From the Hattiesburg American

In recent opinions, Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Upchurch are both right. We need to replace our current politicians who toe the party lines to the detriment of us all.

But unless we demand term limits for elected office, we will be right back here a few years down the road facing the same problem.

I would like to submit that the problems our country faces will never be resolved when our leaders from day one are far more concerned about being re-elected than doing anything we sent them there to do. That’s our fault for not demanding that they leave after two terms.

We make that demand of our presidents but not our Congress who controls the purse strings of the nation. We have 535 people in Congress with unlimited credit cards who are answerable to no one!

The Founding Fathers never intended for professional politicians to run our country and dictate our choices to us. We must take back our country from the career politicians who are spending us into a black hole.

In recent opinions, Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Upchurch are both right. We need to replace our current politicians who toe the party lines to the detriment of us all.

But unless we demand term limits for elected office, we will be right back here a few years down the road facing the same problem.

I would like to submit that the problems our country faces will never be resolved when our leaders from day one are far more concerned about being re-elected than doing anything we sent them there to do. That’s our fault for not demanding that they leave after two terms.

We make that demand of our presidents but not our Congress who controls the purse strings of the nation. We have 535 people in Congress with unlimited credit cards who are answerable to no one!

The Founding Fathers never intended for professional politicians to run our country and dictate our choices to us. We must take back our country from the career politicians who are spending us into a black hole.
Why don’t we do just that next year? Vote against every incumbent who has severed two or more terms and insist on a constitutional amendment to establish a limit of two terms for each office.

With term limits we’ll get the government of the people, by the people, and for the people that the Founding Fathers envisioned and our nation desperately needs.

Donald Bradford

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