HotCoffee - What are you talking about? We need a much bigger government to protect us from the billionaires. It seems the conservative definition of liberty is to provide the freedom to concentrated wealth to run our lives. My definition of freedom is for the government to protect me from the oligarchs, billionaires, multinational corporations and the other definitions of concentrated wealth.

In the case of Malibu, the home of concentrated wealth, it is those same wealthy people who have bought the government and to use it to stop the riff-raff from bothering them.

@#15

Keep telling yourself Hillary is president even though Trump is appointing judges and issuing executive orders.

And,

Every night before you go to sleep ask yourself if Hillary had different position regarding firearms, could Bill still be inviting interns into the oral office?

One thing that always sticks out to me about people who basically take another persons property to get rich with various schemes, things like, not paying their fair share of tax, not paying their employees a fair wage, commit fraud on Wall Street, maybe start a fake University, a fake foundation, stiff contractors, launder money for despots, take your pick,...... they're all lazy as hell. However they're sure quick to condemn poor people who they perceive to be lazy just like them. Truth is, most of those poor refuse to rip their fellow citizens off to change that circumstance.

All the Democrats have to do is keep pushing radical bills like: No Taxes for people earning below 250k/year. Single Payer ( or Medicare) for Everyone, etc. And just keep on slamming them out EVERY DAY like a printing press. Make them as outrageous as they can. That will get them back in the NEWS. And there is nothing wrong with repeating bills. Remember how many times the Repossessicans tried VOTE to repeal Obamacare? Almost 60 times.. Find it by using a famous search engine using: 2016 Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare - This search string will get you there.

It's not necessarily the size of government, but rather who controls it and their corresponding agenda... Witness the contrast between the govermnent of FDR and that of Reagan...

Sadly! It can be assumed that a decision of this sort evolved in a committee somewhere by such means

Institutions should be abolished

Such a human self inflicted scourge upon us all

#5 - That is blasted UNBELIEVABLE

So, now we can't help each other

How in hell does that work?

What is in the mind of those who initaite this stuff???

Hey Thom! new radio interview w./Phil Proctor/Firesign Theater HERE! http://www.psiopradio.com/

Yes. Voters have not demanded to see Trump's tax returns. Voters are disengaged. Too many accept what FOX and false news tell them. They are too busy to look at the details & protest. Congress and the Senate work for what their rich donors demand. "Ivanka's tax cut" will pass.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

Over three centuries ago, our forefathers in Virginia and in Massachusetts, far from home in a lonely wilderness, set aside a time of thanksgiving. On the appointed day, they gave reverent thanks for their safety, for the health of their children, for the fertility of their fields, for the love which bound them together and for the faith which united them with their God.

So too when the colonies achieved their independence, our first President in the first year of his first Administration proclaimed November 26, 1789, as "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God" and called upon the people of the new republic to "beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions... to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue . . . and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best."

And so too, in the midst of America's tragic civil war, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day to renew our gratitude for America's "fruitful fields," for our "national strength and vigor," and for all our "singular deliverances and blessings."

Much time has passed since the first colonists came to rocky shores and dark forests of an unknown continent, much time since President Washington led a young people into the experience of nationhood, much time since President Lincoln saw the American nation through the ordeal of fraternal war--and in these years our population, our plenty and our power have all grown apace. Today we are a nation of nearly two hundred million souls, stretching from coast to coast, on into the Pacific and north toward the Arctic, a nation enjoying the fruits of an ever-expanding agriculture and industry and achieving standards of living unknown in previous history. We give our humble thanks for this.

Yet, as our power has grown, so has our peril. Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers--for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of the Congress approved December 26, 1941, 55 Stat. 862 (5 U.S.C. 87b), designating the fourth Thursday of November in each year as Thanksgiving Day, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 28, 1963, as a day of national thanksgiving.

On that day let us gather in sanctuaries dedicated to worship and in homes blessed by family affection to express our gratitude for the glorious gifts of God; and let us earnestly and humbly pray that He will continue to guide and sustain us in the great unfinished tasks of achieving peace, justice, and understanding among all men and nations and of ending misery and suffering wherever they exist.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:
DEAN RUSK,
Secretary of State

Democrats,

Lets get our act together and end the two santa cluase hypocrysy.

Yes, most of our Republicans in Congress literally "have no god but money" (along with their coporate sponsors). They can't call themselves "Christian" WITHOUT LYING! That's why I often refer to them as "screw-your-neighbor Republicans". (Ref. Matthew 22:37-40).