Originally Posted by
gollum
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.
Where did I imply that?
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.
The "change" achievable in this election is the choice of continuing with a divisive President who is questioning the very foundation of our democratic process with his continual assertion that if he loses the election it can only be the result of fraud OR we can elect a president who seems to, at the very least, belief in our democratic process.
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.
Agreed. But I also want to know who the "normal Americans" are. I'm not going to vote for Q-Anon nutjob just to remove a career politician.
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.
I agree in principle but appreciate the irony that we are in the middle of one of the largest lobbying efforts in airline history to encourage another few billion in handouts to our industry. We are lock-step, hand-in-hand, with management to get it done.
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.
Hmm. Not sure how I can "force an end" to this. About the best I can do is vote for third party candidates.
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!
Nature of the beast.