well lets see what happens after the stupid uppity shit he pulled last night about that Megan Kelly lady......

he kind of unglued and maybe just ruined his win over her in the debate.......

he is a lose cannon......

 

I saw it as Megan tried to Romney his ass, and she got Trumped. She was visibly shaken after that.
Anybody hear Rosie's rebuttal?

 

So, you are saying the founding fathers set the country up to fail.

 

that was the night of the debate....

I am talking last night....Trump piled on....

Donald Trump's 'blood' comment about Megyn Kelly draws outrage

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/donald-trump-cnn-megyn-kelly-comment/

 

Thanks Randy.

 

Hahaha. Thanks for the laugh big guy.

 

Yes, I completely understand all of this as per the Dodd Frank act and SIFI regulatory testing. All SIFIs and GSIIs are required by law to file these hypothetical plans of reorganization including discovery reviews target examinations and continuous monitoring. Would you like me to continue to go on? With that being said I understand chp 7 and 11.

Guess I don't know squat about business. Lol

 

A wise man once said: "A man who claims to know it all, knows very little indeed".

Never said that you knew squat about business, but I am saying that you can not possibly know everything there is to know. Although, I'm pretty sure that someone with two graduate degrees in business would know just about all they "needed" to know about their fields of study. A corporate lawyer is going to know one hell of alot more about business law than you, unless of course, you have a law degree as well.

But then, you would be ridgerunner.

 

Ok, I'm a man and can admit when I'm wrong so perhaps I don't know EVERYTHING there is to know, but I don't know what I don't know.

 

I don't know but is it you don't know that you don't know?

 

There y go

 

NOPE, they set this country up as a Constitutional Republic, that in itself, never fails.

 

That's perfectly alright with me, not that this actually matters.

 

Except when it devolves into an oligarchy...

 

I don't think we want government run primarily along business model lines;
A business is in business to make money.
A government exists to provide common security and a legal structure.

But, we can eliminate the fraud and waste in government if we have the will and demand it of our leaders. We will need nothing less than a sea change in government employee attitude, from "it isn't real money so who gives a damn" to "I am the shepherd of my countries money; I will make every nickel shit pennies."

Let me give you an example. Many know that my Dad recently had a stroke while he was visiting us in Arizona. As a veteran, he is entitled to treatment at VA hospitals, and that's where we took him. He's 91, a WWII vet, legally blind, has had 3 open heart surgeries, a pace maker, and is hard of hearing. He is considered profoundly disabled by the VA, even though until his stroke her regularly walked 5 blocks to ride the bus (his stretch limo as he puts it) and went pretty much wherever he damn well pleased.
I will say at the outset that the treatment he has received through the VA has been excellent; better (much better) than I get from my Doctor.
We were talking about his having left his walker in Denver, and that we'd need to get it down here or rent him one when he was discharged. The nurse heard, and before you can say hospital jello a physical therapist was talking to us, evaluating my dad's physical ability and in the end said he was going to order not only a walker like the one my Dad had in Denver, but a second one for use inside the house, and a wheel chair. When my wife and I were debating what kind of chair (who knew there were so many damn types of chairs?) the therapist said what the hell, let's get him two of those as well. You know, one for around the house and one for when he goes out.
We declined everything but the walker like the one he already has.
Later, the audiologist was checking to see if his hearing was effected by the stroke, and in the process determined that his hearing aids were "old" (Dad hates the things and refuses to wear them unless coerced) and ordered him a new set. A really, really nice set of hearing aids.
We declined, since his old ones worked just fine. When we could get him to wear them.
He uses a CPAP machine to breathe at night. They suggested we bring his in to use while he was in the hospital since it was set to his needs. It's an old one, but works just fine.
The respiratory folks took one look and ordered him a fancy new one, a very expensive new one, and what the hell, as long as he was traveling when he had his stroke, a portable CPAP as well. You know, in case he wanted to travel some more. Eventually. When he's able to travel again. Someday.
We did accept the new CPAP because the old one really was a noisy old dinosaur but declined the portable one because the new one was pretty damn small anyway.
Dad mentioned that sometimes during the day he gets short of breath; you know, mainly when he's hiking it 5 blocks to catch the bus.
Before we knew it they were fitting him out with a portable oxygen system, a home oxygen system, and an "accumulator".
We declined. Or, rather, he told them to "take that damn heavy ugly son of a bitch out of here"

Now like I said, he's getting excellent care through the VA and we very much appreciate it. All he has to say is "I sometimes wish ......... and the VA is shitting equipment. We appreciate it. They are skilled, caring, and doing all they can to get my dad back to normal. Whatever that is when you're 91 and have a stroke.

