SocialDemocrat
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2014
- Messages
- 922
- Reaction score
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- Location
- The beautiful Pacific Northwest
- Gender
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- Political Leaning
- Socialist
If congress critters were honest then they would never vote for these huge package deals of pork laden, unrelated matters. Bills should be about a single topic and funding bills should be about a single program. If the federal gov't is so big that it bcomes impossible to do so then let that help shrink it. Voting for massive bills that nobody even reads, much less debates, is insane. The concept that if a single massive bill is not passed (four months late?) then the entire federal government must shut down is absolutely ridiculous.
I agree. Let what ever issue of piece of legislation either stand of fall on it own merits.
As a member of congress, how would you have voted on the Cromnibus bill that recently passed both houses of congress?
A strong no vote from me.
That just might require working more than 100, or so, short days per year.
Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days
In a way if they worked only 7 days out of the year, perhaps we wouldn't get all this hogwash from Washington.
Not likely, they would simply claim to be too busy to do anything but add 4% to 5% to everything we now have, raise the debt ceiling and then get back to campaign fund raising.
As a member of congress, how would you have voted on the Cromnibus bill that recently passed both houses of congress?
A strong no vote from me.
That is the problem isn't, fund raising. When one has to raise more than a billion dollars to run for president, more than 100 million for a senate seat in some states, it all boil down to cash and from whom you can get it.
Yep, but look at all the loot they get to toss back to those loyal campaign contributors. In the last funding bill I noticed that the congress critters have a Capital Police Force of 1,775 officers which is over 3 police officers for each congress critter. To put that in context, the city of Baltimore, MD (pop. 621K) has about 3,400 police officers and DC (pop. 646K) has about 3,800 police officers.
You have to reward the one who give you the cash. In any other line of work it would be called bribes with jail time.
Yep, a good clue is - why would anyone spend 100X (or far more) what a job pays annually just to apply for it?
As a member of congress, how would you have voted on the Cromnibus bill that recently passed both houses of congress?
A strong no vote from me.
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