HAVE you ever wondered why the changes in policy in our government are so few and far between? And why the BAD policies that hurt the most people and enrich the few are so HARD to change? We have a LEADER, true, and he has a cabinet and a large group of advisors.... then we have an elected congress... made up of two SENATORS from each of the fifty states, and representatives elected according to population of each state, known as the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. These are a conglomerate of Republican leaning people, Democratic believing persons and some independents, or wild men. This LEADER, or President, and his group have a plan, which they present to the governing body; the congress... and eventually, if they can come together with a compromise of how they will implement this plan, then someone poses a bill and presents it... they all vote on it, and the president either signs it into law, or vetoes it.
That is a LOT easier to write and grasp than it is to HAPPEN.
I have often wondered WHY would citizens vote for a candidate just because he SAID something that sounded good, and that he had a good looking presence and presented well (not really paying attention to the quality of the promises and rhetoric, but just LIKING the person). Then, in all my reading and investigation of the 'deals' and compromises in the government, I find that the law makers do the same thing!! They often go along with a plan, and endorse a friends bill just because he said it was good and that it would do all he claims. But they go on collecting their salary, sitting in their high seat and never investigate whether this will work out or not... insofar as they COULD investigate.
We are back to the CAMPAIGN trail again. Now the candidates WISH they had not swallowed the vast information floated about why we needed to stop Saddam Hussein and needed a war in Iraq. Or they wish they knew MORE about what is going on in Iran and North Korea.
It seems that no one but Donald Trump wants to put American lives on the line fighting ISIS, but his LOUD boast is that he plans to have the biggest and most fearsome military in the world, enough to SCARE off anyone. As a single man, and family... he has had the funds to have bodyguards and care takers to keep the enemy off his privacy and goods. But does he realize that he is trying to this for a COUNTRY....? A very large body of land, where the airways are riddled with rays from internet, from satellite emissions and photography? Not to mention how many ports are on waterways, and how many planes come and go daily. And that would be a VAST number of people to screen to trust to do ALL the government ordered.
They don 't do it now, why would he think they will do it for him? He says you just have to be tough... does Donald Trump really think the noise of his tongue is TOUGH? Like all others it is just 'solo' opinion. Louder maybe, but just as easy to dismiss. And his crowds are a smattering of the whole of the US citizenry.
It seems that Bernie Sanders is trying to take a page from Trump. To 'win' is just to trumpet LOUDLY that you are the best and that you are WINNING. It stirs up the excitable, but even they will get feet back on the ground by the time to vote in November; they will look at the shaky little white haired man that has NO grip on foreign policy, and is beloved because he wants the electorate to gather together and pay MILLIONS to put kids into college for free... and the doctors to treat EVERYONE who is ill at a price they can pay. Those are wonderful things if they were doable. But with the crumbling infrastructure of our states, and the lack of organization to do anything about it, about a third of the college kids would be killed or mangled on the roads and bridges trying to GET to school..
What Bernie Sanders has not said anything about, is the hundreds of students who have no money to EAT, and not a dime for a vehicle or gas. who will pay for those? Getting an education is more than the cost of tuition. Like I remember when I left high school and was late getting a diploma, simply because I did not have any shoes or a coat. I could not go to school with no clothes. So I went to work to buy them for myself- in a sweatshop ran by Jews in Atlanta, paying me 19 dollars a week for 40 hours of labor. I went back to a tech school later and finished high school and then went to college by the generosity of two lady friends who paid my tuition. (which was a drop in the bucket compared to today). It meant a lot to me!
The person who presides over out government means a lot to me also. I did not vote for Obama, but I recognize that he had done some good things for the working man. And I will vote democratic unless by some miracle, a CANDIDATE drops from the sky in the Repub race that is qualified.
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