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2016 Postmortem

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A Simple Game

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16. Your post points out the main reason we need to bring our Representatives and Senators back home.
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:13 PM
Feb 2016
Then they get to sit up there in Washington DC and and sit on their hands and do nothing.

Let's make them come home and hire local people for staff and live among the people they claim to represent. Then we'll see how long they dare sit on their hands! Let the people have access to them on a daily basis when they put corporations before constituents.

Let the local TV and newspaper reporters see how many lobbyists come to visit them and then compare their votes to the interests of the visitors they allow into their office.

There is no need for these people to gather in one spot and be a terrorists target. At least that sounds like a good excuse to break up the big boys club and make it harder for lobbyists to work on them wholesale.
Dare to Dream [View all] H2O Man Feb 2016 OP
The Youngin's get it. Wilms Feb 2016 #1
Thanks..... H2O Man Feb 2016 #4
As for typos... malthaussen Feb 2016 #10
Thanks .... H2O Man Feb 2016 #25
Politicians live in a bubble. They get paid with tax dollars. They get paid with liberal_at_heart Feb 2016 #2
Your post points out the main reason we need to bring our Representatives and Senators back home. A Simple Game Feb 2016 #16
Great point. H2O Man Feb 2016 #29
Well said! H2O Man Feb 2016 #28
Thank you. As always, you bring wisdom to our forum. myrna minx Feb 2016 #3
Thank you! H2O Man Feb 2016 #30
There's a powerful combo in play Hydra Feb 2016 #5
Right. H2O Man Feb 2016 #32
great post, but i really don't understand why we have to dare to dream elana i am Feb 2016 #6
Good question. H2O Man Feb 2016 #33
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one ms liberty Feb 2016 #7
Very good! H2O Man Feb 2016 #34
Where there is no vision, the people perish. Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #8
Right! H2O Man Feb 2016 #35
A big, fat K&R! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2016 #9
Thanks! H2O Man Feb 2016 #36
"too many Americans are living a cruel nightmare." Truth!!! RiverLover Feb 2016 #11
kick Schema Thing Feb 2016 #12
We've been tricked by tricksters. Gregorian Feb 2016 #13
It's STILL not trickling down. dchill Feb 2016 #14
Doesn't sound silly at all! RiverLover Feb 2016 #18
a sight forever etched on my brain antigop Feb 2016 #15
Sometimes it's hard to tell the dreamer from the dream. malthaussen Feb 2016 #17
One of your best, H2O Man Oilwellian Feb 2016 #19
What a wonderful op! cali Feb 2016 #20
Ode- by Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873 Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #21
Dreams are fine, but at the same time, we have to be pragmatic. Zorra Feb 2016 #22
Great story and great post! Fast Walker 52 Feb 2016 #23
Hopefully the political bubble is bursting this time lunatica Feb 2016 #24
Beautiful. MuseRider Feb 2016 #26
They went too far.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2016 #27
Kickin' & a Recken' 2banon Feb 2016 #31
K&R Punkingal Feb 2016 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author Sensitive soul Feb 2016 #38
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