Originally Posted by
CALFO
my point is that when I read fear-mongering of what a Dem President will mean for our careers, it just doesn’t pan out. If you liked the past four years the you should realize that Your good fortune is a combination of growth, seniority movement and a good contract.
The seniority movement is the result of age 65 finally catching up (changes from age 60 under Bush),
the growth was the result of a successful company executing its business plan. That plan was formed and in effect before Trump took office (think massive 737, 787 orders and deliveries AND 777-300 orders)
Finally, our current contract was signed while a Dem was in office. Have we seen a new contract under Trump? Nope.
so, stop being afraid, crack a cold one and make a change in November.
the bill to extend to age 65 was introduced and sponsored by house democrats and both the house and the senate were controlled by the dems. The house even had the same speaker as sits there today, so to imply that just because a republican president signed it into law that it was solely due to a republican Sitting president is a fallacy.
you say make a change, yet the people who are running the house and senate on both sides have been in Washington for much much longer than a President elected 4 years ago and yet they have kept the status quo for far too long. And don’t nominate a man who has been in both the senate and the executive branch for the better part my life and now all of a sudden claims changes need to happen in Washington.
IF you really want to change the country, flush out the house and senate (both sides) and vote in people who actually remember what being a normal American citizen is like.
IF you really want our government to function again, force your state legislatures to vote for a convention of states to enact term limits for the senate and congress, restrict them from spending more than they take in, and prevent companies from being able to lobby them so they can serve their purpose of representing the PEOPLE and not business.
IF you actually give a **** about how the next 10-20-100 years of this country will go, force an end to the two party system where they pander the far extremes and forget about all the people in the middle.
Most importantly, remember none of these elected officials in the house and senate are our LEADERS. They are not supposed to be part the elite and revered by the common man. They are not supposed to make a career out of fleecing the American population. They are supposed to be our voices and should be doing what WE THE PEOPLE elected them to do, represent us!