Isabeau wrote: 
We already do. We spend more money on the military than any other nation - by a long shot. We have a fleet of ELEVEN giant aircraft carriers; the rest of the world's navies combined don't have that many - and almost all of them are supposed "allies." We could cut our military by 80% and still have enough to defend ourselves from.....?

House GOP Leaders Halt Debate On Austere Budget Measure
As GOP Rep. Calls Sequester 'Unrealistic And Ill-Conceived'

Right, No jobs bill. Again.

"Cuts in the House transportation measure were made deeper by a Republican move to cut an additional $40 billion from domestic programs and transfer the money to the Pentagon." 

So....More money for things the Pentagon doesn't even want.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/9/lawmakers-force-pentagon-to-buy-tanks-keep-ships-a/?page=all 
in a military that's already costs almost TWICE as much as the combined militaries of the next 10 highest-spending nations. 
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/16/298530/us-remains-worlds-top-military-spender/

We should be proud. We'll have the most tanks, ships, planes and richest weapons manufacturers in the industrial world....and, if this keeps up, the worst highways and bridges, the lousiest school, the highest unemployment, the sickest citizens and the hungriest kids.

...is a four-letter word.

 Isabeau wrote: 

Yea, saw that episode and it is downright frightening the incompetence of some of our elected representatives!

 Servo wrote: 
Maybe Obama should veto it.

 Umberdog wrote: 
What I found interesting was that the word "lunacy" was used to argue for this rather suspect legislation.    I wonder which particular piece of important legislation this bill is intended to disrupt.

Our great government in action. They should ban the word "ineffectual" too.

US Congress bans word 'lunatic' in federal legislation

 RASPUTIN wrote: 



actually, yes

 oldslabsides wrote: 


Would you prefer Episcopalian?

Apparently, our congressman's major qualification for high office is that he's a Baptist. Great. Just great.

 helenofjoy wrote: 
Caught your typo.

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Well said. Maybe if they had to read the bills, the bills would become more simple and easy to understand. Oh, but then the Congress people might have to actually work for a living.

130 Members of Congress Bought Stocks in Companies that Lobbied their Committees
by Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky
AllGov
June 27, 2012

Unwilling to impose rules on themselves that they have on others in government, 130 congressional lawmakers have invested in company stocks while making legislative decisions impacting the very same corporate interests.

Federal laws adopted by Congress forbid officials in the Executive Branch from trading stocks in industries overseen by their agencies. But the same restrictions don’t apply to lawmakers.

As a result, during a three-year span, representatives and senators, 68 Democrats and 62 Republicans, traded stocks valued between $85 million and $218 million in 323 companies registered to lobby on legislation that appeared before them, according to The Washington Post.

The Post found that more than 5,500 trades “intersected with legislation” that a company cared about.

In a classic example, the family of Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who has a net worth of approximately $300 million, bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in Thermo Fisher Scientific, which makes food contamination detection equipment, at a time that the Homeland Security Committee, of which McCaul was a member, was considering a food safety bill. The purchases were made while the company stock was selling for between $33.50 and $44 a share. The bill passed and the stock is now worth $50 a share...

Is There More to Sen. Snowe's Resignation Than Congress's "Crumbling Center"?

 mzpro5 wrote: 
They were calling their politicians monkeys in Slovakia.

I'm pretty sure ours are more like pigs. Eating up everything they can get their snouts on and rolling around in their own crap. Well, occasionally they act like monkeys, when they throw their crap at each other. A lot of them are also old and male-menopaused, so they don't want anyone to have sex either.

 cc_rider wrote: 



No one said it was a beauty contest. :)