[452] in libertarians
[vimrich@MIT.EDU: Re: Term Limits]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Tue Dec 6 02:41:27 1994
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 02:37:26 -0500
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>The voters do not have the luxury of going with the status quo. They
>must decide on what kinds of programs they want, not who is more
>likely to be in a position to deliver them.
Apparently what happens in Mexico is politicians spend most of
their time currying favor with people in the level above them. Then,
when they run for election for a different office, they use these
contacts as evidence of their clout. Same principle as in the USA: Use
clout to get elected, get clout through previous political service.
How about only letting people hold any elected office once,
and then that's it?
Again, I know Mexico is a different culture, and I still
support term limits. I just don't think they will help THAT much.
>But more dangerous than incompetency is the notion that there CAN be a
>class of "enlightened rulers" to tell us how to live. To be an expert
>politician is to know how to get Proposal A turned in Law A and no
>more. What happens is that people start to think they can be an
>expert at knowing what proposal A should be, i.e. they start to think
>they know better for us than we do. You can't EVER be an expert in
>telling other people how to live. Thus term limits also limits this
Quite right.
-David Martin
