I remind you....congress had to vote on that. Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
----- Reply message ----- From: "Jaime Solorza" <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> To: "Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] OT does it really matter? Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2016 10:50 PM Well Bush decision to invade Iraq did affect my family.. My son who proudly served in Iraq came back injured physically and mentally. He is still under medical care . We should have gone after Taliban in Afghanistan and wiped them out along with poppie fields. Hussein was a dictator I know but our reason to invade was based on weapons of mass destruction which didn't exist. We messed up the status quo, left and gave ISIS an opening... If you study history of region it has shown no outside nation has ever been able to conquer area for very long.. These folks have been at war since forever and we got caught up in it. When you travel on plane you are affected... Large public events are different now because threat of terrorism exists. So we are all affected some way. The times, they are a changin On Oct 16, 2016 9:21 PM, "Bruce Robertson" <br...@pooh.com> wrote: Exactly right. Who is president has some effect, but not game changing. Most people in the country are middle of the road, and the progress of the country reflects that. The pendulum swings back and forth, but always reverts to the mean. On 10/16/16 8:17 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Congress makes and changes law. Supreme Court makes a few important decisions. Regulators are who really run the country. Does it really matter who the president is? What did Obama do? Encouraged the ACA. Dropped the ball in Syria. But how did he affect me, my degree of wealth, my amount of spare time? Ditto Bush. They affect foreign policy. They have the ability to really mess up other people’s lives in other countries, but do they really have much effect on me? Granted, altering the make up of the Supreme Court changes things like can I choose to marry a dude or do I have to sell wedding cakes to gays. But that really does not touch me. My granddaughter having to cope with dudes in the bathroom at school hits a bit closer to home, but I trust congress will eventually settle on something a bit more common sense. I guess I am trying to convince myself that a president really doesn’t do much here at home. Congress does. The court does. Bureaucracies do. Now, if the president could get a whole truckload of cheese delivered to the Whitehouse and give it out to anyone that drops in for a visit, then we are talking about a real impact... http://history1800s.about.com/od/19th-Century-Presidents/fl/Andrew-Jacksons-Big-Block-of-Cheese.htm !DSPAM:2,580442b817511656011445!
