Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 13:58     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think if we passed draconian campaign finance reform, it would force politicians to clean up.


We also need term limits. No one should be in Congress for more than 10 years, maybe 12 for senators. Unlimited terms lead to corruption and wishy-washy politicians and vulnerability to foreign influence.

We already have term limits; they're called elections. Imposed term limits are a profoundly undemocratic approach to fostering political reform. Further, they actually FOSTER corruption and incompetence as experienced Members are cycled out in favor of neophytes and scam artists out to make a score instead of actually governing. I'd repeal the 22nd Amendment if I could.

If you want to addressed entrenched incumbency, look to campaign finance reform and ending gerrymandering.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 13:48     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Both. Although Republicans have taken a commanding lead in the race.

-Democrat



This basically correct, IMO. BUT, I get sick when Democrats use this to excuse their contribution. If the Republicans are massively irresponsible, it shouldn't justify the Democrats being any kind of irresponsible, it should mean Democrats have to get massively better or else we will all be in a serious mess.

-another Democrat

I agree with you in principle, but in the real world being the better people only ends up with the Democrats getting their asses kicked. Again.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 09:14     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
All you have to do is look at the state of cities like San Francisco to get a glimpse of the future under the Dems.

Hell, since Virginia went Democratic, I'm seeing a beggar on every corner in my area of Fairfax County when there were once very few
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 09:01     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:part of the problem in this country is that we have become a nanny state. Sad but true, this is a real problem perpetuated by the left. Democrats want votes. Yet, don't do anything for these people. Look at big cities. It is in sad state of affairs. Yet, these people continue to vote for democrats expecting different outcome. When will they wake up?


Here's the nanny state:











last i checked those companies create jobs for many. If you can't grasp what nanny state is, it goes to show your lack of understanding and education

I know, right? Some of these liberals are beyond stupid. That one is so against large corporations and the millions of jobs they offer that he calls them part of the nanny state. Unreal.

We are so used to corporations as "private" enterprise that we forget thet were invented by governments to promote capital for government-sponsored trade, and have worked hand-in-hand with government ever since.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 08:46     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:

it is business. Same as everywhere else. You might want to move to Mars. Where do you work? Oh, you probably don't.


Mars it the planet the conservatives destroyed before we moved to earth.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 08:45     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Well, this article sheds new light on the Gary Hart "affair"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/was-gary-hart-set-up/570802/

This would put things squarely on Lee Atwater as the godfather of today's politics.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 19:09     Subject: Re:Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Yea, because food stamps and section 8 housing aren't corporate subsidies.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 18:47     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
I see those pictures. One is a defense contractor and employs some of my kids US citizen friends who got squeezed out of many stem jobs {HB} not requiring citizenship.


Another is Verizon. Happy to see tech support people located in the USA whenever I call.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 13:40     Subject: Re:Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Its called business if the business operate solely by selling their products/services to the market. But in the US the businesses get subsidies and low taxes at the cost of healthcare to citizens, good education to the citizens, national infrastructure that are on the verge of collapse, and voters who are taken for a ride but delivered demagoguery about immigrants. Its a shame!
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 13:23     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:part of the problem in this country is that we have become a nanny state. Sad but true, this is a real problem perpetuated by the left. Democrats want votes. Yet, don't do anything for these people. Look at big cities. It is in sad state of affairs. Yet, these people continue to vote for democrats expecting different outcome. When will they wake up?


Here's the nanny state:













last i checked those companies create jobs for many. If you can't grasp what nanny state is, it goes to show your lack of understanding and education

I know, right? Some of these liberals are beyond stupid. That one is so against large corporations and the millions of jobs they offer that he calls them part of the nanny state. Unreal.


Billions in subsidies for large corporations is not "the nanny state"?

Cradle to grave socialism for retired military is not "the nanny state"?

No-bid contracts to defense contractors, siphoning off the US taxpayer is not "the nanny state"?

