So who is it going to be and will we survive to the Election?
The election is months away and the actual exchange of office still further away. While almost the entire attention of the body politic is focused on the candidates and all the subplots regarding running mates and whom is unworthy and/or untrustworthy, the real work of the Republic goes undone and largely ignored.
The issues that go unaddressed include: Supreme Court vacancy - who can say that the Senate will consider a new justice candidate next year?, immigration reform - do something, gun violence, do something like allow research or issue gun locks for free or something positive, tax reform - duh, increase social security withholding eliminate the cut off for for withholding, healthcare reform - Obama care is working but will falter and fail if not fixed and the full promise of Medicare extension adopted.
Essentially, we are all be held hostage by the determination and fervent hope that a Republican President will sweep in office and set aside all that is "bad for America" and unburden the economy of all the weight of Social Security and Medicare, and Affordable health care, and food stamps, and women's reproductive rights, and nndiscriminatin towards minorities/LBGT, lifting financial regulations, etc. I suppose they might build a wall with all the savings and deputized the US Army to collect all the illegal immigrants and anchor baby/children and deport them to somewhere to be designated. Not sure what the new plan would be for dealing with terror and Middle East.
So, can we survive as a nation until the election and new administration is in place leading us again while dealing with the world at large?
Who wins the presidency is going to matter more than anytime in our history, it will be a defining moment and the potential turning point of our natin's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom from oppression, Liberty - Equal Treatment under the Law - the pursuit of Happiness.
I say it is more than who is elected to be the Presiden. We have seen how Congress can minimize the President's plans these past years. It is the Congress and the special rules and powers they have granted themselves to control their own members. They are in the complete thrall of money donations, obligated to spend hours outside the Halls of Congress begging for donations. They are controlled by the leadership with defieance bringing reduced support and memberships to committees. Congress is the root cause of these failing in governance. There is where the battle must be met and won if we are to function as a nation for the people by the people.
The issues that go unaddressed include: Supreme Court vacancy - who can say that the Senate will consider a new justice candidate next year?, immigration reform - do something, gun violence, do something like allow research or issue gun locks for free or something positive, tax reform - duh, increase social security withholding eliminate the cut off for for withholding, healthcare reform - Obama care is working but will falter and fail if not fixed and the full promise of Medicare extension adopted.
Essentially, we are all be held hostage by the determination and fervent hope that a Republican President will sweep in office and set aside all that is "bad for America" and unburden the economy of all the weight of Social Security and Medicare, and Affordable health care, and food stamps, and women's reproductive rights, and nndiscriminatin towards minorities/LBGT, lifting financial regulations, etc. I suppose they might build a wall with all the savings and deputized the US Army to collect all the illegal immigrants and anchor baby/children and deport them to somewhere to be designated. Not sure what the new plan would be for dealing with terror and Middle East.
So, can we survive as a nation until the election and new administration is in place leading us again while dealing with the world at large?
Who wins the presidency is going to matter more than anytime in our history, it will be a defining moment and the potential turning point of our natin's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom from oppression, Liberty - Equal Treatment under the Law - the pursuit of Happiness.
I say it is more than who is elected to be the Presiden. We have seen how Congress can minimize the President's plans these past years. It is the Congress and the special rules and powers they have granted themselves to control their own members. They are in the complete thrall of money donations, obligated to spend hours outside the Halls of Congress begging for donations. They are controlled by the leadership with defieance bringing reduced support and memberships to committees. Congress is the root cause of these failing in governance. There is where the battle must be met and won if we are to function as a nation for the people by the people.
You are more optimistic than I am. I do not think this election is a turning point for the country because the result will be more gridlock. I do not believe either Trump or Clinton have the force of talent and personality to make significant changes to our current system of gridlock in the Congress. The country is too polarized with the middle spectrum of society disappearing.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I am very confident that Trump will not win. Fortunately, he is doing that all by himself. The bigger issue is the Congress and the rules and procedures that allow them to essentially not do their job. No hearings on new supreme court justice. Loading bills with amendments and riders, etc., they make the rules to serve themselves. Money and soliciting money corrupts it all. The Congress should be term limited, their self serving rules eliminated, their salaries tied to actually doing their jobs, no appropriations and so on, no pay for them or their staffs. The Constitution provides for a circumstance whereby they do not do their job, use it.
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