{"id":148,"date":"2005-05-29T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=148"},"modified":"2005-05-29T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2005-05-29T18:44:57","slug":"us-senators-always-trading-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/us-senators-always-trading-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senators Always Trading Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>both sides agree some trades make them puke<br \/>\nthe bald one says here is why that this is wrong<br \/>\nwe end up with two pukey bills<br \/>\nlike consent to a judge half the country does not want<br \/>\nand pass on an ambassador the other half wants<br \/>\nthen celebrate each win by puking<br \/>\nan example<br \/>\none state gets low housing funding by accepting a military base in his state<br \/>\nno negotiations like<br \/>\nwhy do not the low income people get the jobs of building low income housing<br \/>\ninstead of keeping military bases that are not needed?<br \/>\nhow did our citizens get to the state of wanting a job that is not needed<br \/>\nwhen it would be more logical, to give those who will actually lose their jobs<br \/>\na two year severance pay or some such<br \/>\ninstead of &#8220;busy work&#8221; and every government worker<br \/>\nknows that demand&#8230;how else to grow a bigger trough?<br \/>\nthe answer to the question si:<br \/>\nto have a law abiding country<br \/>\nlaws must not offend half, or more, of the country<br \/>\nthe higher the percentage of the country that agrees with a law<br \/>\nthe lower degree of laws broken<br \/>\nin the old days<br \/>\nthe elders would debate until they were blue in the face<br \/>\nthey would either reach a consensus or they would wear themselves out<br \/>\nand no new law, or enactment, would occur<br \/>\nat least until or unless strength was garnered for another debate<br \/>\nand rules yes lets have rules of debate<br \/>\ncivility not being the least among them<br \/>\nhow long has it been since political conventions were about selection<br \/>\ninstead of celebration and complete unity?<br \/>\nis 60% agreement really too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>both sides agree some trades make them puke the bald one says here is why that this is wrong we end up with two pukey bills like consent to a judge half the country does not want and pass on an ambassador the other half wants then celebrate each win by puking an example one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/us-senators-always-trading-votes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Senators Always Trading Votes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}