Each to his own I guess but, I could not disagree with you more though. Term limits disallow the very thing you asserted concerning incumbents & corruption…
But not by directly addressing the corruption. And because it does not address the corruption directly, it ends up forcing the removal of a good representative if we ever manage to get one in office. Why do that when we don't have to, if we address the corruption, directly?
They go hand in hand. New blood means new ideas and less chance for corruption to take strong roots as we see today.
There is no reason to automatically assume the newly elected politician is any less susceptible to the same bribery and corruption that the old one was susceptible to. The problem is the bribery and corruption, not the longevity of the politician.
How you can say the lack of a budget and out of control borrowing/spending is not a major issue is just absurd
No it's not. Obama has cut our national debt nearly in half in the last 7 years. So what? Nothing's changed. Our economy is still barely limping along, and what growth it does manage to achieve goes directly to the wealthiest .01% of the population, where it has no effect on the rest of us, at all. I think your ears are just ringing from the constant republican mantra about over-spending, which is truly hypocritical since it's always the "fiscally conservative" republicans that keep spending us into such enormous debt. While it's the democrats that they are forever blaming it on that keep having to cut back to bring it into check.