Wow.....

interesting, and while i don't necessarily agree with you on some thing i like how you explained it bravo :) and thanks

i feel people already know this but um most of the big media networks are owned by like 5 or 6 trillionaires/billionaires that probably instruct there networks on what stance to take with each candidate

Glad you liked it. I'm not sure where you disagree, but I'd like to hear your viewpoint, since as the proverb says, as iron sharpeneth iron, so do the minds of friends sharpen each other.
I don't like to build a theory on one verse either, as that is like an upside-down pyramid - not stable. Here is another interesting thing. The title of the pope is Vicarious Filii Dei, which Latin for the vicarious son of God. You'll still hear him called the Vicar of Christ. The title is on some of the older mitres (Fish hat) they used to wear. If one knows numerology, or looks it up in any good encyclopedia under Roman Alphabet, they will know V=5, I=1, C=100, D=500, L=50, and U also = 5. The other letters in that title don't have any values, but if we take Vicarious, and do the numerology on it, we get 112. Filii = 53. Dei = 501. 112+53+501=666. This is the best explanation for the number I've heard so far, and I've heard or read a bunch of them. If you have a better explanation, I'd like to hear it.

Well, I'm not really sure that any sort of compromise is what this country needs right now. Not when they consider compromise as something akin to "heck, we can't pass the budget because we want to spend a LOT more than we are pulling in, so let's pass a 'mini budget' compromise every few months that will get us the same thing but make us look like we ARE trying".... :rolleyes:

So here's the dilemma. They aren't willing to cut spending because too many people are now dependent upon the freebies that the government hands out, and if they pull that rug out from under people, it will cost them dearly in the next election. They can't raise taxes because so many people are really struggling financially, so raising taxes will just add insult to quite a bit of injury, and that will cost them dearly in the next election. Many businesses of all sizes are already hurting from permits and regulations, not to mention taxes that they have to pass onto consumers, which makes their products uncompetitive against Chinese imports, so the government trying to grab more money that will will be rather unpopular and cost them dearly in the next election. They can't just do nothing because the economy is a ticking time bomb that gets closer to exploding every day, and ignoring that (you guessed it!) will cost them dearly in the next election.

I expect that much of future legislation will be passed merely on voice votes as much as they can, because that makes them all unaccountable for what is passed. They can ALWAYS say that they didn't raise their voice to vote for it.

Every society goes through a cycle of 6 stages. It begins in bondage, and with bondage comes courage. Courage eventually turns into revolt, and if the revolt is successful, then the next stage is liberty, but if the revolt is not a success, it's back to step 1, or bondage. After liberty, it gets productive and this leads into the next stage, abundance. That stage would lead one to think people would be gratuitous, but they are quite the opposite, they become greedy, and that eventually leads to a decline and back to step 1 again.
Where is the USA now? I would put us between abundance (look how many people are obese) and bondage.

Try this:

Here's a graphic illustration of our debt some of you may have seen:
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