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A compassionate address to welfare reform (i.e., a chicken in every pot.)
• Virtue of all sorts.
So, thanks again, my constitu-1 ency, for your support. Eat your hearts out, you who neglected my candidacy! I’ll still be around in ‘96, unless I’m caught by the term limit set for me by Higher Authority.
LEE BIRD
Washington
No Term
Limits
To the Editor:
H.L. Mencken wrote: “There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible and wrong.” Such a solution is term limits for members of Congress; the latest pusher of this snake oil is Newt Gingrich.
It is certainly a real problem that Congress is loaded with members who are mainly skilled at getting elected, and at raising large sums of money to get re-elected, but there are also plenty of good members. The proper solution for this problem is real campaign reform to correct the present system that heavily favors incumbents over challengers. The voters could then more easily throw the bums out and re-elect the good ones. The last two elections have shown that even with this bias, it is possible to defeat “powerful” incumbents who have disappointed their constituents. Reform would make it easier.
There are at least two good arguments against term limits. First, it is just not right for any group of voters, however large, to tell another group whom they can choose to represent them. I don’t want the voters
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