The American writer Jack London, who grew up in my neck of the woods, once said that a “gentleman” is a fellow who makes his living without doing any actual work. I think gentlemen may be the biggest part of the problem on both sides of the Atlantic.
There are plenty of them in Carrickmines and in Dun Laoghaire. Plenty of them in the Wicklow Mountains, and plenty of them in Dublin 2. In America, most of the “gentlemen” seem to be in Washington and on Wall Street. More’s the pity. Imagine the potential if they actually got off their fat arses and did something useful.
Happy New Year, everybody.

I really feel sorry for him . He is up against so much with the republicans . You could see a vast difference in him between the night of his first election and his re election . He went into the White House with such high hopes and aspirations and he has been blocked at almost every turn by others . He is a decent man with high values and he had to sacrifice a lot of these personal values to make any kind of improvements in the life of the lower classes in the US .
The republications will make him sweat him out till the end on this issue and no doubt will block any attempt to bring in gun control laws

Crud, there goes my raise ..????????

I get a bad feeling that the republicans will use this to play off against any gun control

They would never have allowed these tax hikes to happen