Telecom monopolies paying off Congress to write laws that further entrench their monopolies is not "the nanny state"?

None of the above sounds like free markets to me. It sounds like a socialist, insider paradise where private individuals get billions of taxpayer subsidies.


it is business. Same as everywhere else. You might want to move to Mars. Where do you work? Oh, you probably don't.



As Obama would say what is your SUCCESS STORY? Do you work and earn your living or live off of the government.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 13:22     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:part of the problem in this country is that we have become a nanny state. Sad but true, this is a real problem perpetuated by the left. Democrats want votes. Yet, don't do anything for these people. Look at big cities. It is in sad state of affairs. Yet, these people continue to vote for democrats expecting different outcome. When will they wake up?


Here's the nanny state:













last i checked those companies create jobs for many. If you can't grasp what nanny state is, it goes to show your lack of understanding and education

I know, right? Some of these liberals are beyond stupid. That one is so against large corporations and the millions of jobs they offer that he calls them part of the nanny state. Unreal.


Billions in subsidies for large corporations is not "the nanny state"?

Cradle to grave socialism for retired military is not "the nanny state"?

No-bid contracts to defense contractors, siphoning off the US taxpayer is not "the nanny state"?

Telecom monopolies paying off Congress to write laws that further entrench their monopolies is not "the nanny state"?

None of the above sounds like free markets to me. It sounds like a socialist, insider paradise where private individuals get billions of taxpayer subsidies.


it is business. Same as everywhere else. You might want to move to Mars. Where do you work? Oh, you probably don't.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 11:01     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:part of the problem in this country is that we have become a nanny state. Sad but true, this is a real problem perpetuated by the left. Democrats want votes. Yet, don't do anything for these people. Look at big cities. It is in sad state of affairs. Yet, these people continue to vote for democrats expecting different outcome. When will they wake up?


Here's the nanny state:











last i checked those companies create jobs for many. If you can't grasp what nanny state is, it goes to show your lack of understanding and education

I know, right? Some of these liberals are beyond stupid. That one is so against large corporations and the millions of jobs they offer that he calls them part of the nanny state. Unreal.


Billions in subsidies for large corporations is not "the nanny state"?

Cradle to grave socialism for retired military is not "the nanny state"?

No-bid contracts to defense contractors, siphoning off the US taxpayer is not "the nanny state"?

Telecom monopolies paying off Congress to write laws that further entrench their monopolies is not "the nanny state"?

None of the above sounds like free markets to me. It sounds like a socialist, insider paradise where private individuals get billions of taxpayer subsidies.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 10:38     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:part of the problem in this country is that we have become a nanny state. Sad but true, this is a real problem perpetuated by the left. Democrats want votes. Yet, don't do anything for these people. Look at big cities. It is in sad state of affairs. Yet, these people continue to vote for democrats expecting different outcome. When will they wake up?


Here's the nanny state:











last i checked those companies create jobs for many. If you can't grasp what nanny state is, it goes to show your lack of understanding and education

I know, right? Some of these liberals are beyond stupid. That one is so against large corporations and the millions of jobs they offer that he calls them part of the nanny state. Unreal.
Anonymous
Post 08/29/2018 10:25     Subject: Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:part of the problem in this country is that we have become a nanny state. Sad but true, this is a real problem perpetuated by the left. Democrats want votes. Yet, don't do anything for these people. Look at big cities. It is in sad state of affairs. Yet, these people continue to vote for democrats expecting different outcome. When will they wake up?


Here's the nanny state:











last i checked those companies create jobs for many. If you can't grasp what nanny state is, it goes to show your lack of understanding and education
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 21:46     Subject: Re:Demise of this Country - Democrats or Republicans or both?
Anonymous wrote:Intolerant liberals. Are not all elite like this ?


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/technology/inside-facebook-employees-political-bias.html


Yea but the fact that the group took hold and FB management didn't not view it as breaking company policy gives us some hope that there remains some measure of rationality within Facebook.