• zeroConnection@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    “YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt.”

    Well, she is absolutely right about that. She should know, because it’s her generation’s fault.

    Foxx, who voted for the spending bill that the Congressional Budget Office projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt, told a 10-year-old that he and his classmates would be responsible for paying it down.

    How are these people in charge of anything?

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      How are they in charge? They get voted in because better people are not running or not getting voted for in many cases. Gerrymandering protects some of them.

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        Because we select our leaders via rigged popularity contests then let them sit in office with zero accountability, zero modern standards for hiring or work oversight, and “performance evaluations” every 2-6 years. Imagine running a company that way.

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            A big reason the DNC didn’t want a primary in 2024 is because boomer votes probably can’t carry primary candidates any longer.

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        Don’t pretend like it’s down to voters. Money in politics ensures that good candidates can’t succeed before voters even get a chance to show up at the ballot.

        • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I’d be a better president than most of these aging Boomers at this point, but running for president of the USA is around one billion dollars of campaign costs. Only those with already established money connections will get it and we know what that causes.