Posted on 08/27/2017 8:26:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Around 2010, I was offered a gov’t job in DC. I accepted. To be honest, I’d never been to DC in my life.
So I arrived. I was there for 1,273 days (yes, I counted). There’s not a single day that something of an unusual, or corrupted, or screwed-up episode did not occur. Around the clock....24 hours a day....it amazed me over the amount of screwed up episodes that occurred. Some involved government operations...some involved murders or shootings in DC....some involved nutcases....some involved the city metro-system.
My impression is that DC is dying...literally passing away as we speak. I reached some point where I just said enough, gave notice, and finally retired (leaving the area). About three months before I left....some some-time businessman who had a jewelry shop on the main drag about half-a-mile from my apartment. Mid-day....some guy walked in and shot the owner dead. No worry about getting caught or seen. It’s an attitude that exists around all of the region...they are all doing some wrong, and don’t worry if they get caught. Even the Senators.
No, it’s getting better, fast. We post 4-5 local expansions here on FR every day. There are cranes building everywhere. The #s are real.
So, has coal traffic increased or decreased on railroads? How much of rail volume is coal?
Whole heartedly agree. Congress is the largest inhibitor
There definitely needs to be some kind of reorganizing of both parties. Too many nuts running the jackass party who tacitly support violent street thugs, and too many milquetoasts in the GOP willing to pretend it’s not a problem. Then there’s the agenda driven media. Another problem.
The only reason I voted for Trump was Trump. The GOP had zip to do with it.
Once Trump is gone, the GOP will be history.
You are right. Just think of all of those investors, 401ks, IRAs, mutuals invested in these companies. Who isn't leveraging their retirement with the stock market anymore?
I track the trucking industry pretty closely, and it seems to be doing OK overall but there's always room for improvement.
I concur with the statement and would like to add that DC and Wall St. have strings that go beyond our shores. As another previously stated, things are not right and something has to give. Cheap labor and the bottom line rule the day. We are becoming peasants of servitude to 1% masters and indebted for generations until the house of cards collapses.
What is the typical cost there?
I am no longer a Charlie Brown Republican.
How much does it pay?
Yeah, but Bush was... Bush: the quintessential representative of the globaslist swamp.
So-called conservatives (e.g., Limbaugh) always defended Mister Isms.
Yep!
The real enemy is the RNC: the one supposedly guarding your back but really stabbing it, not the one facing you.
In my area (northeastern NJ) nobody has any misconceptions about the economy - it is still horrible, and we haven’t hit bottom yet (in terms of the “Greater Depression”). When people tell me the soaring stock market is a sign of strong recovery, I respond that the best way for companies to up their stock prices is to shed American workers.
At this point the performance of the stock market and that of American workers are inversely related; ObamaCare is being kept alive to transfer health care costs from employers to taxpayers, and this is helping many companies’ bottom lines (and therefor stock price).
You are right and I was wrong.
We should have a Constitutional Amendment stating that the Federal Government has to abide by the Constitution.
This is what Cultural Marxism looks like!!!
That’s one witty rejoinder. Bravo.
It turns out that it’s up to you and I to hold our government accountable to constitutional limits. That we’ve done a poor job is no reflection on the document.
If we attempt to do that, the Democrat ANTIFA Commies will attack us and we’ll be blamed for inciting the Violence used against us.
We will also be arrested for defending ourselves.
Up is Down and Right is Wrong.
We are living inside an Episode of the Twilight Zone.
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