TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE

In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. Psalm 31:1

Term limits for Congress, too

Having voted in every election since 1960, I would like to make the following observations.

Over the past half-century, both parties have taken positions that leave little room for compromise. Too many of these congressmen and senators have become lifetime career politicians. Most have become zealots for their party’s extremes and ideologies. Both use stringent litmus tests that further exacerbate their rigid positions. The vast majority have no understanding of what the average citizen faces in their working lifetimes.

A few of our elected officials cannot be bought, influenced or scared off, but they are few and far between. Political campaigns border on lies, half-truths, innuendos, guilt by association, etc. If repeated often enough in the media, it becomes accepted as fact. Rather than

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Email letters to letters@commercial appeal.com; mail Letters to the Editor, The Commercial Appeal, 495 Union, Memphis, TN 38103; or click on the “Submit Letter” link on the Opinion page atcommercialappeal.com. reporting the facts, the media tend to rely on one-liners, catchphrases and dubious presumptions to lead their audience with a predetermined biased outcome.

I would recommend the following. We have a two-term limit on being president (eight years). Why not a 12-year limit for both senators (two terms) and congressmen (six terms). With this, we could get rid of the lifetime professional career politicians who now dominate their respective parties and are responsible for our nation’s gridlock.

Walter C. Krug Jr., Germantown