rawgerz
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This old fart offends me, ever since the "tubes" crap he spewed up.
If you don't know shit about something you shouldn't be preaching like you do, much less trying to change it.
This is another reason why I'm happy to see someone not over the age of 60 running for presidency. Congress is full of OLD idiots with no "real world" experience.
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pnh102
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| said by rawgerz  :This is another reason why I'm happy to see someone not over the age of 60 running for presidency. Congress is full of OLD idiots with no "real world" experience. I wouldn't even say his age is a factor. I do agree with you that someone who is in office for a long time does lose touch with the real world. If there were congressional term limits, it would force a turnover and allow for new blood to come in.
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When that "tubes" quotation appeared in the news, I thought right away, this guy is in the pocket of lobbyists. Think about it, where would he get that metaphor when he obviously doesn't know much about the cyber-world?
But of course, it's just the kind of thing a lobbyist would use to influence such a person. The issue at the time was network neutrality - so a lobbyist tells him that if ISPs aren't allowed to discriminate, the "tubes" will be overloaded. It's superficially plausible, and misleading in ways a techno-ignorant legislator would fall for. |
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said by rawgerz :Congress is full of OLD idiots with no "real world" experience. I think their problem is that they don't realise that the internet has become the NEW "real world". |
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said by swhx7 :It's superficially plausible, and misleading in ways a techno-ignorant legislator would fall for. Larry Craig is looking for interns.
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said by pnh102 : If there were congressional term limits, it would force a turnover and allow for new blood to come in. And then the incumbents could whine/cry about how they haven't had enough time to accomplish anything and how the n00bs won't know enough to be worthy of election. Just like they do in California. Fortunately, we just shot down that particular proposition purchased by the politicians currently holding office but who are on their way out as a result of our term limits for these assholes.
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| said by major marco :And then the incumbents could whine/cry about how they haven't had enough time to accomplish anything and how the n00bs won't know enough to be worthy of election. Personally, I find that when politicians fail to do most things, we are usually better off.
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said by pnh102 : If there were congressional term limits, it would force a turnover and allow for new blood to come in. I won't say that's a bad idea, but whats the point when a new group of idiots come in to take their place?
I think half the country was CHEERING when they got their democratic congress, swearing things will get better, it is going to be a great change, but it turned out they had/have the lowest approval rating in history?!
People don't realize that too much of anything is a bad thing (a congress mostly democrats/mostly republicans).
Democrats over regulate but Republicans deregulate too much.
Here we are with the dollar's value dropping year by year (and the Euro going up and up) and we still won't go back on the gold standard. They would rather have the housing market make up the dollar's value and with bad credit and foreclosures it makes no sense. Not to mention when you send jobs overseas more and more people can't pay for their homes after they lose their jobs and it just further hurts the economy.
I swear this country is out to just shoot itself in it's fat, diabetic foot.
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