President Trump
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It will be fine
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It’s clear you haven’t really thought this through or looked at any results of where it’s been tried. The actual results are partisan puppets propped up by special interests that have the organizations in place to run elections. You have elected representatives that aren’t accountable to their electorate because they don’t need their vote again. They are in place to vote for the organizations that put them there, either a corporation or political party since that is where their next job will come from. Removing experienced leadership from a chamber doesn’t help things. If you know you’re only going to be around a few years there’s no incentive to cooperate with the other side.No, that's not my ideal setup, it's the setup we have now, where the elected officials campaign and raise funds for the next election, and the staffers do the bulk of the work.
My ideal setup is one where they have a single term though. Whether or not they choose to use that term to put their noses to the grindstone and make a difference will still be up to them, but it will be their only chance at it, either way.
By your measure, this will ruin the congress because the staffers are the only ones who know what's going on. Using that same measure to look back, would that then mean all freshmen Reps and Senators are and have been useless in the past? I think we can definitively say that's untrue, so while the learning curve might be steep, I think this problem could be mitigated to an extent by staggering the election years to keep some experienced lawmakers in place while the new class is coming in, and with quality experienced staffers we've spoke of here already.
We have nothing to lose by doing this.
We're already burdened with ineffective lawmakers. Things in Washington are at a standstill and we've got two parties who refuse to work together because of past perceived slights, political hit jobs, differences of opinion on the core issues, etc. These wounds run deep too - the past 10 to 15 years have been to worst period in our congress' history, and it's not looking up.
We can let this same story play out over another generation, or we can do something drastic to try to change the culture in DC. In my opinion, changingup big time in Washington is the kick in the ass our country needs. You want to drain the swamp? Here you go. This is the way to really do it:
Get behind the rhetoric - •••Drain That Swamp••• •••Drain That Swamp••• •••Drain That Swamp•••
Let's truly MAGA!
Hoping that term limits would magically produce great civic minded legislators is a joke not supported by any evidence.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
You under estimate gun loving bastards.
LarryBird
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Sportello
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Don't blame me for your very public meltdown.
AT&T’s CEO, Randall Stephenson, promised in November 2017 to invest $1bn in capital expenditure and create 7,000 new jobs at the company if Trump’s hugely controversial tax cut bill passed. Many opponents had slammed the cuts as a corporate giveaway that benefited the super-rich. But big firms lobbied for it, saying – as AT&T did – that it would fund job-creating expansions.
The bill was voted into law in December 2017, reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. AT&T’s benefit was a tax windfall of $21bn and an additional estimated $3bn annually. But instead of creating jobs and increasing investment into the company, AT&T has eliminated 23,328 jobs since the tax cut bill was passed, according to a recent report by the Communications Workers of America. The CWA also said AT&T reduced their capital investments by $1.4bn.
Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
The bill was voted into law in December 2017, reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. AT&T’s benefit was a tax windfall of $21bn and an additional estimated $3bn annually. But instead of creating jobs and increasing investment into the company, AT&T has eliminated 23,328 jobs since the tax cut bill was passed, according to a recent report by the Communications Workers of America. The CWA also said AT&T reduced their capital investments by $1.4bn.
Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
As usual with your posts, they are filled with half-truths.
Jobs were relocated from expensive operating cost states like Connecticut and moved to business friendly states like Tennessee and Georgia. People were offered jobs in the new locations and for various reasons, they refused.
The other example of cutting jobs was allocating jobs based on demand and technology changes.
Jobs were created in business friendly states and lost in high operating cost states.
I am more concerned that people in these Socialist states moving to the South.
Too damn many relocations to the South already.
newfie
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I think if you dabble in current events then you probably should take more you see with a grain of salt
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
BrownArmy
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You need to get over it.
Republicans controlled the Senate and the House under Obama, they couldn’t nail that b.
Trump rolls in with full control of, basically, 66% of Government, on a promise that he was gonna ‘lock her up’.
Still couldn’t nail that b.
GET AWAY, YE RUSSIAN TROLL-BOT FAKE NEWS KOREAN VET FAKER.
Turdferguson
Just a turd
What about all the posts I called you a
in?
BrownArmy
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BrownArmy
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Turdferguson
Just a turd
newfie
Well-Known Member
Probably wrong but not necessarily inaccurateWhat about all the posts I called you a
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Whazzup SlowMind?Why? Did they chase you away? Did you fill your diaper because the bullies were mean to you?
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
I've got to say, you look older.
I am older.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Ever hear the phrase, "Pissing in your ear and telling you it's raining?"
