Your Opinion: Curbs on spending, term limits needed

Dear Editor:

What is happening in our nation's capital is like a bad dream. Unlike a dream it does not go away next morning.

Those who were sent there to represent the people of their state too often forget that and end up being a yes vote for more spending. In far too many cases this costs millions for programs that benefit a minuscule portion of the citizens they are supposed to represent.

Many of those yes votes are influenced by lobbyists or to get the vote of their cohorts for a promise to vote for their one way to nowhere bridge.

All of this with millions of dollars of borrowed money from countries that are not our friends.

This wild spending is for things we do not need and or can wait until we can afford them or new programs that in too many cases we do not need and are duplicates of what we already have.

It does not take a genius to understand that you cannot spend more than they take in year after year without facing the possibility of bankruptcy.

Every individual or business owner understands this. The founders of our great country did not intend for a representative or senator to make a career out of representing the citizens of their state.

If there ever was a time for term limits for the Congress of the United States it is now. Until this happens there will not be the U-turn on the road to bankruptcy the country is on now.

There should be a three-term limit for the House of Representatives and a two-term limit for the Senate and no one who has served in either house of the Congress once cannot serve in that house again.