Screwed up Design

America's Founding Fathers made a mistake; most committees do. It happens to the best. Our government design is screwed up! We all buy into the 'checks and balance' of the three-branches of government; executive, legislative and judicial. Where the institutional design jumps the tracks is requiring term limits on only the executive office and that is the result of the twenty-second amendment to the Constitution passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified in 1951.

The sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brings greater attention to the fact that without judicial term limits there is the possibility that senility could impact our lives. People born and raised in the 1940's are required to wrap their diminishing brain-power around issues, which have to be foreign to their thinking. Beside, the very fact that these Justices have a 'life-time' job is a ridiculous concept. It's no different than certifying an 82-year old brain surgeon. Stupid!

Finally, we must admit that 'no term limits' in Congress creates fertile grounds for greed and government corruption. Surely, you have noticed?

I hear politicians using the phrase, " We are going to take back our country." If Americans truly wish to 'take back their country,' they must first 'take it away from politicians!'

When I was teaching and coaching, I found it so damned amusing when politicians would get on some 'kick' about merit-pay accountability for teachers or the tenure protection for teachers. Every coaching position I held required me to put a good product on the floor or I would be fired.