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Filling the Swamp
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:50 am
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:50 am
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There was a few things on Trump's agenda i could get behind. Getting lobbyist out of the white house was a noble idea i guess because it sure didn't last long .
There was a few things on Trump's agenda i could get behind. Getting lobbyist out of the white house was a noble idea i guess because it sure didn't last long .
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Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:52 am to hawkeye007
We love the swamp, don't we folks?
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:53 am to hawkeye007
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He was appointed by President Obama, and he said he has no plans to back down.
Ya don't say.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:53 am to hawkeye007
Sounds like something that needs additional context.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 10:54 am to hawkeye007
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There was a few things on Trump's agenda i could get behind. Getting lobbyist out of the white house was a noble idea i guess because it sure didn't last long .
Lobbyists weren't the part of the swamp that Trump was going to drain. The entitled, lazy, and POS government workers that think the ppl are suppose to work for the government instead of the government working for the ppl are the part of the swamp that he was going to drain.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 11:24 am to WeeWee
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Lobbyists weren't the part of the swamp that Trump was going to drain.
Aw come on. Trump said he was going to put a 5 year ban on executive branch employees from lobbying the government and was going to do it by law rather them executive order so it couldn't be easily reversed.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 11:33 am to WeeWee
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Lobbyists weren't the part of the swamp that Trump was going to drain.
Exactly right. tRump's #1 priority is to help the obscenely rich get obscenely richer (see his budget and tax proposals). Lobbyists are a key part of that agenda.
The populist rhetoric he used on the campaign trail has turned out to be just that: pure rhetoric.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 12:32 pm to MrLarson
what does that have to do with the actual facts stated in this article. The fact that Trump is doing what he said he wouldn't and shocker trying to keep people from knowing about it.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:05 pm to Bullethead88
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Trump said he was going to put a 5 year ban on executive branch employees from lobbying the government
Which means they were the POS government employees before they became POS lobbyists.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:17 pm to WeeWee
my problem is lobbyist coming straight from the private sector working on issue's they were lobbying for or against and then Trump seeking ethics waivers for the positions. Lets be honest Trump and the word ethics waiver do not need to be in the same sentence.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:21 pm to hawkeye007
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my problem is lobbyist coming straight from the private sector working on issue's they were lobbying for or against and then Trump seeking ethics waivers for the positions.
I have a problem with that, but it is not nearly as big of the problem that I have with government employees that are in charge of huge wasteful programs (i.e. B-21) taking jobs with the ppl they just awarded those contracts to (i.e. Nothrop).
ETA: I got my planes wrong. It was the B-21 not the F-35.
This post was edited on 5/23/17 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:24 pm to WeeWee
i would have a problem with that also.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:27 pm to hawkeye007
Two things could go a long way towards cleansing our political system. Overturn the Citizen's United decision and enact term limits for congressmen. The system is set up now for abuse, corruption and greed. It incentivizes sociopathic behavior not altruistic behavior. Until that changes, nothing else will.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:28 pm to hawkeye007
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actual facts
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:40 pm to hawkeye007
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i would have a problem with that also.
You might want to start having a problem with that, because it happened under the most transparent admins in history.
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General Mark Welsh who ended his 40-year military career this summer as the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, has joined the board of one of America’s largest defense contractors, Northrop Grumman. Of course, this is the same company that was selected to build America’s next stealth bomber—a contract that could be worth upwards of $100 billion, and one that was awarded under Welsh’s purview.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:45 pm to WeeWee
so we circled back to Obama..how am i not surprised !
Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:57 pm to hawkeye007
This is something that a lot of Trump supporters on this board should be criticizing. This won't get much traction, though. Meanwhile, Seth Rich conspiracy stories will go 10+ pages.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 3:13 pm to hawkeye007
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so we circled back to Obama..how am i not surprised !
I wasn't trying to circle back to Odumbass. I was using that as an example of the POS government worker turned lobbyist bs that pisses me off way more than the POS lobbyist turned gobernment worker bs.
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