But, by my count they have offered him better than $15,000 in equipment he neither wants or really needs. And he's accepted probably $4,000 in equipment that does make it easier for him, but isn't absolutely needed.

Multiply that by all the other times it happens daily, times all the days, a all of the VA hospitals and clinics in the nation and you begin to realize there's a lot of damn money being spent that could be put to better use.

Except the blind counselor stopped by the other day and took a look at my dad's magnifier (a monster machine that he uses to read mail, and the paper and so forth, one painful word at a time) and said they'd "upgrade' him. To a new unit that includes a 72" curved screen HD TV that I know costs probably $4,000 retail. You know, so he can read his mail two painful words at a time.
I'm tempted. I mean, football season is coming up soon and all.

The point is, there's a lot of waste and fraud in government. It can't be fixed by legislation. It can't be fixed with new rules and regulations. It can only be fixed if every Government employee, at every level, every day, changes their attitude about what it is they're spending. And why.

 

Actually, they set the government up to be almost non-existent, or at least virtually invisible, except in times of trouble, like war (and certain other special circumstances). Maidson stressed that over and over. But like he says about encroachments....

http://forloveofgodandcountry.com/2...les-the-beginning-of-the-american-experiment/

In The Federalist No. 45, James Madison explained the division of sovereignty and power: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.”

Also in 45:
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government. The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States.

In The Federalist No. 31, Alexander Hamilton wrote: “The State governments, by their original constitutions, are invested with complete sovereignty….. As in republics, strength is always on the side of the people, and as there are weighty reasons to induce a belief that the State governments will commonly possess most influence over them… (We must) confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the Constitution. Everything beyond this must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the State governments.”

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Just saw a bit of Trump on news.

Looks tantamount to shooting ones self in foot.

Upsetting half the population , mothers , wives , daughters etc. is not a good way to win friends I recon.
Add them to the growing list he's putting off side , mm , I think I'm downgrading his chances.
Getting "deinvited" to events wont help any.
the cannon might be just a bit to loose


edit; just heard it is 53% of your population [female]

 

They wrote for a different time and a different country. The U.S. population was about 3.5 million, and largely agricultural. Why should we care terribly about what they wrote?

Also, the Constitutional Convention was not called to reduce the power of the central government, but to increase it. The Articles of Confederation produced a government that was too weak.

 

OH, do you know the history of this nation? This nation was set up as a Constitutional Republic, not an oligarchy, not a democracy, not a monarchy.

The U.S. Constitution is LAW, Laws that were to be defended and upheld by the elected politicians and the Supreme courts, the U.S. Constitution was written and adopted to protect the people from an OVER BEARING CENTRAL FUCKING GOVERNMENT.

Why on Earth does this always need to be pointed out to you?, obviously, because you haven't a small clue of what this nation stands for.

Such a boring predictable troll you have become over the years.

AND. . . you still have not brought to the table an answer that I had asked you a couple of weeks ago, '' what problems are we facing today, that the founding fathers faced during their era, the era in which the U.S. Constitution was written, that you claim, today we face many more problems, and the U.S. Constitution is now null and void, just a set of guidelines that can be ignored at any ones free will. . . .give me those problems , CAN YOU?

 

It can be predicted that what I say is true. The claim that the United States is "a republic, not a democracy," is boring, and not true. There is no contradiction between a republic and a democracy. The United States is both.

Since the Constitutional Constitution in 1787 the federal government has become much more powerful because most of the voters have wanted it to become more powerful.