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The middle class is still suffering from the policies the GOP put in place when they held both houses and the presidency. After the 2000 recession when Republicans swept into office, they did nothing to help anyone but the rich. You know that. Everything the GOP did during the Bush years only helped the rich. And then at the end of Bush's 8 years it all fell apart.you have a lot of patience to not have "that one" on ignore. He's an ideologue through & through, facts be damnedSorry Bubba, Forgot you NEVER accept reality
Madison himself:
I would propose next that in addition to the present federal powers, the national Government should be armed with positive and compleat authority in all cases which require uniformity; such as the regulation of trade, including the right of taxing both exports & imports, the fixing the terms and forms of naturalization, &c &c.
Over and above this positive power, a negative in all cases whatsoever on the legislative acts of the States, as heretofore exercised by the Kingly prerogative, appears to me to be absolutely necessary, and to be the least possible encroachment on the State jurisdictions. Without this defensive power, every positive power that can be given on paper will be evaded & defeated.
The States will continue to invade the national jurisdiction, to violate treaties and the law of nations & to harrass each other with rival and spiteful measures dictated by mistaken views of interest. Another happy effect of this prerogative would be its controul on the internal vicisitudes of State policy; and the aggressions of interested majorities on the rights of minorities and of individuals
Federal v. Consolidated Government James Madison to George Washington
Thanks for making my case.
Gawd, you're insane Bubba. I thought EddieB was badNeedless to say, he didn't progress very far in school no doubt.
As to the OP, the GOP works for a small group of people and NO, it isn't the middle-class.
You know what, Dottie? I've been hearing this same refrain from you Progressives for the better part of a decade now...how you are the champions of the Middle Class and how the GOP only cares about the wealthy...yet under two terms of an Administration that is dominated by progressives the Middle Class has taken a beating and the wealthy have gotten wealthier. So why is that? Are you guys just totally clueless when it comes to "doing" rather than talking...is it all nothing more than political posturing...or a combination of the two?
To be quite blunt...with you guys "working" for the Middle Class...there won't BE a Middle Class much longer!
And then Republicans attempted to block anything that would help the economy. The GOP hoped that if they obstructed and fucked everything up, people wouldn't vote and the crazies would elect the GOP into office. And they did. Republicans hope to finish the job they started under Bush. The Republicans have become a terrorist organization. I suspect that the middle class will eventually get their nose out of Kim Kardashian's butt and wake up. It will become a matter of survival as a nation. The GOP must be defeated.
Took a big step backwards....eh, dorkles.
To bad. If there was another house in congress....we'd take that from you too.
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