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some highlights for those with short attention spans:
Not a partisan attack, as congressional Democrats and Obama were responsible for their share, although only Republicans will openly defend things like excessive military spending, income inequality, and tax cuts that benefit the rich and shift the burden to the middle and working class. Democrats like Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Schumer, etc. just go along with these things.
some highlights for those with short attention spans:
open bribery: the reason the GOP was so desperate to pass the tax bill, even though they barely had time to write the text of the bill was because the Kochs, et al threatened to yank all their support in the next election cycle if it didn't get done.
more:Instead of having short, publicly-funded political campaigns with limited and/or free advertising (as a number of Western European countries do), the US has long political campaigns in which candidates are dunned big bucks for advertising. They are therefore forced to spend much of their time fundraising, which is to say, seeking bribes.
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The campaign season should be shortened to 3 months (did we really need 2 years to get an outcome in which a fool like Trump is president?)
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The campaign season should be shortened to 3 months (did we really need 2 years to get an outcome in which a fool like Trump is president?)
The US military budget is bloated and enormous, bigger than the military budgets of the next twelve major states. What isn?t usually realized is that perhaps half of it is spent on outsourced services, not on the military. It is corporate welfare on a cosmic scale. I?ve seen with my own eyes how officers in the military get out and then form companies to sell things to their former colleagues still on the inside.
He goes on to cite private prisons & our incarceration rate, domestic spying and surveillance, and congress doing away with the bans on insider trading by its members as soon as the public stopped paying attention.Not a partisan attack, as congressional Democrats and Obama were responsible for their share, although only Republicans will openly defend things like excessive military spending, income inequality, and tax cuts that benefit the rich and shift the burden to the middle and working class. Democrats like Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Schumer, etc. just go along with these things.
