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114 Democrats and 164 Republicans Vote Against Leaving Afghanistan ... EVER
Here's the roll call. But the military has to video its interrogations, and the School of the Assassins has to say who attends it ... in the future only of course. And that is if any of this survives the Senate. Tom Andrews says White House and "leadership" pressured hard to block the requirement to have a plan to ever leave Afghanistan. another Andrews, the congressman, lied to his constituents that he would vote yes.
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278 Congress-critters love war, 114 of which are Democrats. Of course, we've always known the Repugs love war and almost as many Democrats love war, too -- unending war. Or, there is something in war for each of the 278 who voted against the McGovern bill?
I guess this is a clear example of why we get NOWHERE when we've tried over and over to stop the wars - it would go against the will of Congress largely!
Our system is so screwed up -- we need to find a way to crack this system of ours -- it stinks and it doesn't work, and hasn't worked for a long time now -- it has simply gotten worse and worse with the time.
From: Congress Does Exactly What They Want To Do
by Natasha Chart:
“They genuinely don't see what's wrong with what they're doing.
That goes for the non-citizens that they don't mind bombing and torturing. That goes for the citizens whom they're unbothered to see homeless, sick, penniless, humiliated and crushed with impunity by corporate monopolists and liars.
They just. Don't. Care.
And what else am I supposed to think of people who go to work in the clean comfort of the Capitol buildings, surrounded by polite, well-dressed people, provided with good salaries and fine health care, who then go on to approve of crimes against the social compact that most ordinary people would feel transgressive even to consider participating in?
These are some pampered m*f*ers, and they have so little mercy and decency towards their fellow citizens that I can barely understand how they aren't wracked constantly by shame and guilt. But evidence indicates that they aren't, usually indicating some powerful rationalizing. They know just as much as I do, and probably more, about the harm their actions cause and yet they go ahead because they have a story they tell themselves that makes it okay.” End of quote.
Ok, so what do we do in regards to this bastard of a system? We need to continue to rant and rail against it for it is only a matter of time before it breaks. The elites and oligarchs have badly mauled our money system. In a cooperative society where our well being depends on the labor of many others, money as a store of value is a means of survival and when it is abused to the point of being nearly useless or meaningless – then bad things happen.
So how does an economy keep on operating with no money? Well, in Zimbabwe, the local poor-folks have been begging from foreign sources and furiously digging flakes of gold from the rivers, but the more well-heeled have adapted, and as Golf Digest reports, “Despite hyperinflation, cholera and hugely unpopular President Robert Mugabe, golf survives in Zimbabwe. At Bulawayo Golf Club (founded in 1895), members have been paying with gasoline because local banknotes are worthless.”
America’s current directions and policies are unsustainable, it’s NOT all good out there and all 533 clueless members [Kucinich and Paul – the exceptions] of Congress are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.