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Terms limits are magic. I first heard Ken Langone talk about it so vehemently and the more I looked into it the more I realized that it would be a good thing. H

Terms limits are magic. I first heard Ken Langone talk about it so vehemently and the more I looked into it the more I realized that it would be a good thing. Having a larger pool of public officials to choose from over time allows for experimentation to see what(read who) works and what doesn't. It's going to be an interesting 4 years ahead. May be even 8.

dougmany 10y ago
>see what(read who) works and what doesn't. And then throw both out and start again.
- thatswrong0 10y ago
  Congress has an incredibly low approval rating. I can't imagine we could do much to make it worse.. why not try experimenting in order to make it better?
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    Congress has a low approval rating because people mkstly disapprove of the choices made by people electing the 532 members that they don't get to vote. Individual members in their own district (for the House) or state (for the Senate) tend to have very good approval ratings. The one way you could make Congress worse is to make it so that people didn't get the members they want in the elections they do vote in because their choices are even more restricted than they are now, while still hating the choices everyone else makes. Term limits for Congress would be one way of achieving that.
- _andromeda_ 10y ago
  I'm not a big fan of some of the positions that Bill gates has taken on political issues lately(such as increased taxes) but there's something he said about why America beat Japan in the computing industry that I can draw parallels on. Apparently, Japan's take was that there was only one way to pursue the PC industry. One strategy, one platform. America on the other hand allowed for a multi-pronged approach trying out different hardware and software combinations to see what works and letting the market determine the final outcome. America won, Japan lost. If we must have public officials (and I don't think we should have quite as many but that's a topic for another day), then it would be better to have a way to quickly isolate the ones who don't deliver and remove them for good before more damage is done. If something they did works, we can pick other officials who promise to build on what the previous officials had done.
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dougmany 10y ago

>see what(read who) works and what doesn't. And then throw both out and start again.

thatswrong0 10y ago
Congress has an incredibly low approval rating. I can't imagine we could do much to make it worse.. why not try experimenting in order to make it better?
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  Congress has a low approval rating because people mkstly disapprove of the choices made by people electing the 532 members that they don't get to vote. Individual members in their own district (for the House) or state (for the Senate) tend to have very good approval ratings. The one way you could make Congress worse is to make it so that people didn't get the members they want in the elections they do vote in because their choices are even more restricted than they are now, while still hating the choices everyone else makes. Term limits for Congress would be one way of achieving that.
_andromeda_ 10y ago
I'm not a big fan of some of the positions that Bill gates has taken on political issues lately(such as increased taxes) but there's something he said about why America beat Japan in the computing industry that I can draw parallels on. Apparently, Japan's take was that there was only one way to pursue the PC industry. One strategy, one platform. America on the other hand allowed for a multi-pronged approach trying out different hardware and software combinations to see what works and letting the market determine the final outcome. America won, Japan lost. If we must have public officials (and I don't think we should have quite as many but that's a topic for another day), then it would be better to have a way to quickly isolate the ones who don't deliver and remove them for good before more damage is done. If something they did works, we can pick other officials who promise to build on what the previous officials had done.

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