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.
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!
I would like to add that we already have term limits. The House every 2 years and the Senate every 6 and the President every 4. It’s pretty simple. You don’t like your representation vote them out. Simple as that.
It’s the way the elitists who founded this country intended it. It’s written on the constitution. Oh and make no mistake you speak badly about the elitists who are in our government now, who do you think founded this country? It sure as heck wasn’t a bunch of rough and tumble farmers and blacksmiths. It was the richest of the rich. It was George Washington, who hid it well by placing most of his assets in his wife’s name, Two of the top 5 richest were Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock. Robert Morris, who was the richest, helped finance the Revolution and Stephen Girard and he financed the War of 1812. My point is the framers of this country were the elite, they were not the common man. They got their financing by appealing to the other elites and framed the constitution to their benefit. Why is it 200 and some odd years later you want to change it? If you like the economic history of this country you should want to keep it status quo. You speak like the inadequacy you see now is something new? Like you didn’t know the richest of the rich started the revolution to avoid paying the rightfully due tax to the King for protection during the French Indian War.
Related I always like going to an experienced mechanic for my car. Preferring one that has worked on my type of car, than trusting some new guy that just hung up his sign. I’m not saying the inexperienced guy is bad, just saying the experienced one statistically has a better chance of fixing my issue the first time. Sure the experienced one may charge me more for his experience and he may be able to fix the issue in 10 minutes and charge me the book rate of 2.5 labor hours but that’s part of the process and I understand it. Just saying this analogy says a lot about how I feel about politics.