presonorek
Gold Member
Would you support a constitutional amendment that required a presidential candidate to have at least four years service as a governor of one of the 50 states?
This would weed out a lot of hyperbole and mass hysteria. The debates could be based on accomplishments, failed policies, and successful policies. This would also be a win for fiscal conservatives since states don’t have unlimited access to debt like the federal government does. Most states even have a balanced budget amendment. These habits wouldn’t prevent runaway spending or deficit spending but would gives us an executive that has inclinations to make sound financial decisions that they were discipled in to practicing as a governor especially in those states with balanced budget requirements. Bill Clinton campaigned that he had a balanced budget every year he was governor of Arkansas. That was nothing to brag about because Arkansas law required a balanced budget. However Clinton will go down in history as the most fiscally conservative president since Calvin Coolidge. Say what you will but numbers don’t lie. I’d love for all future presidents to be former governors but the American people are suckers for shiny things like an one term charismatic young senator or a provocative businessman that never even served as a city councilman or even an enlisted service member in the military. I just wish presidential elections were as boring as Ben Stein giving a detailed 6 hour analysis of safety practices of blanket usage. That’s the America I envision .
This would weed out a lot of hyperbole and mass hysteria. The debates could be based on accomplishments, failed policies, and successful policies. This would also be a win for fiscal conservatives since states don’t have unlimited access to debt like the federal government does. Most states even have a balanced budget amendment. These habits wouldn’t prevent runaway spending or deficit spending but would gives us an executive that has inclinations to make sound financial decisions that they were discipled in to practicing as a governor especially in those states with balanced budget requirements. Bill Clinton campaigned that he had a balanced budget every year he was governor of Arkansas. That was nothing to brag about because Arkansas law required a balanced budget. However Clinton will go down in history as the most fiscally conservative president since Calvin Coolidge. Say what you will but numbers don’t lie. I’d love for all future presidents to be former governors but the American people are suckers for shiny things like an one term charismatic young senator or a provocative businessman that never even served as a city councilman or even an enlisted service member in the military. I just wish presidential elections were as boring as Ben Stein giving a detailed 6 hour analysis of safety practices of blanket usage. That’s the America I envision .