Tuesday, June 02, 2015

It was Senator Thune that changed the subject on the Senate Floor for a few minutes.

What are 'pro-growth' economic policies of the Republican Party? 

There it is, "The TPP" is among pro-growth policies that will accelerate the economy by 3.5 percent rather than 2.1. 

The question remains who is recipient of the 3.5 percent growth? 

Here is another Pro-Growth policy:

The greatest fallacy (click here) in economic policy today is the failure to see the vast, pro-growth opportunities offered by fundamental, structural entitlement reform. Today’s entitlement programs broadly discourage capital formation and investment, as well as labor force participation. Structural entitlement reforms that would reverse those effects would pump huge waves of capital and labor into the economy, creating an economic boom....

I don't have to go too much further to realize the pro-growth policies has absolutely nothing to do with growing our Middle Class. It is more like stealing from them through GOVERNMENT REFORM.

Local economies everyone! 

Shame on Senator Coats. He stated the very discussion on the Senate floor today of the NSA program is threatening the country's security. That is an enormous lie. There was no classified information being discussed on the Senate floor today. Senate is welcome to go into private session if necessary and I am sure that is a preference long about now by the Republican majority. 

The discussion today disrupts the control Republican Senators have about their rhetoric and probably feels like a national security issue. 

Senator Coates states the bill being discussed today if passed as it exists will remove the NSA from it's mission. He states the amendments will fix all that. So, there is no way of knowing what is being endorsed as a better law at this point. The entire of the amendments have to be heard and voted on to know what the final product is. I'll bet real money the amendments completely change the face of the bill and returns the dysfunction to the government surveillance program. Mr. Clapper need not sweat it out.

The ORIGINAL FISA court was designed to bring brevity to the HUMAN surveillance conducted by our agencies.  It was suppose to be a place where privacy was upheld in realizing there could be crimes being committed which required a warrant. It worked. Some call the court a rubber stamp to the agencies. If that were the case, the agencies would not have to do any work but simply suspect criminal activity.

The difference between electronic information and human obtained information is the reliability of the testimony. The testimony is upheld as an important measure in instituting the Fourth Amendment. 

This entire debate occurring on the Senate floor is about politics and not whether or not a program is effective. See, it is okay to cut funding for food stamps because people are lazy, but, forbid the funding for Republican Commercial Floor Time be cut. 

The NSA surveillance program is a political agency. It is has no track record of effectiveness.  

The violation of the Fourth Amendment is BUILT INTO the NSA surveillance program. It violates the Fourth Amendment as it exists. There SHOULD BE a warrant to facilitate the program when needed. The very words of the law allowing NSA surveillance is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. 

Please let this be politics and not the true IQ of Republicans. I might be providing them a compliment unwittingly.

The IRS had a hacking episode. Somehow Senator Isakson believes that is proof that the NSA program is vital. ????????????????? Did the NSA do it?

Oh, a breech in privacy at the IRS. Gotcha. You've got to be joking. In the minds of Republican Senators the NSA is no worse than the hackers at the IRS. OMG. 

How did we get to terrorist leaders at Gitmo? 

Oh, releases require tracing their phones. Am I in a time warp? How very stupid of me. This is actually reality television on C-Span. You know I now understand why passage to debate is a separate vote. It is a signal to the right wing media to ignore the Republicans at debate. They don't want to give Democrats talking points or 15 second election commercial ads.

For the few million-billionaires that have megabucks for political television ads on behalf of Democrat candidates, kindly consider the fact Gitmo detainees don't have US constitutional rights.  Buoy. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to Gitmo detainees to the surprise of Republican Senators.

It is really difficult to believe these people are in office.  

Senator McConnell is setting up the telephone companies to oppose the USA government. He states the law requires surveillance of new operating systems. This is a completely perverse paradigm the USA government has entered into because of grossly dysfunctional politics.

There are patent laws most inventors use to make their operating systems exclusive to the inventor be it company or individual. I would think the patent laws would be enough to let the US government know there is a new operating system to bring a BRIDGE to cooperation. Simply understanding there are new venues of computer operation should be enough to stimulate a discussion IN A CLOSED session by the House or Senate. 

In all honesty, the US Government is becoming it's own enemy. Inventors will go outside the country. The USA is driving a normally American economy outside it's borders. 

This is exactly the reason the FISA is suppose to work the way it was designed.  It is suppose to supply a place where the Fourth Amendment becomes alive and gives the authority of government to ask a company to supply information of criminal activity. It doesn't assail any rights of all citizens or all companies. Companies are allowed to maintain their 'consumer edge' under the old FISA as the company supplies the information and only the information under court order. Tapping a telephone line would require the assistance of the company without providing 'built in' insecurity gaps and/or details of their operating system. 

These laws that uphold the NSA surveillance program of the telecommunication networks simply demands too much, especially when the companies are burdened with expense and insecurity. I don't see how the American government can even consider itself a democracy. 

These laws assault more than the Fourth Amendment. 

If the USA continues to be this paranoid the businesses that are already multinational will transfer their headquarters to other countries. Those decisions will have noting to do with taxes either. 

Do not talk about Edward Snowden when Carlyle is held above the law. If Carlyle bothered to value the USA and it's trust in the company, the idea an analyst could actually carry out such a transfer of information would never have occurred.

Additionally, if Edward Snowden did not expose the reality of Americans' security in their own lives, this would never have happened. Most of the American public does hold a degree of gratitude to Mr. Snowden. Now. Let's discuss the real POPULOUS politics of the country.