I have often wondered if we should amend the Constitution to require intelligence tests for elected and appointed personnel sucking off the taxpayers’ teat. I believe it would also be productive to institute term limits for ALL elected officials and outlaw government employees from belonging to unions. I am never politically selective when it comes to this, as public officials’ corruption and ineptitude is equally present no matter the person’s political views or party.
Here is one example but it is hardly unique, just one of the funnier ones! Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Georgia, has a history of making wild statements ranging from comparing Jewish Israeli settlers to “termites” to claiming Guam will “capsize.” In 2010, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, with a straight face, he expressed concern that the U.S. territory of Guam could “tip over and capsize” due to a planned military buildup. He stated, “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”
I have read the writings of the founders of this country and when doing so it is clear that they not only didn’t want career politicians, they considered it a threat to the republic they were forming.
Rick Barker
Valencia
