Political hired gun now involved in Boston Latin issue

The Founders of the nation wore many identities. That of lawyer is not surprising since law was a major concern. Government can not exist without law defining it. Yet Adams, Jefferson and Washington were all farmers, intellectuals and in Washington's case a career soldier. They were religious, many Deists and they were willing to risk their lives to accomplish what was a radical idea: self governance. So to reduce them to lawyers, speculators, financiers and slave owners ignores that many of them also responded to noble callings as well as their personal interests.

They and people such as Adam Smith also understood that the motivations of greed, desire for power, wealth and priviledge were as much of human identity as love and kindness. They subscribed to the foundational belief that since these motivations can not be eliminated (the Soviet Union and China proved that) that then should be harnessed. Hence capitalism.

So the question is not whether term limits are no less effective in directing the inevitable selfish human motivations toward the greater good but what form of leadership is best today for directing the raw materal of human desire to the greater good.

As for term limits most Founders did not see a need in their time. Washington however did however choose to retire after two terms and set a Presidentail precedent until Roosevelt.

Would term limits however be appropriate for today? Is goverment working as well as it should for the common good today? Many argues that today Congress is the most ineffective branch today. That is understandable since the majority party in both houses has as its philosophy that no governance is the best governance. Agree with that principle and there is not reason to change. But if the legilature is expected to have any active role in the life of a nation then term limits might be the only way to bring back to life what has become a moribund institution.

Considering that the Legislature is doing their best to undermine government such as by preventing judicial appointments and limiting themselves in what they do with Executive and regulatory agencies, perhaps Congress needs a major overhaul to get rid of legislators who do nothing more than bloviate at hearings.

decide to move somewhere with better schools.

Former (and future likely) Walsh campaign flack Kate Norton (IndyBoston spokesperson) claimed on Twitter that CK Strategies (her employer run by Marty's campaign manager) had not been paid as a vendor for IndyBoston. I'd be interesting to know if they (Norton, Keohan, etc...) were continuing to get paid by Marty Walsh's campaign structure to work for IndyBoston or not. Or are they actually just writing off the past year of effort as a sunk cost on a failed venture.

I suspect they aren't eating ramen noodles for dinner due to IndyBoston stiffing the ticket purchasers and vendors.