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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
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- Subject: Re: Citizens against Government Waste
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.004703.2518@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 00:47:03 GMT
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- In article <BxGw6D.64x@NeoSoft.com> hari@NeoSoft.com (Doug Andersen) writes:
- >curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austi
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- >> They have more power the longer they've been there. It's not supposed
- >> to be that way. Every congressman should have an equal vote. Now
- >> they're not equal. And term limits will fix that and by fixing that
- >> will reduce pork, or at the VERY LEAST
- >> shift it around so it gets spread out more equally.
-
- >No matter how you stack it, some Congresspeople will be more powerful than
- >others.
-
- Perhaps but term limits would make them only twice as powerful, instead
- of 10 times more powerful as they are now.
-
- >Powerful Congressmen aren't powerful simply because they've been
- >there a long time, they're powerful because Congress uses a seniority
- >system. Even if you got rid of that (and the seniority system has lost
-
- What is a seniority system if not a system based on length of service?
- Length of service would be much more equal and fairly distributed under
- Term Limits. I guess I must not know the definition of "Seniority".
- Enlighten me.
-
- >a lot of power in the past 20 yeras) you'll still have people in charge of
- >committees and majority and minority leaders.
-
- Right, but not the same guy in charge of the same committee for 40 YEARS!
- Only 12 years at most (assumming 12 year limits.)
-
- >> Those are problems too. Big problems. In fact they are bigger problems
- >> than pork is, I agree. But getting rid of pork is big enough to be
- >> worth doing.
-
- >It's worth doing, but it's worth doing right. The right way to get rid
- >of it is to expose it. Term limits are fundamentally anti-democratic
- >and are largely a device for Republicans to get rid of Democrats.
-
- But it's ok to limit the (usually Republican,) President's terms
- right? Isn't that a little hypocritical?
-
- It all depends on which party fields the best and brightest new
- candidates doesn't it? If the Democrats can do that then more power to
- them, (literally.)
-
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