We get precisely the government that we - US - deserve, and good and hard. My eyes have been and are being much opened by Karl Popper's 1947 The Open Society and Its Enemies (2013 edition). Unfortunately it is 800 pages of complex political philosophy, assuring that morons will never see it's back pages.
You will get better response not using blind URLs/subsitutes. I will not look at one.
You want long urls? So be it: Goggle is your friend! I was only condensing very long ones into short, easy to post urls, which is what "tinyurl" is for.
You can do your own footwork and find the same authoritative references I did, or, you can save yourself time and trust me until I burn you....which will NEVER happen.
eye95 said:
Folks believe that it is everyone [elses] congressman who is the problem.
Reminds me of a poll I saw awhile back with stats that showed somewhere in the rage of 19 out of a 100 questioned approved of the job Congress was doing, however, something like 55 out of 100 [I would be willing to bet it was over 50%] of them thought that their representatives where doing a good job. I think it's called: propaganda
oc for me said:
There are no morons in congress, just ask the folks who elected them.
The vast majority of the people who go to the polls are the morons. They believe what is fed to them by the media. We all remember the summer of 2011 when Congress put together another one of their "special panels" to come up with 1.2 trillion in cuts over coming 10 years or the automatic non-discriminate cuts across the board would come?
Of course we do.
Well, in March 2011, Fox News.com reported on 1Mar2011 [
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...eport-identifies-dozens-duplicative-programs/ ]that the non-partisan GAO identified ways in which the federal govt. could save as much as 200 billion a year without cutting services.
That "SPECIAL PANEL" of the summer of 2011 only had to come up with 120 billion a year in cuts!!!
However, once the cable news networks realized that the viewers were more interested in the name calling & bickering back & forth between the parties, like it was some kind of reality show............well the news networks stopped anymore reporting of that "boring" GAO report & failed to remind their viewers that the answer to all their problems [when it came to finding the cuts needed] has already been identified!
Here is the complete report in pdf form.
[
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11318sp.pdf ] So, why did the news agencies drop this fact like a hot potato? Could it be because they treat their news reporting like a reality show? It is what their viewers want, so it's the kind of news reporting that their advertisers are willing to pay to advertise on.
And why did your politicians ignore the GAO's report? Because anyway you cut it......... a special interest group would end up losing funding.