Quote from overtooled:
here's the problem..
every time a new member is elected to congress he/she has to prove their 'net worth' of election.
what does this entail, you ask?
Means they must do smthg while they are there cause 'nothing is not a cool hand'.
and that SMTHG is introducing new bills. and new bills inevitably mean MORE SPENDING. more laws constraining behaviour so the whole process is tainted in favor of more more spending, and all tied to human nature, for the worse :/
I'd vote for next congressman whose platform was NOTHING. I promise to do NOTHING. No new spending bills, no new taxes, no new stupid knee-jerk let's outlaw farting in public cause 3 people in US are offended smelling farts kind of bills. no new NOTHING! The status quo is good enuf, let's let the dust settlte before we give away or outlaw evrything in the name of ... whatever.
[breathe in...ahhh]
that's all
:/

Quote from overtooled:
here's the problem..
every time a new member is elected to congress he/she has to prove their 'net worth' of election.
what does this entail, you ask?
Means they must do smthg while they are there cause 'nothing is not a cool hand'.
and that SMTHG is introducing new bills. and new bills inevitably mean MORE SPENDING. more laws constraining behaviour so the whole process is tainted in favor of more more spending, and all tied to human nature, for the worse :/
I'd vote for next congressman whose platform was NOTHING. I promise to do NOTHING. No new spending bills, no new taxes, no new stupid knee-jerk let's outlaw farting in public cause 3 people in US are offended smelling farts kind of bills. no new NOTHING! The status quo is good enuf, let's let the dust settlte before we give away or outlaw evrything in the name of ... whatever.
[breathe in...ahhh]
that's all
:/
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
We should have taken their oil fields after the first Gulf war. We should have kept the Kuwaiti oil fields as well. We liberate them, we keep them. We could have driven a stake through OPEC's heart with all the production Halliburton could have gotten out of those fields. $10 oil would have kept the Iranians from having the means to support terrorists, and would have reminded the Saudis who their daddy is.
As an added benefit, consumers in the US would be lining up to buy SUV's and big V-8 performance cars. Life would be good.
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
We should have taken their oil fields after the first Gulf war. We should have kept the Kuwaiti oil fields as well. We liberate them, we keep them. We could have driven a stake through OPEC's heart with all the production Halliburton could have gotten out of those fields. $10 oil would have kept the Iranians from having the means to support terrorists, and would have reminded the Saudis who their daddy is.
As an added benefit, consumers in the US would be lining up to buy SUV's and big V-8 performance cars. Life would be good.