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Officials in office or those running for those offices don't look to private sector unions for campaign funds, only public sector unions, really? You are fine with private sector unions but not public but your answer is puzzling. Unions as a whole, public or private sector, helped raise everyone's living wages, made workplaces safer, etc. How have unions held back the best and brightest if Americans have been free to seek out another job with no unions to stifle them?

I forgot to respond to your previous comment to me on the differences between D's and R's.

I'm always curious when people say they are for small government. How small do they want government to be? Shrink it until you can drown it in a bathtub or something less than that draconian? What would they cut and by how much? The military, Social Security, corporate, bank, farm subsidies, food stamps, etc, etc? No doubt there would be a myriad of dissimilar responses but even if small government advocates would be in agreement, I wonder if they have a clear end vision of what the just right size government would actually look like. I have a hunch folks might get a tad testy if cuts involved compromising or gutting clean air, water, food etc or weather/violent storm forecasting or highway maintenance or public education or Medicare/Medicaid or police or firemen and so many other things one expects in the wealthiest country on earth. Considering the budget plans and bills with huge cuts from many legislators led by Grover Norquist and ALEC over the past few decades, I wonder if small government folks feel their lives won't be affected negatively or maybe feel their lives will be better. I'd say that would be an idealistic view.

I had no idea that D's were not for personal responsibility, most D's I know practice it. I do see people behaving irresponsibly but then again, I don't know if or it hadn't occurred to me to ask them if they are D's or R's. Perhaps we all feel this group or that group are particularly irresponsible. I happen to feel that banks, wall street, hedge fund managers were extremely egregious and greedy in gambling away $2 trillion of our money causing our mortgage/financial meltdown and then rewarded with bailouts, gigantic bonuses on top and no one going deservedly to prison. YMMV

I thank you for the invite to pick each other's brains email offer. I have current and some long term ongoing family responsibilities to tend to and I have already let myself be sidetracked too much as it is. Maybe in the future.

From: What's your view of this session of Congress?

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