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Old 08-25-2015, 02:27 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Crockett, I think you're wrong on that.

From everything I've seen about politics as practiced by lifetime/career bureaucrats...politics is ALSO about a single goal: Making your cronies back home money.

That's it. End of story.
And if the cronies make more money importing from the Third World, the cronies win.

I support you on we have to get out of the trap of relying on foreign countries for cheap goods. Will you buy a bike at three times the price because it was made in the US?

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And the only reason there are "2 sides" is because the Republican has one company that they are trying to funnel money to and the Democrat has another company that they are trying to funnel money to.

Trump would easily swim in those waters. He's a professional. These bureaucrats are all amateurs who would never last a minute in the real world of negotiations.
And in those two sides are lots of cronies funding the politicians. America can't get sensible gun laws passed, why is that?

As you say it's negotiations, the art of give and take.
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