It is true that the ”people” referred to by Charles R. Sikora Jr. (Nov. 8) did not order their money to be flushed away on boondoggles. It is also true that members of the ”world`s highest-paid elected bureaucracy” are subject to being turned out if the people are not satisfied with their work. The recent election shows, in the absence of a wholesale turning out, that the people must be satisfied.
Most incumbent office-holders were re-elected because the people who liked them voted. The people who didn`t like them stayed away from the polling places in large numbers.
No new system such as limiting the number of terms will do anything to improve our government`s way of doing business. Unless some way can be found to overcome voter apathy and the abdication of citizenship that non-voting amounts to, our political system can only change for the worse. The office-holder, secure in the knowledge that nothing will happen to him no matter what he does, will go on doing whatever he wants.
