Re: Acts of domestic terrorism
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:26 pm
I agree the Dems will do historically bad. Covid, high gas prices, supply problems, divided nation, inflation, possible recession, on the verge of WWIII with Russia. Americans aren’t happy right now. Republicans will assume their victory was because people love Republicans and their policies. When they don’t do any better Americans will vote Dems in again and we will continue this game of musical chairs. Unless of course Trump is King of America and we no longer need elections.
Bill Maher had a point. People did scam the system and steal a lot of the money. It was meant to help America through the pandemic and of course America has become the land of lying, cheating, scams and fraud. I look at it as a shame something meant to help Americans got hijacked by scammers. In2ition looks at it as proof the government is bad. I also look at it and say how are these people getting away with scamming this much? I think we both could agree that rolling out something that huge that was that easily scammed wasn’t implemented very well. The money I got did help me through the pandemic. My wife and her partner that own a gymnastics club applied for Covid funds and were turned down.
We see things differently In2ition. I see our government as flawed just like every other government on planet earth. You see it as flawed too. I also see America as one of the best countries to live in. If we lived in Russia and wrote the things we write about aimed at their government we both would have been in prison or worse a long time ago. I have no doubt there is corruption in our government by both sides. I am pretty sure anyone with money can influence our politicians policy thinking. The thing is, I want to fix it. Your side seems to want to just tear it all down.
Our sides? What is that? Dem and Cons? If we are talking about both sides being corrupt from the top down then why are there even sides? What makes the Con side that is corrupt from the top down any less corrupt than the Dem side that is corrupt from the top down? Why are we even taking sides? Oh yeah, the talking points. Abortion, health care, immigration, taxes, freedom, LGBT, race, guns, religion, regulations, war. Those are important things and we may never see eye to eye on a lot of those. Dems and Cons aren’t united in caring about all those issues. My right wing brother cares about guns, freedom and couldn’t care any less about abortion or religion.
That all is important but, what is the issue with government seeming so corrupt? Did they design the Covid relief stuff to intentionally allow fraud or was it just rolled out in a hurry because struggling families needed help fast? Did a lot of people/businesses that did not need Covid relief apply for and get Covid funds while the small people like the local business owners got nothing on purpose or were the bigger fish just a lot faster on the draw and had a team of lawyers figuring out how to exploit the situation in their favor? So there is a fund made to do X but, the funds get used for Y instead? That happens all the time. How do we fix that?
So if both sides are corruptible and beholden to the highest bidder because of lobbying and whatever compensation then how is that remedied? Term limits? Get money out of politics? When you have to raise millions to get elected that’s a problem. I heard Washington doesn’t function without lobbyists. They are the experts politicians call in on any given subject and they are more than willing to give advice. Politics is power. Money and power always go together. Neither side will probably be interested in curbing anything that gets in the way of compensation.
I wanted to fix it before it broke. Some want to break it. I am afraid they have succeeded. Now what?
Bill Maher had a point. People did scam the system and steal a lot of the money. It was meant to help America through the pandemic and of course America has become the land of lying, cheating, scams and fraud. I look at it as a shame something meant to help Americans got hijacked by scammers. In2ition looks at it as proof the government is bad. I also look at it and say how are these people getting away with scamming this much? I think we both could agree that rolling out something that huge that was that easily scammed wasn’t implemented very well. The money I got did help me through the pandemic. My wife and her partner that own a gymnastics club applied for Covid funds and were turned down.
We see things differently In2ition. I see our government as flawed just like every other government on planet earth. You see it as flawed too. I also see America as one of the best countries to live in. If we lived in Russia and wrote the things we write about aimed at their government we both would have been in prison or worse a long time ago. I have no doubt there is corruption in our government by both sides. I am pretty sure anyone with money can influence our politicians policy thinking. The thing is, I want to fix it. Your side seems to want to just tear it all down.
Our sides? What is that? Dem and Cons? If we are talking about both sides being corrupt from the top down then why are there even sides? What makes the Con side that is corrupt from the top down any less corrupt than the Dem side that is corrupt from the top down? Why are we even taking sides? Oh yeah, the talking points. Abortion, health care, immigration, taxes, freedom, LGBT, race, guns, religion, regulations, war. Those are important things and we may never see eye to eye on a lot of those. Dems and Cons aren’t united in caring about all those issues. My right wing brother cares about guns, freedom and couldn’t care any less about abortion or religion.
That all is important but, what is the issue with government seeming so corrupt? Did they design the Covid relief stuff to intentionally allow fraud or was it just rolled out in a hurry because struggling families needed help fast? Did a lot of people/businesses that did not need Covid relief apply for and get Covid funds while the small people like the local business owners got nothing on purpose or were the bigger fish just a lot faster on the draw and had a team of lawyers figuring out how to exploit the situation in their favor? So there is a fund made to do X but, the funds get used for Y instead? That happens all the time. How do we fix that?
So if both sides are corruptible and beholden to the highest bidder because of lobbying and whatever compensation then how is that remedied? Term limits? Get money out of politics? When you have to raise millions to get elected that’s a problem. I heard Washington doesn’t function without lobbyists. They are the experts politicians call in on any given subject and they are more than willing to give advice. Politics is power. Money and power always go together. Neither side will probably be interested in curbing anything that gets in the way of compensation.
I wanted to fix it before it broke. Some want to break it. I am afraid they have succeeded. Now what?