- Tue May 26, 2020 6:14 am
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My "Broken Promises" post seems to have hit a nerve with Forbes, He is posting tons of faux posts with similar titles. Sorry John.
I have been against Trump since the day he announced his intention to run. It was obvious to me the type of person he was. He is someone who I could never accept as my President. Before he started his run for the presidency I was a lifelong Republican. Right after the election I changed my affiliation to Independent.
Here are a few thoughts for John and Silly to pick on. Silly...what an appropriate moniker.
a. Trump ( and the Tea Party before him) have changed the GOP into something I can't recognize. The party stood for fiscal responsibility and the national debt was always too high to them. . Today, anything goes as long as the elite get their tax breaks.
b. THE ELITE! Our founding fathers were terrified that an elite class resembling the European aristocracy could emerge in this country. Taxes were placed on those that had the means to support the country and taxes on inheritance were meant to ensure that no family would gain enough money and power to become rulers of this country. I have thought that the idea of an inheritance tax was sound but the administration of it was flawed,.
c. The Constitution was always in-violent and any challenges to the Constitution were always to ensure that the Constitution as written by the founding fathers remained pure. Today,the challenges are for the purpose of bettering the few.
d. Our government was set up to be three separate but equal branches. today Congress has ceded much of its powers to the President. I feel that Mitch McConnell is attempting to make the Presidency into the total ruler of the country. this can only end badly in my opinion.
e. There is nothing in our Constitution setting the Number of Supreme Court Justices. In the past, it has been as high as ten and as low as five. It is Congress that sets the number of Justices. If the Democrats win the Senate and the House in 2020, I think that they will set the number of Justices at 11 to water down what McConnell has done to pack the Court. After that Chaos (with a capital C) will reign in the future.
I have to go to work. I will post more later as I have many thoughts about what is happening to this country. I hope that you can see that I will never follow any president blindly. To do so would be a slap in the face to all citizens and to my heirs.
I have been against Trump since the day he announced his intention to run. It was obvious to me the type of person he was. He is someone who I could never accept as my President. Before he started his run for the presidency I was a lifelong Republican. Right after the election I changed my affiliation to Independent.
Here are a few thoughts for John and Silly to pick on. Silly...what an appropriate moniker.
a. Trump ( and the Tea Party before him) have changed the GOP into something I can't recognize. The party stood for fiscal responsibility and the national debt was always too high to them. . Today, anything goes as long as the elite get their tax breaks.
b. THE ELITE! Our founding fathers were terrified that an elite class resembling the European aristocracy could emerge in this country. Taxes were placed on those that had the means to support the country and taxes on inheritance were meant to ensure that no family would gain enough money and power to become rulers of this country. I have thought that the idea of an inheritance tax was sound but the administration of it was flawed,.
c. The Constitution was always in-violent and any challenges to the Constitution were always to ensure that the Constitution as written by the founding fathers remained pure. Today,the challenges are for the purpose of bettering the few.
d. Our government was set up to be three separate but equal branches. today Congress has ceded much of its powers to the President. I feel that Mitch McConnell is attempting to make the Presidency into the total ruler of the country. this can only end badly in my opinion.
e. There is nothing in our Constitution setting the Number of Supreme Court Justices. In the past, it has been as high as ten and as low as five. It is Congress that sets the number of Justices. If the Democrats win the Senate and the House in 2020, I think that they will set the number of Justices at 11 to water down what McConnell has done to pack the Court. After that Chaos (with a capital C) will reign in the future.
I have to go to work. I will post more later as I have many thoughts about what is happening to this country. I hope that you can see that I will never follow any president blindly. To do so would be a slap in the face to all citizens and to my heirs.