Election to Congress or the Senate was never intended to be lifetime appointments.

New thoughts and ideas were meant to flow through government, which is supposed to be “of the people, by the people, for the people.” With unlimited terms of election we see now that it causes gridlock, strife and barriers to progress that has led to the total uncooperative spirit that we have seen these past four years in Washington. Term limits infuses new blood and new ideas.

If a president is limited to two terms, that’s eight years, then the Congress and the Senate should have term limits too. A congressman should only have three terms, that’s six years, and a senator should only have two terms, that’s 12 years. Once their terms are up new people come in and new ideas flow. With term limits imposed, congressmen and senators will have to work cooperatively to reflect the will of the people instead of personal agendas like Washington currently feels that they deserve to have.

What we have now in Washington is gridlock with barriers to progress. Who gave Congress and the Senate the power to make more money than the average U.S. citizen? Who gave them the power to have world-class health care at the taxpayers’ expense? Who gave them the power to have lifetime pensions?

I did not give them that power, did you? If term limits for Congress and Senate were enacted, then there would no pensions for them to take and they should pay for their own health care like every oher U.S. citizen does!

By cutting their health care at our expense and cutting their lifetime pensions that they were not supposed to have in the first place, we’d be closer to a balanced budget and totally end gridlock!

PHILLIP PETROS

Lowell