If you're in government it's your responsibility to keep the government running. In most other countries if the government can't pass a budget then it's a vote of no confidence and we call another election immediately.
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So Democrats are the reason the House has been in session only 20 days in the last 4 months?
20 days? Wow. What is a typical number?
I wasn't sure so I went looking. It fluctuates, but 150 days a year is what I found. So that would be 50 days per 4 months. Or rather that they have shown up about 40% of the norm.
So for them this isn't even much different than normal. And they're still getting paid. Not that many of them need their government salary with all the campaign donations and insider trading. And guaranteed lobbying jobs at triple the salary or more after they're done.
Id say it's more than a bit different. It would be like if you or I started going into work Monday and Tuesday, and skipping Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Except yeah, they still get paid the same. To bad we couldn't all have jobs like that.
The crazy thing is, with the productivity improvements recently in human history, and the amount of time wasted doing what amounts to fluffing people higher up the chain with busy work or literally just sitting there work, we could all probably work notably less than we do if that work was spread equally and not wasted on bullshit like ensuring poor people feel bad.
Agreed, I think with automation and technological improvements the only way forward is to supplement people's livings based off loss of work at a national level. 200 years ago, 70% of the U.S. were farmers. 1900, 38%. 1925, ~25%. 2025, less than 2%. Sure we can say about 10% of jobs surround agriculture in some way, but that is a drastic amount of work that has been offset. If we have offset 50% of the required work needed to keep our country fed, clothed and roofed, we need to develop ways to cut the workload by half for the people, and find other activities people can partake in that aren't just about making someone else money.
I have some news for you:
Lol, guys an imbecile. Even if "millions were living in space somehow im 20 years it would have nothing but a bad effect on earth. Population growth has us set to be at 9.7 billion people in 2045 from 8.2 billion people now. So say you got 5,000,000 people in space, which we won't, you've got 1,495,000,000 more people using resources on earth, and us sending resources into space to build shit. The cost to mine resources and maintain life in space would be so much harder than doing so on Earth, yet we can't get Earth right. Terra-forming a planet is all but a myth to us at this point. We aren't making acute changes to a planet we have everything to do it with on currently. Yet they think they'll somehow convince people they can manipulate an entire planet/moon that has temperature fluctuations drastically more uninhabitable than earths. Everyone who moves to space will die, only an idiot would think otherwise. Why, because you can't make peace on earth. We are already trying to bring weapons to space. It takes one suicidal person to end their entire community in space. When have we ever known someone willing to sacrifice a life to serve a cause. Today, yesterday, the day before, for every year mankind has existed. If you don't create a peaceful utopia, it is certain death and a massive waste of resources.
and find other activities people can partake in that aren't just about making someone else money.
I can already think of a myuriad of things, though admittedly some would be surround eventually making money, but mostly because I want things to exist that don't exist.
Imagine working 2 days a week instead of 5. That's a pretty big difference.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Gotta put a space after the #
like this
To what end? What will it change? Do you think Trump will actually be held accountable? Do you think it'll make him lose the election?
They're willing to commit many FBI agents to redacting Trump's name from the files, they're willing to blatantly put their own careers at risk to lie to congress about it, they're willing to shut down the government and keep it shut down over it, and they refuse to swear in a newly elected Democrat from Arizona over it
Yeah, it may have some effect
Trump isn't actually the target of the files. It would put gop funding at risk at a level even greater than when they busted the NRA for being a Russian front.
They are doing it on purpose to keep Congress closed forever and Donald will HAVE to make all the decisions.
This is another project 2025 power play to take rights away from Democrats and non fascists.
I think it's time to go for a walk or something.
Has polling ever shown a majority blaming dems for any shutdown? This has been a republican tactic for a while now and it doesn't substantially hurt them. Why would they give a shit?
Love the republican we are doing nothing and its their fault. Such a modest ask to.
The more people are available to self-inform (spending cuts/layoffs) means the more they’re available for waking up. Brilliant strategy on the GOP’s part.
For every other time Republicans withhold their vote, in order to make demands, Democrats always give them what they want...and everyone calls them weak because of it.
Does it surprise anyone that Republicans don't want to look like Democrats?

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