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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Yeah... it's completely self-interested and against the interest of good, clean, efficient government. In other words, these types of Omnibus Spending Bills pit our government against America's citizens. There used to be a popular saying: "America is great because America is good". It's no longer true. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Ammoholic |
His reinvest the savings means keep spending the money. *If* one were to reinvest the savings, they should instead use it instead to buy another 6-9 months of solvency for SS & Medicare. Heck it probably won't even buy a few extra months considering the 9% COLA they had to dish out due to their earlier reckless spending. What are the current projections for that house of cards falling after the COLA? I'm sure that shaves a year or two off. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Link Most of these are no surprise, except for Tom Cotton.  Thankfully, absent from the list are Tennessee's (Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, both Trump-endorsed, bTW).  | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I have to agree that America is neither great nor good nowadays, but the idea still is. I hope that that's worth something. People scream and cry "CORRUPTION!!!" while pointing fingers at other countries and I'd argue the we are the most corrupt country on the face of the planet. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Naturally. We have all the wealth and power. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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There you are folks the senators who are not conservative and willing to sell the country out for special interests, lining their pockets while spouting out that they are conservatives. Until we have the mind set of the big picture and make changes in our voting in primaries against these asshats we will continue down this road. I regretfully voted in the past for Thune and Rounds while being a resident of SD. Only because we failed to primary any candidates against them and not voting for them was a half of a vote for a democrat. It was like when McCain was our forced choice. I continuously called and wrote to them on my views. I will continue to talk out against the above POS in government who are hellbent on destroying our country. Finally I could care less if those who voted for these idiots told me to go to hell or not because I am willing to look at the big picture. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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My guess is that there are few Republicans that are trustworthy. These were the ones just elected to 6 year terms. Two years from now, a different set will stab us in the back. Then two year after that, a different set. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
^^ I think that's an open question. There's little doubt that the sellouts have embedded themselves like ticks in leadership positions, and worked together to keep "the gang" embedded. Because they exercise the control that they do, there's no real way of knowing whether the next generation of leadership will be good or bad except insofar as the grass roots plays a role in selecting them for leadership positions. | |||
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John Cornyn. That fucking RINO!!! I'm so glad he's in his last term. I don't even know if he's running again, but if he is, I'll be hoping beyond hope that sunuvabitch DOESN'T get re-elected.  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Here goes. Picture a hog trough a mile long. The slop is dumped in at the front of the trough. It runs downhill. When the Demorats are in, they take their place at the front of the trough in order by favoritism and seniority followed by the Repubs. Each feed and the last in line get the scraps. When the Repubs are in, the order reverses. This is a simple way of describing all of our leadership. We need to fix this horseshit. Awake not woke | |||
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