Scooter wrote:That "gravy train" line will have a short life if someone comes out with an ad saying that it originated with Rob Ford, and juxtaposing a picture of Trump with one of Ford smoking crack.
But I think Scooter was referring to the use of "Stop the Gravy Train" as a political slogan. However, this is probably a much bigger deal in Canada than it is in the U.S.; I doubt whether very many Trump supporters have ever even heard of Rob Ford. (Probably the only reason many of them have even heard of Toronto is because the city has a baseball team...)
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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Econoline wrote:Of course the expression "gravy train" has been around for a long time. ...
But I think Scooter was referring to the use of "Stop the Gravy Train" as a political slogan. However, this is probably a much bigger deal in Canada than it is in the U.S.; I doubt whether very many Trump supporters have ever even heard of Rob Ford. (Probably the only reason many of them have even heard of Toronto is because the city has a baseball team...)
No I meant "stop the gravy train". It is highly unlikely that it has not been used many times before in politics.
rubato wrote:No I meant "stop the gravy train". It is highly unlikely that it has not been used many times before in politics.
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Probably not. The term I generally heard for projects, whether necessary or not, that brought a steady supply of jobs and money into a specific area or district was "pork-barrel". But if your district got a pork-barrel project — say, like a contract to produce something, whether it was mess kits or machine guns, for the DoD — and you were able to get a job related to that project you were still riding the gravy train ... and trust me, derailing the gravy train to your district was as sure a way of committing political suicide as anything. -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Joe Guy wrote:Is there really a God? I mean, somebody had to have created this election year... or is it just a natural progression of an arbitrary universe?
Yes there is and he answered a prayer of mine.
Not to MY satisfaction, but answered none the less.
Who is playing Tom Cruise's role in this latest self-inflicted massacre of the Republican Party, I wonder
"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
Joe Guy wrote:Is there really a God? I mean, somebody had to have created this election year... or is it just a natural progression of an arbitrary universe?
Yes there is and he answered a prayer of mine.
Not to MY satisfaction, but answered none the less.
I was taught that God always answers prayers.
It's just that sometimes the answer is "no". -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
I think that the biggest problem trump will have, as president, is that the republican victory will be sweeping to the point where the GOP will have a veto proof majority in both houses....
"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
