Hunter Lou 1947 Loc: Minnesota

The cry babies of the GOP. They have only one thing in mind and that is to beat the President this fall. They don't give a hoot who in the process they hurt. You call these representatives our finest. Hell, they are going to destroy our government.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

P.S. There is no "former regime" - the phrase has been coined to identify the current president's administration. Prior to him there weren't "regimes" in this country.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Like the Democrats aren't doing that now ?....Sounds like you are crying with this post of yours.

jim charron Loc: Ontario Canada

Yo, Robert;

Do you think you can simplify this and be a little more blunt to make your point? :lol:

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

Neither. Pumping out the shit or raising the ceiling makes no difference because the shit is still in the system. We cannot go backwards and think doing so will solve new problems. We are trying to use 18th century economic models and applying them to the 21st. And we somehow think that to eliminate the crap all we have to do is get rid of one guy and put another in his place - people this crap we are dealing with transcends both parties - we are as they say - in a global economy

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

There of course is another solution, that would be to stay together and vote the Senate Dems and the president out, then we can not only stop all the bickering but start moving forward on a feasible plan to deal with the budgetary problems... the only people that stepped forward with plans to even start addressing these problems were swatted away as if they were pesky flies but the president and the democratic Senate that has so given up on fiscal issues that they refuse to produce budgets...

Simpson Bowles commission - swatted away, now just a spot on the wall

Gang of Six... totally blown off

Paul Ryan... accused of wanting to murder Grandma....

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

Ryan - accused of wanting to throw us all under the bus.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Better than being thrown off a fiscal cliff like the Dems are doing....

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

I keep hearing about this "fiscal cliff" when supposedly all our past economic mistakes and/or policy decisions (read bush tax cuts and the republican automatic budget cuts) meet and there is all this panic "oh my god were gonna fall off a fiscal cliff." I remember way back in the fall of last year. "Oh my god Moody's and S&P are gonna downgrade our credit worthiness - the sky is falling." Did it? So what if we fall of a fiscal cliff of our own making.....might shake and wake us up.

camerabuff58 Loc: Ontario, Canada,

Bang-on

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steve Loc: Iowa

Excellent!!!!

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

No party crap. They are NOT going to destroy our government ... OUR GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO DESTROY
OUR COUNTRY!

Bill Emmett Loc: Bow, New Hampshire

People in this country just don't see part of the problem. When I was working for the Fed. the popular trend was to contract out Government services. By contracting out, the cost of these services costs skyrocketed. Imagine, the Government owns a bulldozer, that cost $1,000,000.00 to bulldoze a project. Now the Government bulldozer is parked in a storage lot. Now, the Government wants to use the bulldozer to doze another project, and takes it the project and completes the work. The Goverment takes the dozer back to the storage lot. Each time the dozer goes to work, it is manned by a Government employee, who does other work when not running the bulldozer. As it is now, we have the Government dozer in the lot, and we now rent a bulldozer from company X, and pay a operator 300% for his wages, and pay company X $200,000 per day for using their dozer. Oh, the Government owned dozer is parked in a lot. Now lets look at real, honest to God situation unfolding the Mississippi River, in New Orleans. The Federal Government owns a Large Hopper Dredge the Dredge Wheeler. In the 1980s this dredge operated 270 days per year, the rest was taken for drydock repairs, and overhaul. The Government was lobbied long and hard by the Dredging Organization called NATCO. NATCO wanted more dredging time in the Mississippi River. So, the Hopper Dredge Wheeler, was tied up for 90 days per year so the NATCO dredges could take the contracts for the "River". The Dredge Wheeler was built to operate in the Mississippi River, first it is very large, it has 3 massive pumps to suck up the material, and place it into hoppers, and it is a fast dredge, capable of taking this dredged material to the dump site and return quickly. None of the private dredges can do this, first they don't have the capacity, speed, and quality, they break down frequently. U.S. Dredging contracts are probably the largest in the entire Government for a single service. A contract can be for 1/2 billion dollars for a section of the "River" So, when a sholl developes, the private companies bid on the area, and so does the Government. The bidding is rigged in the private sectors favor. A company can bid 25% above the Government estimate, and be considered the lowest bidder. The Wheeler, witch is a Government owned dredge, automaticly bids the Government estimate. Lets just say there is a 20,000,000 dollar contract let out for bid, private dredges could bid 25% higher, so the price, will be 25,000,000 million dollars, to the American Taxpayers. If by some slim chance the Dredge Wheeler won the contract, it could only charge the project 20 million dollars. But, since the Government owns the dredge, it cannot make a profit (Economy Act) after the fuel, repairs, and overhead are paid, the rest goes back to the Federal General Fund. This is part of the reason we are having trouble with the budget. Once the money is gone from the Government, it never returns. Presently, the Dredge Wheeler is thought of as "Emergency Dredge" only to be used when private dredges are not available, and remains parked at the Corps of Engineers dock, in New Orleans. I would like to know how many more "sweet heart" deals have been made like this one.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Perfect example of why so many people don't want to see the government raise taxes until they make issues such as these transparent and actually deal with them in a more business like manner instead of a political manner which invariably wastes federal dollars... It is hard to even call them taxpayer dollars anymore as a significant portion of federal spending is no longer funded by taxes....

Hunter Lou 1947 Loc: Minnesota

You must be in the upper 2%.