Bill” is a man after my own heart.

That’s all I can call him…because that’s how his letter to the editor is signed, “Bill.” He’s pushing for term limits, though not explicitly.

Bill is responding to a scandal involving a state agency called the Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium. The Consortium is supposed to be devoted to job training. But instead, shocker, big chunks of funding were recently diverted to a few agency officials. According to the Des Moines Register, $1.6 million in taxpayer money intended for job training went instead to bonuses and salaries.

Scooped up mostly by just three executives.

Anyway, in response to all this, which included the resignation of a Des Moines city councilman who approved the inflated salaries, our friend Bill says he agrees with the perception that “politics in general corrupts all levels of government. But don’t you think we’ve reached a point in this city where the bums simply have to go? At least new leadership will be held to a higher standard and be under tighter scrutiny.”

Then Bill floats his most radical notion: Get rid of them all. Why? As Bill says, “[S]imply to clear the air and put this back on firm footing.” Bill astutely points out that there are plenty of smart business people in the city to step up. And he makes the old Jeffersonian point that politics needs a good purging now and then.

You’re right, Bill. It’s just Common Sense, really.

I’m Paul Jacob.