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13 weeks ago @ Big Government - A Late Candidate Whose... · 0 replies · +18 points
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So, what is "Job 1?"
In the only political science class that I took in college, "Job 1" for the politician was defined as getting re-elected during the next cycle. Let's face it: Congressional Representatives brag about the money they "bring home to their districts," not how much they are going to cut from our future obligations - too few people understand that concept.
Because "Job 1" is so important, we rarely get citizen representatives that serve and go home. The only place that works in the armed services.
It's time for a constitutional amendment defining TERM LIMITS and retrocatively limiting pay and retirement benefits for all members of Congress.
52 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Top 25 Greatest Christ... · 1 reply · +1 points
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55 weeks ago @ Big Government - Wednesday Open Thread:... · 1 reply · +23 points
Take 1 principalled soldier and put him in a place where he MUST choose the lesser of two evils - Fighting for the country/government he loves or fighting for the friends/family/neighbors he loves. Lee decided that the fovernment overstepped its bounds and he would have to oppose it.
Taking the sons of the rag-tagged farmers and frontiersmen that won the Revolutionary War (in the South) some 80 years earlier, Lee gave the war his best shot against an industrialized North. Out gunned, but rarely out smarted, he kept lesser Generals busy for years. Finally defeated, he surrendered with dignity, only to be labelled as a traitor, have his ancestoral home, family name and citizenship removed from him.
Many know that Lee lost his citizenship (recently restored 135 years after his death). Fewer know that his ancesteral home Arlington was confiscated to become a National Cemetary. Fewer still remember Lee as a Union General, up to 1861 and a successful soldier in the campaign from Veracruz to Mexico City. And a small number might recognize his father, "Light Horse" Harry Lee as a Revolutionary War hero.
58 weeks ago @ Big Government - Troubled Teens Born in... · 0 replies · +5 points
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