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My Proposal for House of Representatives Reform
Brian Griffin | 01/04/2023 | Brian Griffin

Posted on 01/04/2023 11:12:06 AM PST by Brian Griffin

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Milquetoast McCarthy isn't the only problem Republicans face. Federal budgeting is a big mess.
1 posted on 01/04/2023 11:12:06 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

It will never happen.


2 posted on 01/04/2023 11:16:24 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Brian Griffin

👍


3 posted on 01/04/2023 11:19:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Navy Patriot

> It will never happen. <

It would be like trying to rearrange the planets alphabetically. A fun exercise, but impossible to actually do.


4 posted on 01/04/2023 11:24:22 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

It took the British Parliament centuries to reign in kings, but the power of the purse was the tool they used.


5 posted on 01/04/2023 12:25:22 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Leaning Right

If Republicans don’t try to reform the federal government, they probably won’t succeed.

We may not get everything, but I believe the effort will be well rewarded.


6 posted on 01/04/2023 12:29:48 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
My Proposal for House of Representatives Reform

I'm so glad that you are in a position to be proposing things up at the capital.

Have you already proposed this on the floor or are you on the list?

What?

Are you having this proposal made by proxy?

What?

Sooo....

7 posted on 01/04/2023 12:45:12 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

I could send a letter to my Congressman and get an e-mail thank you sent by a staffer employed to send canned replies.

Or I could post my proposal here and maybe a few hundred people would read it, hopefully including one person actually likely to help bring my proposal into practice.


8 posted on 01/04/2023 12:59:20 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: humblegunner

“I’m so glad that you are in a position to be proposing things up at the capital.”

I do what I can, which is to write down my thoughts and post them where maybe a few thousand people will read them.

Hopefully, one of them has politically useful skills.


9 posted on 01/04/2023 1:04:50 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

OK, so you’re just venting.
This “proposal” is just some chat between pals.

Because you really aren’t in a position to be making any REAL proposals.

Maybe call it something else.


10 posted on 01/04/2023 1:05:19 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

“humblegunner
Since Jan 23, 2001
This account has been banned or suspended.”


11 posted on 01/04/2023 1:06:28 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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This account has been banned or suspended.

Yes, I'm still posting because of MAGIC.

So why were you trying to stalk me?

Are you some kind of pervert?

12 posted on 01/04/2023 1:08:16 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

I’m not venting, the preferred practice here, I am proposing.

If you can do better, do better.


13 posted on 01/04/2023 1:10:02 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
The one thing that has really irked me forever is the idea that we send all this money to DC in the form of taxes, only to have Congress send it back to the states as funded projects and pork with strings attached.

I'd like to see federal taxes reduced to keep the money in the respective states and then let the states tax their own residents to pay for the projects locally.

I recently heard a good argument to get rid of Congressional earmarks. The argument is that separation of powers gives the appropriation power to Congress and the spending power to the Executive. Congressional earmarks is really Congress appropriating the monies and then spending them, too, which is arguably unconstitutional.

-PJ

14 posted on 01/04/2023 1:13:20 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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If you can do better, do better.

Well, I'm not snooping into your profile page like a
perverted stalker, so I've got that going for me.

Why you so mad?

Are you pissed because you aren't allowed to submit proposals
before the House of Representatives? And that's MY fault some kind of way?

15 posted on 01/04/2023 1:13:39 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

I research things and people as a matter of course.

I believe in understanding things and people.

I believe in teaching others to understand things and I encourage others to try to understand things.


16 posted on 01/04/2023 1:16:38 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: humblegunner

“Why you so mad?”

My 64 years have taught me that anger is pointless.


17 posted on 01/04/2023 1:20:28 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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I believe in teaching others to understand things

Oh CRAP!

You think you are smarter than others and that they need
you to teach them because they so God-awful dumb?

Oh heck, you're a piece of work.

So how is it that you can cast yourself as superior to random
unknown persons on the internet that you have never met and know nothing about?

But you gonna TEACH 'em, huh?

Wow, look at you so superior and all without ANY data.

I'd keep that quiet. You might get profiled as a serial killer or something, mister superior.

18 posted on 01/04/2023 1:25:52 PM PST by humblegunner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

“In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article erroneously claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid.”

I was young at the time, but the firm belief that I should do something rather than rely on others was embedded in me back in 1964.


19 posted on 01/04/2023 1:26:01 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: humblegunner

Have studied for some 60 years has made me a fairly smart person.

And one can teach in the private sector without a government license.


20 posted on 01/04/2023 1:31:45 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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