all elected officials in the U.S. should be allowed only ONE six year term in office. No worries or distractions about being re-elected and long enough to make a difference.

What say you?

Good idea. Should be done here as well

I am all for that idea.

Yeah, but WITHOUT retirement after 6 years.

I say two terms, like a POTUS, but term limits for certain. Let them keep retirement. They don't collect until after 62 UNLESS they have served 20 years.

Two terms defeats the reasoning behind the idea. The drive to get re-elected is a MAJOR distraction from doing the job they were elected to do.

No elected officials should be eligible for retirement benefits. That would help against people becoming career politicians. It would discourage jumping from office to office.

Let them go out and earn a living outside of politics before and after their term.

I do not understand. What idea does it defeat? Since Washington, two terms has been the standard limit for Presidents, with the exclusion of FDR, who had three.

They already have to do that if they have not reached the age of 62 to collect.

Before their term, they also would have had to earn a living somehow.

It defeats the idea of them focusing solely on their job unless you believe part of their job is finagling ways to get re-elected.

The system was put in place 240 years ago. I'm thinking it's time we tweak it a bit.

Should have term limits on supreme court also.

Not to me. I am not in Congress and I focus on keeping my job too, by doing it well. Elected officials are human, like us, and I do not see an issue with them wanting to hang on to their positions, especially in a position they enjoy having and are able to make change in.

Elected officials are just that...elected.
Its not supposed to be lifelong position.
Its meant to be surpassed by the one who can do what they are elected to do in the best way according to the people who elect at the time the elections are being made.

Career politicians is a sign of lazy people failing to utilize the best person for the job at the term limits. Incumbents may not be the right person for the job at the time the term limit expires.

Political careers (being in the political trade) might be okay but elected office should be one and done. You run but don't get elected, that's it, you can't run for that office again, ever.
You do get elected, you do your term and you're done, that's it.
If you don't do what you were elected to do, you get put out, face charges of fraud and possible jail time.

The problem is they're appointed not elected, and it could wreak havoc with the checks and balances between the executive and judicial branches of the government if one President gets to appoint all the members of the court.

You don't think it's a problem if a politician (who is elected to serve his or her constituency) essentially ignores them or gives them a less than stellar effort because the focus is on being re-elected? I guess I'll mark you down for a no thanks I think the system is working fine. Got it!

the only thing i see maybe wrong here is a totally clean and new house and senate every 6 years. that might create a repetitive slow down at the beginning of every election cycle as everyone learns how it all works.

i think you would need to concoct some sort of stagger to the election of membership to each house.

am i for hard and fast term limits yes

I'm all for this.
Provided, it applies retroactively for all
of the douche nuggets who have already
spent way more than six years in ANY
elected office.

With the addendum, that any elected official
be publicly hanged, should they leave office
with more wealth than they entered with.

That's an excellent thought on all levels not just Federal. The only problem is the implementation. Who goes and who stays initially? Once the stagger cycles are started it should be okay.

I agree with all of it except the hanging. Is old Sparky still being used in Florida?