Term limits and the ban on lobbying have to go hand in hand, without that former politicians just become lobbyists, kind of like how FCC commissioners do now….. They have laws for people like lowly contract negotiators in the Navy that forbids them from dealing with any companies they negotiated contracts with for 10 years after leaving service.
Brian From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 12:27 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political VAX Another big issue is lobbying. I'm pretty much of the opinion that should be outlawed, at least in the current form (which is basically bribery). On Friday, April 1, 2022, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: Forgive my History, but isn't that how it 'used' to be? You went to congress for the congressional session, but ran your normal business when not in DC? It wasn't your full time job. Although that thinking will open up a whole hive of 'then only the rich can afford to run the country' On 4/1/2022 8:36 AM, Robert wrote: More like 2 years, but that would be a better system than what we have created... Maybe you don't have to pay taxes those two years and you get free medical. On 4/1/22 5:30 AM, D. Bernardi wrote: Maybe being a representative in Congress should work more like jury duty. Have a few professional committee politicians and the rest 'regular people' to get the job done. Dear Mr Jones, you are hereby summons to report to Congress for the next 6 months. At 06:32 PM 3/31/2022, you wrote: The operative words in that are "Hold onto their Jobs"  Congress has become the golden ticket. Until we figure out some way to start prying them out of the seats and make the seats just another job we are pretty much screwed and will get more screwed right until it all falls apart.  I probably have around 20 years left. It's gonna be interesting to see what kills me first. On 3/31/22 9:45 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: Partisan politics sucks. Both parties have planks in their platform that I support. Both have repugnant policy goals. One on one I enjoyed my time with members of congress. But they have to play a mean game to hold onto their jobs.  From: Darin Steffl Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 10:40 AM To: Chuck McCown Cc: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political VAX  How brainwashed do they need to be to want the covid IV treatment to try and save their lives while denying they have covid? It really makes me sad how easily these people can be manipulated.  Pretty much all fox "news" hosts are fully vaccinated yet they make their viewers question the vaccine. Trump is vaxxed and boosted and he has been booed on stage when he said that.  I would love to be able to vote for some GOP members but they keep proving to me they're so far off the deep end, I don't see how I possibly could. I'm all for moderate politicians and so far, Biden has been fairly moderate and not pandering too much to the far left. And I wish GOP members would stop pandering to the far right beliefs that are killing people with covid and causing them to storm the capitol because they think the election was stolen. Obviously, it was not. I'm firmly against any politician that shows they're anti-lgbtq. It's 2022 so it's time to let people love who they love without hating on them.  Republicans need to do a better job standing up to the nut jobs in their party like trump, Madison cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Green, and some other crazy lady who dropped out of highschool. All they do is spew hate and don't actually legislate.  On Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 11:30 AM Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> wrote: We buried some anti vaxers in our neighborhood. My daughter in law worked at an infusion clinic where they gave them the IV treatment.  She saw very frightened anti vaxers all day long every day begging for treatment. And some begging for treatment while denying it was covid.  From: Darin Steffl Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 10:19 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political VAX  Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, covid hoax believers are all ignorant to actual data unfortunately. They believe science is fake, rigged, and that somehow their favorite far right TV personalities or podcast hosts are smarter than Doctors and Scientists.  Greenie here and I know more than a few people who have had Covid 2-3 times and they screamed the last 2 years that they wouldn't get Covid because they had natural immunity. How'd that turn out for them?!?! Did they admit they were wrong? Of course not because they'd rather dig their heels in and be wrong 10x worse than admit fault and do the right thing.  On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:05 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: Utah. Yeah, you don’t need no stinking vax. (Orange no vax, blue vax, green boosted)  I might even go to a movie for the first time in 2 years. But I am a greenie...  -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com   -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi <http://www.mnwifi.com/>www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>Like us on Facebook -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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