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Sailor Steve
12-12-14, 10:11 PM
A nice video examining the recent budget bill and explaining why it's all the Republicrats'/Demicans' fault. Congress knows no parties except the ones they throw for themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5yCKlK2Ak#t=356
Buddahaid
12-12-14, 10:43 PM
Sorry I'm not going to subscribe to watch it Steve.

EDIT: My mistake it just starts at the end for some reason.
Sailor Steve
12-13-14, 12:11 AM
I don't know why it's doing that. I've relinked it twice and it still does it.

Here's the original link. You can read the transcript here.
http://www.upworthy.com/the-house-just-passed-a-1603-page-bill-here-are-some-of-the-awful-things-they-hid-in-it?c=ufb1
Gargamel
12-13-14, 12:50 AM
I laughed at the the thread title.... then realized it wasn't a joke.
eddie
12-13-14, 01:41 AM
Glad to see they are going to loosen the controls on what banks can do! It sure worked out so well last time everything went to heck in a hand basket! Just what the country needs, another financial crisis!:nope: Screw those clowns in D.C. But, what can we do, we are just along for the ride anyway, and we pay in more ways then one, to fix things again. Send them all to Iraq, and let IS have them!:haha:
Herr-Berbunch
12-13-14, 02:30 AM
'Congress in action'? Should there really be a second space?
Wolferz
12-13-14, 05:54 AM
Only one way to fix these assclowns...

Seal up their chambers and suck out all the air.:yeah:
Jimbuna
12-13-14, 06:31 AM
'Congress in action'? Should there really be a second space?

LOL beaten to it :)
Oberon
12-13-14, 08:30 AM
If only someone had warned of the danger of parties in the State...

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/88/889dc1ec56614fd1f1314876a36effde79557de8749d3c157f 8c611824a7c05a.jpg
Armistead
12-13-14, 09:13 AM
Sure it's filled with tons of pork projects as well. Our govt. has no shame on anything, like spoiled kids that stick their tongues out at naive parents....
Wolferz
12-13-14, 09:55 AM
If the government shut down, would anyone really notice?

A certain party and it's members have had it shut down for a number of years now.:-?
STEED
12-13-14, 10:13 AM
Only one way to fix these assclowns...

Seal up their chambers and suck out all the air.:yeah:

Let me know how you got on, if successful I may do the same here to the HoC.
Sailor Steve
12-13-14, 11:07 AM
'Congress in action'? Should there really be a second space?
Well, there's the rub. We can joke about inaction, but that might be a good thing. When they do take action, as here, everyone suffers. Well, everyone but them.
Buddahaid
12-13-14, 11:13 AM
Pretty sure this is the way it's been done for a very long time. The only thing that spoiled the video for me was the snarky quips which gave it all the sincerity of a commercial hawking some wonder device, and using actors being ridiculously clumsy without one.
eddie
12-13-14, 05:22 PM
When you read about something like this, makes me wonder why I vote anymore. Seems like a big waste of my time, nothing changes, just more crap on a new day!:nope:
mapuc
12-13-14, 05:34 PM
When you read about something like this, makes me wonder why I vote anymore. Seems like a big waste of my time, nothing changes, just more crap on a new day!:nope:

There's a very good reason to why.

You are being told that Santa exist and you as rest of us believe it

Markus
eddie
12-13-14, 05:36 PM
You are right Markus!:D
eddie
12-13-14, 05:59 PM
This video is worth watching as she describes the power Citigroup has in Washington. Man, is it scary!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpTxONxvoo&feature=youtu.be
August
12-13-14, 06:15 PM
Waste of time?

Anyone who has actually voted knows that national offices are only one part of a ballot. Of far greater importance and relevance to a voter are the local elections and ballot questions.
Platapus
12-14-14, 08:01 AM
One useless man is a disgrace
Two useless men are a law firm
Three or more useless men are a congress. Johnny Adams
Platapus
12-14-14, 08:03 AM
When you read about something like this, makes me wonder why I vote anymore. Seems like a big waste of my time, nothing changes, just more crap on a new day!:nope:

Because if you don't vote there is an absolutely zero percent chance you can work to fix the problem.

Our government is still by the people.. but only if the people care.
Rockstar
12-14-14, 02:21 PM
Because if you don't vote there is an absolutely zero percent chance you can work to fix the problem.

Our government is still by the people.. but only if the people care.


Anatomy Of The Deep State (http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/)

There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power."
Wolferz
12-14-14, 08:30 PM
Deep State is a more formal moniker to describe the Shadow Government.

We The People are no longer in control and we haven't been for a very long time. Writing to an elected rep is like pissing into the wind. All you're going to get is wet, smelly and a form letter apologizing because the Senator or Congressman you wrote to will claim that he/she can not interfere with the bureaucracy on your behalf. Probably the reason why Gabriel Gifford got shot in the head.

The government is a monster and it will not obey...
*Steppenwolf*