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Kill the Alligators, Then Drain the Swamp
Front Page Magazine ^ | 8-2-17 | Bruce Thornton

Posted on 08/02/2017 8:10:09 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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1 posted on 08/02/2017 8:10:09 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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There’s nothing to keep Congress from abolishing unions for federal employees, which were created 55 years ago by John Kennedy through an executive order.

If they were created by an Executive Order, why do we need Congress to abolish them? Why not just use a pen?

2 posted on 08/02/2017 8:15:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

DO, don’t talk.


3 posted on 08/02/2017 8:16:11 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Indeed.

CW-II.
It’s not just for the nineteenth century anymore.


4 posted on 08/02/2017 8:16:17 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Cockroaches, all of ‘em...


5 posted on 08/02/2017 8:17:51 AM PDT by LIConFem
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To: afraidfortherepublic

President Trump should issue an Executive order repealing order #10988 signed by Kennedy authorizing public sector unions. Outlaw them in one fell swoop and be done with this nonsense.


6 posted on 08/02/2017 8:18:23 AM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Nail on the head. Even the FBI, CIA and new national security bureaus, from the top on down, are 90% bureaucrats. So are most of the military top brass, unfortunately.
This unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic establishment MUST BE SHAKEN UP; they are being exposed for who they are by President Trump, and they are squealing like pigs as he tightens the screws on them. Right now, they have the upper hand (because they are mostly still invisible saboteurs); but if he will persist for his whole term and the next one, I think he might be able to fumigate the damn thing, even if he can’t quite drain it altogether.
This is why I’ve been in his corner this whole time: I knew he was the only person who could have plowed the ground he is plowing.
Prayers that he is able to persevere.


7 posted on 08/02/2017 8:21:22 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I think that those are Crock's not Haters.
8 posted on 08/02/2017 8:23:22 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Of course, many of these D.C. denizens of the establishment are permanent dwellers in the swamp, beyond the reach of the president or even Congress.”

No one is beyond the reach of the president.


9 posted on 08/02/2017 8:24:19 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; sheik yerbouty; flat; unkus; vette6387; ZULU; Foolsgold; Kaslin; ...

Calling it a Swamp is far too generous! It’s a “Sewer” with treasonous feces floating and clogging up our country while trying to steal our freedom or what is left of our freedom.


10 posted on 08/02/2017 8:24:51 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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“As for Congress, it could pass legislation changing the laws that make federal employees almost untouchable.”

Enabling acts are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court should strike down the entire CFR.


11 posted on 08/02/2017 8:26:23 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
There is only one "Swamp"


12 posted on 08/02/2017 8:26:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Take away DC’s sanctuary status for swamp things.


13 posted on 08/02/2017 8:27:45 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Kill the Alligators

It is difficult to drain the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators.

14 posted on 08/02/2017 8:29:09 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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To: ClearCase_guy
If they were created by an Executive Order, why do we need Congress to abolish them? Why not just use a pen?

With the aid of the title, I tweeted a shortened version of your question to President Trumo a few minutes ago. IMO, these tweets to him are like messages in a bottle - maybe they'll be acted on, maybe not, but just maybe, someone will see it and say "Hey, I wonder if . . .?"

15 posted on 08/02/2017 8:29:21 AM PDT by Oatka
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Trumo = Trump (groan).

I state the obvious because someone will point it out.

16 posted on 08/02/2017 8:32:07 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Yeh!
So I say flush, no, power-flush the sewer/swamp!

Semper FLUSH!
;)
*****


17 posted on 08/02/2017 8:39:12 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The first ones to go must be the Senators that voted for Rubio’s amnesty.

Corker, Hatch, Heller and Flake in 2018

Graham and Alexander in 2020

Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio in 2022

God is taking out McCain


18 posted on 08/02/2017 8:41:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Republicans run away from a fight, that's why all the alligators are winning...
19 posted on 08/02/2017 8:45:40 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: GT Vander

The union protects them from getting fired as in the VA. That could easily be changed. Want to cut the budget? Pay employees what is comparable to the local area. How much does the government pay the Unions????


20 posted on 08/02/2017 8:54:21 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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