#5 ORDINARY AMERICANS

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With the enactment of Congressional Term Limits (CTL), it is very likely that many more ‘ordinary Americans’ will be entering public office. By ‘ordinary Americans’, I mean people who would are currently earning a living in the mainstream of commercial and industrial life, who decide to run for public office because they believe they would like to affect public policy on some issue or issues.

I believe that, on the whole, and in the long run, ordinary Americans who are willing to serve as legislators for a brief period are more likely to be good legislators than career politicians who have served in government for many years.

Why do I say this ? Well, because 'ordinary Americans' are more likely to do things that are ‘the right thing to do’, rather than ‘going with the flow’, trading favors, and focussing on their reelectability. Remember, we are talking about term limitted people who, by definition, are not career politicians.

True, he/she (the ordinary American) might not have as much experience in the ‘wheeling and dealing’ that is so so much a part of the give-and-take of politics, but that is precisely the point. This country has grown so successfully because a free people with enormous commonsense, creativity, and drive, did not need any special ‘experience’ to make the country great.

Thus, it should be clear that no special experience is necessary to become an effective legislator. Whether you are a career politician or not, the existing staff and ever present bureaucracy serve to provide the nuts and bolts and tools of government. When you are elected, it is your job to use your imagination, integrity, and commonsense to see that government serves the people well.

I’m Nelson Lee Walker, and I believe that our country needs Congressional Term Limits.

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