policy is to say for most positions and you could have certain exceptions but but for those few exceptions where continued expertise is needed over more than an 8-year period for most positions the hiring policy of the federal government
Should be we’re going to match the term of a federal bureaucrat to the term of the person who leads that bureaucracy that’s an executive action by the next president of the United States who’s willing to take this up and I do think that that will be a positive development
For our country and for our constitutional republic to restore power to the people who we actually elect to run the government in this case the US president than that Federal bureaucracy that’s the kind of term limit that’s most urgently needed it’s also the kind of term limit that we can effectuate
Without having to go through Congress which is important talk about term limits for congress you have run into a different problem it’s a chicken and egg problem and it goes like this the very people you’re trying to term limit out the congressmen and Senators many of
Whom have been there for decades are the very people who have to vote for those same term limits against their own interest how do you get around that chicken and egg problem I’m a businessman and I do think that we could use more of a business mentality in the
Way things work in Washington DC human beings respond to incentives and sometimes that’s ugly in the result that that has but at least use that in our favor to do the right thing for the country here’s how that would work I think the next US president has an
Opportunity to tell tell people in Congress look we want to implement term limits say three terms for congress two terms for US Senate but the people who vote for it or the Congress that actually passes it will not be subject to that future members will be bound by
It somebody who’s elected into a role after a current Congressman or a congressman who steps down and his dead is replaced it’ll apply to the next generation of congressmen but not the people who are already there I don’t love the fact that that rewards the bad behavior of those who are willing to
Vote unwilling to vote against their interests but sometimes that’s what it takes in order to actually get the job done so that’s the combination of how we need to deliver term limits and we will deliver term limits in this country through both the executive branch and in the legislative branch that’s what it’s
Going to take to revive the lifeblood of our constitutional republic to bring in that new generation of leadership to bring in leaders who view their Public Service as service to the public not to themselves I don’t think that’s too much to ask I know that most Americans
Support it and fact that most Americans support it and it still isn’t the law in some ways reveals what’s exactly wrong with our system itself
