Something really weird could be happening

dantes · 2018-10-10T21:10:25.546Z

It would seem that the vast majority of people who “get rich” while in Congress do so by marrying into money.

Nothing nefarious.

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T21:11:40.480Z

dantes:

It would seem that the vast majority of people who “get rich” while in Congress do so by marrying into money.

Nothing nefarious.

It would seem that most people elected to congress are already married.

Vigilante · 2018-10-10T21:36:00.705Z

altair1013:

Vigilante:

Mitch McConnell. Richest man in Senate from the poorest State. I know right?

Can you name any others?

Why.?

10 char.?

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T21:37:35.555Z

Vigilante:

Why.?

10 char.?

Why stop at McConnell?

SpacemanSpiff · 2018-10-10T21:40:12.602Z

gwhit:

Repealing a healthcare plan that was thought up by a conservative think tank but since it was not a GOP who signed it they hated it. Identity politics and Obama being black set off a lot of trigger in them. Many are still living in their bunkers holding out for when Obama comes with FEMA to cart them off to the Hobbit Holes to live in After he takes away their guns.

Lol! Ten letters

Vigilante · 2018-10-10T21:48:19.313Z

altair1013:

Vigilante:

Why.?

10 char.?

Why stop at McConnell?

Why stop what?

armycowboy · 2018-10-10T21:54:25.530Z

altair1013:

Why.?

10 char.?

Why stop at McConnell?

You could have done this yourself.

en.m.wikipedia.org

List of current members of the United States Congress by wealth

This list of members of the United States Congress by wealth includes the fifty richest members of Congress as of 2018. It displays the net worth (the difference between assets and liabilities) for the member and their immediate family, such as a spouse or dependent children. These figures offer only an estimation of wealth, as the Congressional financial disclosure rules use value ranges instead of exact amounts. As an upper range is not specified for values over $50 million (or over $1 mill

SentientBeing · 2018-10-10T21:56:15.102Z

I’ll shatter this myth piece by piece. The President’s “policies” of deficit spending aren’t the reason for the 5 year trend of the unemployment going down and the 5 year trend of black unemployment going down. ISIS goons were getting killed and driven out of their strongholds in Iraq long before Trump took office and his selection of Turkey foreign lobbyist Mike Flynn for NSA nearly sunk the plan to topple ISIS in Raqqa since Turkey was firmly against it and Flynn tried to deep six the plan of arming the Syrian Kurds (a plan the Obama administration put together and passed to Trump) Report: Flynn blocked US military plan that Turkey opposed | Fox News. After Flynn was ousted with that fake cover story that he “lied to Pence” (lol) Trump finally put the plan into action which worked. And that airstrike on Syrian/Russia airbase was probably the most expensive fireworks show in history because we basically hit nothing of importance and that airbase was operational again like a day later. I don’t like tax cuts fueled by deficit spending that we aren’t going to pay for (especially when the economy was already doing great and near full employment) while spending money like crazy. We’ve been down this road with Reagan and Bush already and people still haven’t learned yet. I’m also not for deregulation for the sake of deregulation. Since I don’t have your memory span of a gnat I remember where deregulation got us 10 years ago and it looks like we’re headed back that direction once again. Crazy times is when people actually fall for the Trump University sales pitch.

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T22:00:16.173Z

armycowboy:

You could have done this yourself.

en.m.wikipedia.org

List of current members of the United States Congress by wealth

This list of members of the United States Congress by wealth includes only the fifty richest current members of Congress and displays the difference between assets and liabilities for the member and his or her immediate family, such as a spouse or dependent children. These figures can never be entirely accurate, because the financial disclosure requirements for the United States Congress are approximate by design. The original documents for each member’s disclosure are publicly available on a

I could have. But why would I? I simply asked if someone was checking into McConnell why not check everyone? I’m not the one who started looking up net worth. My point still stands. They are not all filthy rich when they arrive, but they are all filthy rich when they leave. I really could not care less which one is the filthy richest.

DMK · 2018-10-10T22:08:02.733Z

Raise taxes. Grow government and regulations.

Raise taxes some more. Open the borders, provide welfare and medical for non-US Citizens.

Raise taxes some more. Free college and Universal Health Care.

Raise taxes some more. Watch business go back overseas and unemployment rise.

Raise taxes some more and extend unemployment benefits.

Sounds like a pretty good plan for some (as long as nothing affects them).

dantes · 2018-10-10T22:08:14.107Z

Who cares if they leave filthy rich? That’s none of your business.

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T22:09:31.874Z

dantes:

Who cares if they leave filthy rich? That’s none of your business.

Sorry dude. They are public servants. If they use there position to enrich themselves, it’s my business.

dantes · 2018-10-10T22:10:12.844Z

They aren’t using their positions to enrich themselves. They’re just marrying rich people. Look it up.

Vigilante · 2018-10-11T04:10:32.465Z

Hows it working out for Fat Donald?

Blackwolf · 2018-10-11T04:22:17.830Z

Anyone worried/hopeful about the Democrats actually taking advantage of the blunders of Donald and his merry band of GOPers next month should remember the wise words of Jeff Goldblum when he was asked if the party was capable of screwing this up:

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bullseyelqcs · 2018-10-11T04:39:00.752Z

Sing it loud, sing it proud…

I would love to say we will never forget the last mistake, but chances are, we will.

Vigilante · 2018-10-11T06:52:04.202Z

Of course. As do the Cons.

biggestal99 · 2018-10-11T11:48:31.271Z

altair1013:

Things are really good in the U.S. today.

Real wages are down for the middle class (wages increases - inflation)

Have you been to the gas pump recently.

any money gained via Trump Tax Reform bill is going to oil companies.

Allan

adroit · 2018-10-11T11:58:12.728Z

altair1013:

Chris:

Healthcare is the biggest reason why I am voting Democrat for Congress and Senate.

You do realize that the last time the dems decided to fiddle fart around with health care, premiums went way up?

During Obama’s presidency, healthcare expenditures actually increased at some of the lowest rates in history.

Jamerican · 2018-10-11T12:04:01.523Z

altair1013:

Have you ever seen anything like this? A political party could win an election without a platform. They are running against the President and his policies.

Yes! yes I have, Between January 19, 2009 and January 20, 2017.
This selective amnesia is amazing.
The first night as president, GOP leadership got together at the Caucus Room restaurant in DC and pretty much made blood oath to obstruct and make President Obama a one term president, which gave rise to the so-called Tea Party. Second term was spent obstructing and the only policy the GOP had in place was to waste tax payers money by doing over 50 symbolic and meaningless votes to repeal the ACA.