(08-10-2017 09:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-10-2017 09:16 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(08-10-2017 08:22 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Another thought experiment. Every time someone in Congress decides to initiate a new program using tax dollars....they have to go into a random home with a gun and take the first dollar themselves from someone to fund it.

I'd settle for ensuring all Congress has to be on the Obamacare / Trumpcare / Deathcare plan they pass for the rest of us.

They technically are. But their "exchanges" have some options that ours don't.

I'd just make it so that congress, and indeed all of the federal bureaucracy, cannot exempt themselves from any requirements of any law generally regarding the rest of us, or take advantage of any benefits not generally available to the rest of us. Make them live real lives, and they would be more in touch with real people leading real lives.

$12K in free subsidies noone else with their salaries are entitled to, and insurance options on the small business market that no other company with more than 50 employees has access to means they have Obamacare in name only.

(08-10-2017 09:42 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-10-2017 09:16 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(08-10-2017 08:22 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Another thought experiment. Every time someone in Congress decides to initiate a new program using tax dollars....they have to go into a random home with a gun and take the first dollar themselves from someone to fund it.

I'd settle for ensuring all Congress has to be on the Obamacare / Trumpcare / Deathcare plan they pass for the rest of us.

They technically are. But their "exchanges" have some options that ours don't.

I'd just make it so that congress, and indeed all of the federal bureaucracy, cannot exempt themselves from any requirements of any law generally regarding the rest of us, or take advantage of any benefits not generally available to the rest of us. Make them live real lives, and they would be more in touch with real people leading real lives.

They can start with insider trading.......

Better idea, put the codes inside one of our enemies dressed up like Hitler and then see how quick it gets hacked out.

Dumb premise is dumb

(08-10-2017 09:28 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  

(08-10-2017 09:26 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  You need to have balances. We have an unbalanced and unhinged President. The fire and fury comment needs to be balanced with commentary such as this. The man is the Captain of the ship of fools and unfortunately I have been marooned.

Then you have nothing to fear for you are no longer on the ship.

What? Were you cemented to the floor in your house. You're no more marooned then I was when Oblunder was president. There's a shite load of other countries. With you intelligence that you keep reminding us of it should be no problem for you to earn a living anywhere.

I have been marooned.[/b]
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At first I thought you had written "I am a moron". I'm glad I went back and reread your post, I was going to agree to the moron part.