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Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Originally Posted by ryneone
Tell that to Obama the next president.
Civics 101 it is all about checks and balances.
There are checks and balances. When an opening occurs on the Federal bench, the President chooses a candidate to fill the opening and submits that name to the Senate who then checks the candidate and questions him or her in hearings. Then they should vote by a simple majority up or down.
...Detroit was and is sorely mismanaged, but come on. Does a guy putting in headlights really need to be making 36 dollars an hour?
Do any of the executives who ran their company into the ground deserve their paychecks? How can you pay out dividends and bonuses and then turn around and ask taxpayers to bail you out because you failed to adapt your company?
1. Going with his 300 military advisors, this likely won't change
2. Obama is pro-amnesty
3. Likely to pass but with the same limits
4. Likely to pass but mostly a State issue
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Originally Posted by mrbob
Agreed - they need to do something as payment for the illegal action they took - maybe community service - maybe paying a fine... not sure - but just granting them amnesty is a smack in the face to all who went thru the process legally, and diminishes overall respect for the law.
Assuming no criminal record and a means of support community service and a path to citizenship makes more sense than the huge task a round-up/mass deportation would require.
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Originally Posted by mrbob
I would add another quick win - change the 401K rules so that seniors can defer withdrawals for at least a few years - so they don't have to cash-out when the market is in the dumps...
And NO - I'm not a senior...
If economic woes continue I'd also like to see the elimination of the 10% penalty for early withdrawals and allow people to just pay their regular tax.
4 makes me turn green. How many people supporting that have actually ever worked in a union?
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