BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...

Subject: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 08:45 PM

The dome of the United States Congress has 1300 cracks in it, water is leaking into the building and threatening a hand painted fresco of George Washington...

The Democratic controlled Senate has approved the money to fix the building...

The Republican controlled House of Reps, in essence, says, "Screw it, let it fall in"...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: gnu
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 08:53 PM

The reps' house voted aginnit?

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Don Firth
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 09:40 PM

That's kind of an allegory for the whole country. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 09:50 PM

Yup... Since the late 1860s when the final cast iron dome was installed, it has been maintained by Republicans and Democrats as needed... It is now as dangerous as the 3000 condemned bridges in America...

Oh, how I wish I were Obama's speech writer...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 10:08 PM

Well now, at least the Kansas Capitol isn't in similar danger. The Republicans there just voted to finance "a study" of what needs to be done to keep the roof from caving in.

Of course the situation is a little different there, because there ain't nobody but Republicans in the building so there might be a little more "self interest" involved.

John

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 05:29 AM

Terrorists are going to smack a jetliner into it eventually.
I say save tax dollars and let it keep crumbling.
(:-( ))=

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: kendall
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 07:13 AM

The best thing we can do is kick them all out.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Midchuck
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 07:20 AM

Not quite all. Leave Boiney (Sanders). Make him dictator for life.

P.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 12:35 PM

I'm glad you exposed this, Bobert. I will cancel my plans to visit the USA Congress and stand under the dome, for reasons of personal safety.

Just had a thought here, though....if it has become "too expensive" to fix the building, then they might decide to use it for the next false flag attack...thus killing 2 birds with one stone, as it were.

They'd blame it on Iran, of course. Iran would then get pulverized. And someone like Haliburton or Bechtel would get the juicy contract to build a brand new Congress building to replace it. Hmmm.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 12:55 PM

I see you and Chongz have been talking about this, LH, but sounds like plausible plan to me...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 04:34 PM

Let Tom Clancy know.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: michaelr
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 06:44 PM

Nowadays Clancy can't even sing.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 05:36 PM

"The Republican controlled House of Reps, in essence, says, "Screw it, let it fall in"..."

Why Americans and Brits think they matter is beyond me. Must be a genetic defect. No offense to any of the colonials.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 05:43 PM

A central meeting place is absolutely essential to modern US government, and a strict schedule of times when all our legislators must assemble there is very important.

Otherwise the lobbyists would have to hunt all over the country to find them all and give them their big brown manila envelopes.

John

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Aug 12 - 07:38 PM

Brilliant, John!

You are so right. Perhaps the lobbyists could be persuaded to fund the repair job. It would be in their own interests, after all.

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 03:42 AM

Schoolkids can buy stamps to pay for it.
Patriotic. Sacrifice. The American way.
(:-( P)=

Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 07:12 AM

I'd suggest that a tax on political speakers, to let the politicians who work there pay for it, would be a more appropriate solution.**

In my state, yet another suit is at the State Supreme Court level protesting that funding for schools is insufficient to meet the requirements specifically stated in the State Constitution. The Court has already ruled TWICE that funding is unconstitutionally inadequate, and the Legislature has just ignored them, and continued to make further cuts. At many of our schools, the kids already have to pay to participate in unfunded and/or underfunded educational activities.

Or maybe they could just make the same percentage cuts in Legislators' pay as have been made for the teachers, and the repairs at least for our state building could be made quite quickly.

** Not really an appropriate solution, but surely less inappropriate.

John