Posted on 02/01/2019 9:26:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Bipartisan indicates compromise. But remember, compromising with bad policy is like adding sewage to your drinking water.
Which is why we need TERM LIMITS and ALL POLITICAL DONATIONS TO BE ANONYMOUS. Can't sell influence if you don't know who's buying.
“Leave the government shut down, no deal on DACA AND build the wall. Win win win win.”
Keep the government open, build the “border fence in its entirety”, no deal on DACA or any other immigration stances the rats are taking and blame the Democrats for shutting down the government.
Neither of these will ever happen...both have been attempted and the corrupt system beat them back. Any system can be corrupted by a corrupt people. I believe we are beyond solutions that don’t destroy the existing corrupted system entirely.
“...ALL POLITICAL DONATIONS TO BE ANONYMOUS. ....”
I agree but how do you control/police that?
Maybe individuals give to the party it all goes into one account. It’s now mixed up with others therefore anonymous. Then the party doles it out?
I can see positives & negatives regarding that?
I do not want the government handing it out!
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable that I’m growing impatient with Trump. I know I’ll get attacked for saying it, but given the last 2 years, I don’t think there’s a great game of 3D chess going on. Trump has no options. Or at least none he’s willing to use.”
It’s bad. We have a full scale invasion going on and NOTHING is being done.
Our govt is FUBARed
A neutral party forwards the donations to those for whom they are intended. Americans should be allowed to donate as much as they wish to whatever candidate, officeholder or party they choose; that’s FREEDOM. But purchasing an outcome makes it bribery, a crime. Any attempt to communicate to the recipient the source of the funds or any attempt by the recipient to learn the source should be a felony.
Maybe the remnants of the IRS after the FairTax is instituted could be repurposed for that. Or of some other disbanded department, like the useless departments of energy, education, environmental protection...
Will people try to cheat? Sure. But a few of the violators publicly frogmarched into the courtroom will curb that.
Demwits -- consider your bluff called.
If enough of the public demand those reforms they will happen. The problem is getting people off their @$$e$ and into the streets.
Are we hopeful there are enough sane people left in this corrupt, sordid, deranged society to pull that off? It will take force.
So you want the FedGov to do it.
I remind you Lois Lerner came from the IRS. IRS part of the Treasure is chock full of radicalized TEU (Treasure Employee Union) members. Even after its been neutered, particularly neutered by something very unlikely to happen. (If I remember correctly FairTax is the consumption tax proposal. Something I support in theory! A lot of details need to be worked out!)
When it comes to politics there are no neutral parties not now, never has been! My point is acknowledge that, keep it simple. Make policeable by those who have an interest in the outcome. Place political party threshold maybe at 5% participation in last election (Maybe not even have a participation threshold) if people want to cheat they will cheat!
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable that I’m growing impatient with Trump.”
The Wall’s groundworks are already in progress. Trump wants to show how quickly he can get the wall built even after obstructions by the Dims. Remember how quickly he built Rockefeller Center—and under budget!
Wa?
People can't even stand up to the people that want to put grown men in a bathroom with their 10 year old daughter.
P4L
Not necessarily, that was just an idea to put SOME of the currently useless to work. I don't like the idea of creating a new agency when so many need to be eliminated. Maybe we should contract it out to private businesses.
...if people want to cheat they will cheat!
So, shall we give up on the wall, because there will be attempts to tunnel under it? Why lock your doors, as a determined criminal will just break the lock?
I think that was the skating rink at RC, not the whole center.
(that's what there going to say at this point. If it were a real emergency it would've been irresponsible to wait this long)
Both parties don’t want the wall.
But I think that the conventional reasons given are not the primary reasons. Sure, the Dems want more voters and the establishment GOP wants the cheap labor as a sop to big business interests. While true, that’s the fig leaf here.
The real reason is that Dims and Rinos have profited from drug and human trafficking for years. A wall would cut into those profits for the money laundering banks that pay off the pols and higher ups at DEA, FBI, CIA. Can’t stop that dark money. The Bushies, Clinton and 0bama were all a part of the action too. That’s why it was always easy for Dems like Schemer to talk tough knowing that no wall would be built.
Trump doesn’t need the payoff. But no doubt, he and his family been threatened by the banking and drug/ human trafficking interests.
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