OK, thanks Congressmen and Senators, for spending billions and not doing anything substantial. Thanks for doing NOTHING about energy independence, thanks for doing NOTHING to fix Social Security. Thanks for doing NOTHING to combat the Chinese assualt upon the US Defense system (Chinese spies have stolen enormous amounts of sensitve info on the AEGIS ship defense system, the DDX destroyer, nuclear weapons and guidance systems.
Thanks for ignoring the huge balance of payments deficit -I guess its OK that we resign ourselves to being hamburger flippers.
In short, another huge waste of time and money…the same old lobbyists run washington. its nothing to YOU that the country is facing collapse-most of you don’t give a damn! As long as you get your congressional pension and free healthcare for life-you don’t care!
And, special thanks to Sen. ted Kennedy: you torpedoed wind power on Cape Cod-thanks for your help in keeping MA electric rates UP! :smack:
Quit your bitching and vote them out in November.
I actually wish that most times they would do nothing. In fact, I wish that they would be so preoccupied with obstructing each other at all times that they can’t even collaborate to interfere with the affairs of states.
You realize, of course, that every state can pretty much do what they want to in that case? No Ted Kennedy to interfere, no Rick Santorum to push nonsense morality legislation, no controversy about habeas corpus… think of the possibilities!
Ah, but the snag is that the Feds have to pay for the windmills. Yeah, that is a proble. May I suggest pening up a lemonade stand or having a bake sale? Every little bit counts, dontchaknow.
Not that I disagree with you about the gridlock (in many cases, anyhow), but I don’t think I should spend billions of dollars to accomplish nothing when I could just as easily spend 0.
Hmm. How is Congress responsible for this? I thought the CIA and FBI handled these types of matters. It isn’t like Trent Lott goes out and catches spies after the Senate is done voting for the night.
Most of the rest of what you said, I kind of agree, but I’d add nonsense like talking about gay marriage when we should be dealing with Iraq, trying to shove more tax cuts through when our country is hundreds of billions in the red, and doing absolutely nothing to stem the influence of money and lobbyists to the system.
I agree 100% with this. It’s absolutely infuriating to me that these guys spend their time flailing around for some issue (gay marriage, flag burning, etc.) to get them reelected in order instead of having the stones to do their jobs and actually try to solve the hard problems (Social Security insolvency, the budget deficit, Iraq). Refusing to do anything difficult or potentially unpopular as a leader is the height of irresponsibility. It’s like a parent who only feeds their kid ice cream.
Social security isn’t broken. If you can’t follow politics well enough to understand that that was just Bush’s rhetoric, I’m not sure you have any business opining on politics at all.
I probably should have quoted the OP when I said this, so it was clear who I was addressing my comments to.
Part of getting them voted out is bitching about it loud enough to get people’s attention.
I do have to say that this is the worse slate of candidates I’ve ecer seen in a mid-term election, at least in my district. I honestly can’t decide if I should vote to keep the same ineffectual money-grubbing whore in her seat (the devil I know) or put a brand new whore who has shown to have his own different money-rubbing tendencies there. It is really a democracy if the only choices I have are Piece of Shit #1 and Piece of Shit #2?
That’s the problem. Congress just passes laws leaving everything up to the President.
I dunno. . .I’ve heard things.
Whereas I wish that there were simply less of the bullshit “Gotcha” politics and more of a concerted effort to act in some statesmanlike fashion. Fuck me thrice! We just watched esteemed gentlemen from numerous states decide that torture isn’t torture unless the executive branch says it is (I predict that turning into a horrible cock up soon enough). And part of what is so fucking maddening about it is that in my state, anyway, it’s much as Sean Factotum says, the choices are far from ideal. Comes down to the boob with nuts or the nut with boobs. I know full well who I’ll wind up voting for, but I would really like a candidate that I can feel passionate about. And that this candidate would get to DC and act like a fucking grownup.
Ah, shit. I’m just a cockeyed optimist.
SS is a massive Ponzi scheme, nothing more. It was broken from day one.
You’re both right, in a way. Social security isn’t any more broken today than it was when it first began.
This Congress worked only 94 days this year. Ninety fucking four days. As much as I hate this President, these bastards in Congress that kowtow to him, don’t do anything, and generally fuck everything up deserve as much blame.
94 days.
Seeing the words FUCK and CONGRESS so close together in so many posts and so many threads makes me think that the phrase sexual congress should probably get a new mention or two in my lexicon.
Esp with the new page scandal.
Just a silly thought… Carry on.
Indeed, George Bush and his cronies constitute the single most ineffective, dim-witted, misguided, neglectful, this-close-to-evil administration I have seen in my 37 years. Forcing bald-faced lies on us as a basis for a completely unnecessary war, leaving thousands to fend for themselves after one of the worst natural disasters within our borders in recent history, sucking up to nearly every special interest that exists, devoting more effort to the Janet Jackson incident than to education and health care reform…where does it end?
I’ll tell you where it ends. Now and November 2008. I am not sure a Democratic administration will do any better, but it can certainly do no worse.
I am one pissed-off U.S citizen right now, and I weep for my beautiful country which I love. But all you good people here give me hope for the future.
Please, let’s all do the right thing and vote. This madness MUST end.
As long as it’s not on a Diebold machine.
(Don’t blame me, I voted for the competent candidate.)
Wikipedia (Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia) has a extensive section in it’s article explaining why government social security programs are NOT Ponzi schemes, despite the claims of right-wing critics.
And, as we have discovered, a lot corporate retirement plans (except to the chosen few) are just like Social Security. The money is not invested in general equities but in the corporation itself. They use the money in the daily operations of the corporation and rely on current earnings, and cash reserves if there are no earnings, to pay the pensioners.
Wow – talk about having all your eggs in one basket!
At least the government is less likely to go out of business than a corporation. Just ask my neighbors. One elderly man lost his pension when White Motors looted the Minneapolis Moline pension fund, another much younger lost most of his when MCI collapsed. But at least they still have Social Security pensions.