I Don't Believe This

Comment #6

eddessaknight — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:35:18 GMT

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”<br />? Benjamin Disraeli

Comment #5

grwurston — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:17:01 GMT

It does take practice. To become that good of a bulls**tter. The problem is too many believe it.

Comment #4

grwurston — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:09:11 GMT

Sounds good to me. But go back 30 years. 174k a year and now worth 100mill or more. How can we do that!!

Comment #3

jarasan — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:21:29 GMT

Trump made his fortune in Real Estate, now I want to see how members of the house and senate like peesloosli, cheney, joepedo, clintons, feinstein etc made their millions. Start with their tax returns for the past 20 years. How bout that?

Comment #2

jarasan — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:17:24 GMT

Term limits, someone was saying it takes practice to be a member of congress…. Bu11sh1t.

Comment #1

grwurston — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 07:25:23 GMT

Take a minute and think about that.<br />Now ask yourself this, How in the world does this happen? <br /><br />Answer. Because we the citizens keep voting the same people into office that continually do this sort of thing. We need to wise up and start making better choices on who we elect into office before they spend us into oblivion. If these people in office don't start working for we the people and our interests then they need to go.

Original Blog Entry: I Don't Believe This

grwurston — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 07:20:08 GMT

Remember back in 2010 when Nancy Pelosi said, We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.

Well it just happened again. This is what the new $1.7 trillion omnibus bill looks like.

4. No Lawmaker Has Read This Package

No member of Congress is physically able to read all of this spending package before voting on it.

In addition to the 12 regular appropriations bills, the omnibus bill includes two supplemental spending acts and 21 other separate divisions spanning topics as complex and varied as the Electoral Count Act, public land management, and antitrust enforcement.

As mentioned, the package contains 6,825 pages: 4,155 pages of legislative text plus 2,670 pages of explanatory materials that instruct agencies how to carry out the provisions and include at least 4,000 earmarks to pay for the pet projects of representatives and senators.

All totaled, this material is roughly twice as long as the Bible, and lawmakers planned to vote on it in fewer than four days.... [ More ]