Quote from gnome:
(BTW... most of the time, Congress merely rubber-stamps whatever the President wants...)
This is no excuse
(BTW... most of the time, Congress merely rubber-stamps whatever the President wants...)
This is no excuse
Quote from gnome:
1. I USED to like it... but politicians have hosed it up.... (apparently under your very nose and you haven't noticed)
At some point in our history politicos realized, "Hey, these American citizens are oblivious... we can MILK THE CRAP OUT OF THEM and they'll barely notice"... and so it has been ever since.
2. Have you seen the PANTS my wife wears?
Quote from Humpy:
How about this as a conspiracy theory ?
Bush &co, get fed up being criticized and decide to take more and more power until they are like dictators. If Putin can do exactly that, then why not elsewhere.
Step 1 is to scare the people so badly that they give you overall power to " sort out the mess ".
a) get everyone scared of something e.g. terrorism. The reality is Bin Laden is really only a relatively impotent old lunatic. But the fear factor has given the Exec sweeping powers to arrest and detain people.
O.K. so that isn't quite enough , so ratchet up the fear and awe by having a general financial crisis too.
What better way than affect everyone financially through the banks almost collapsing. The exec puts forward a plan to "rescue" the nation. This involves giving them even more powers.
Could this scenario really be happening ?
If it is by the time people realize they have got a dictator it will be too late. Any small pockets of resistance would be crushed on the excuse that they are linked to terrorism or something.
Its for YOU to decide
Quote from Humpy:
How about this as a conspiracy theory ?
Bush &co, get fed up being criticized and decide to take more and more power until they are like dictators.
Quote from gnome:
Oh, I get it now. You don't care about taxes because you can't make any money... so you don't have to pay taxes...