"The trouble with the rat race is even if you win, you find out you're still a rat."
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So now that the Democrats have won Congress, when can I expect to live the good life? Will I get tax cuts? Possibly checks in the mail?
But seriously, is this how we're gonna live? Every 8 or so yrs we can expect a cleaning of house (so to speak) and perhaps an impeachment? Partisan politics and a growing polarization is ruining whatever minute amount of legitimate representative democracy we have left not to mention the citizens of this nation getting what they deserve (affordable health care, basic necessities like clean water and livable conditions). So everyone on the blue side can wish-wash themselves to victory, while everyone on the red side can shake their heads by thinking the nation will be that much unsafer or in worse hands - but in all honesty, we're just continuing the same ways as we have in the past which lead us to problems and issues.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic - Benjamin Franklin
But seriously, is this how we're gonna live? Every 8 or so yrs we can expect a cleaning of house (so to speak) and perhaps an impeachment? Partisan politics and a growing polarization is ruining whatever minute amount of legitimate representative democracy we have left not to mention the citizens of this nation getting what they deserve (affordable health care, basic necessities like clean water and livable conditions). So everyone on the blue side can wish-wash themselves to victory, while everyone on the red side can shake their heads by thinking the nation will be that much unsafer or in worse hands - but in all honesty, we're just continuing the same ways as we have in the past which lead us to problems and issues.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic - Benjamin Franklin
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
First off, I understand your attitude, I do. I was scanning posts tonight and yours matched my mindset more than any other, hence the reply. If you read American history it's easy to see the cyclical, copyrighted, patented, cleaned and pressed omniprescence of those yahoo's at work. I understand that. I understand the Washington DC culture. I understand it is a culture unto itself. There hasn't been a shake-up in DC in the history of this country save for the Civil War.
On the other hand, I can't honestly say that I displeased with the reults of this election.
How about you?
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Plain and simple: Our government is controlled and run by our Business and Corporate interests. We the people are second hand leftovers and both the Dems and Reps are completely at fault and more importantly responsible for it. It's not a mistake or accident and people don't want to accept this clear fact. People would rather live in an illusion of reality and blame one party or another or one group like liberals or another like conservatives.
In my opinion, whether your picking one group or the other, you are continuing the problem and merely only trying a band-aid fix rather than one that will really stop it from occuring.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
What do you mean by corrupt? Each administration begins with a fresh slate. There is no corruption until corruption occurs. Yes, there is a trend within our nation's capital to keep things under that particular control, and it does come down to Business and Corporations controling what they can control with the false premise of cha-ching. Money doesn't mean shit to me, either. Yet, there it is.
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Yes, the Dems won the election but they don't take control of Congress until January. Everyone is jumping the gun and they haven't even begun yet.
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
Camden 5-28-06
Washington, D.C. 6-22-08