10-25-2023, 12:23 PM
(10-25-2023, 12:11 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Fair point and a bummer. It really rains on the schadenfreude parade when we have to admit that electing people based on their promises to never compromise, never stop fighting everyone, never learn a lesson, and never admit they are wrong has global consequences.
Are they even going to bother having a speaker vote this week? I assume they'll just go back home with pay until the government crashes and then they'll be home with pay again.
I think people are disillusioned with the government and thus elect people who are either hostile to it or atypical for the office. I also can't say I blame them. This is more recent, but how many struggling families could have their mortgages paid off with the money sent to Ukraine? How many people who can afford a monthly mortgage payment but can't buy a house for lack of a down payment could have been assisted in purchasing their first home? How many people with crippling credit card debt could have received significant relief? How about the victims of the Maui fire?
I'm not saying aiding Ukraine isn't important, but it's not hard to see how a struggling citizenry can look at that kind of cash being shipped overseas and be bitter as hell about it.
