chevysoldier

There are no penalties for screwing up as a Congressman or Congresswoman.

Perhaps it's time there were a few regulations created by the people to address that.

Until then, please continue to vote them all out of office except for the few that deserve to stay.

Agreed. I truly think just as the president has a limit of ten years, senators and representatives should be limited as well.

Yea, because preemptive invasion of a country is the same as retaliation for getting sucker punched by Japan.

Oh yeah I forgot. 9/11 wasn't a sucker punch at all...they just knocked on our front door...

Now you're just being silly and extremist... Funny how you forget that Clinton balanced the budget and left a surplus in office. We didn't have a debt until we waged this war under false pretenses. We didn't even focus on the right country and there's people that STILL believe, to this day, almost a decade later that Iraq was behind 9/11.

Oh but fighting fire with fire is okay for the HC bill. But waging this war under false pretenses is is wrong, even though all the good we have done for Iraq and to protect our country.

We had debt with Clinton, we didn't have a deficit.

Umm, no. It's usually people refusing to face fact, and general ignorance and lack of education that skews peoples views on issues. (say that three times fast)

Anything to prove that? Or are you guessing?

Are you the chick that broke up Sandra Bullock's marriage?

i wish, i LOVE jesse james. lol

I wish, I love Sandra Bullock

Welcome back. +1 on the course. GL.

About time you posted a non-partison rant.

And yes, Of The People... BY the people is FAR from what we have.

It's the dems fault I'm partisan lol.

Nah I know that the blame is shared by all we have elected. They don't get to that point to try to help, it's all about themselves. Well, I'm sure there are a couple who do it for their country.

That really sucks. Sorry to hear.

Stolen from his garage? That's balsy. Sorry to hear about that. That freaking sucks. I hope the perps get eye herpes or something.

Eye herpes? Really? How'd you come up with that?

No insurance? That sucks.

Once upon a time they hung people for stealing steeds.

I'm game to bring that back. No, really I am.

First off, yes it's an email forward. I'm posting this for people to read over and think. Forget your political views left, right or middle. No race or religion. Just "Of the people, for the people, by the people." Just American. Read this with an open mind.

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545 PEOPLE

By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems..

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.

This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.

Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,

Tax his bed,

Tax the table

At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,

Tax his mule,

Teach him taxes

Are the rule.

Tax his work,

Tax his pay,

He works for peanuts

Anyway!

Tax his cow,

Tax his goat,

Tax his pants,

Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,

Tax his shirt,

Tax his work,

Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,

Tax his drink,

Tax him if he

Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,

Tax his beers,

If he cries

Tax his tears.

Tax his car,

Tax his gas,

Find other ways

To tax his ass.

Tax all he has

Then let him know

That you won't be done

Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;

Then tax him some more,

Tax him till

He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,

Tax his grave,

Tax the sod in

Which he's laid.

Put these words

Upon his tomb,

Taxes drove me

to my doom...'

When he's gone,

Do not relax,

Its time to apply

The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL license Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

Excise Taxes

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel Permit Tax

Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)

Gross Receipts Tax

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

Liquor Tax

Luxury Taxes

Marriage License Tax

Medicare Tax

Personal Property Tax

Property Tax

Real Estate Tax

Service Charge T ax

Social Security Tax

Road Usage Tax

Sales Tax

Recreational Vehicle Tax

School Tax

State Income Tax

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)

Telephone Federal Excise Tax

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax

Telephone State and Local Tax

Telephone Usage Charge Tax

Utility Taxes

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Watercraft Registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'

If you don't we'll change your screenname to Jrmii2.0.

Yeah me too after re-reading it, I forget where I wanted to go with that. lol

Have you been to NWO?

If so why do you wanna go back?

jk.

I was just going to ask, what is there in NWO? I have never been up that way.

I did get a good chuckle from "they will never take away / our independence day!"

hahaha mine's 16...almost legal!

Your bike has a copulatory organ? j/k

Someone has way too much time on their hands. Funny tho.

Welcome hot girl

and we're off!

Any kind of bike? Any condition?

Welcome. Be ready for the

So to play devil's advocate. 567,327 out of the 22,000,000 US Facebooks users of voting age? So if that is a valid measure then you are saying the people really wanted it and that sample merely indicates only 2.5 percent of US Facebook users don't want it.

Yeah because only stupid, rich, white conservatives have the internet.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire.

The difference is Health care will HELP people, versus sending them into combat to potentially die.

Some more interesting links:

Scary New GOP Poll

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20100323/ts_dailybeast/7269_scarynewgoppoll

Fear strikes out

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/opinion/22krugman.html

First off, were you sent off to possibly die? No you weren't. The ones who were was because they willingly signed up knowing the risks. I guess when they attacked Pearl Harbor we shouldn't have gone after them either, I mean we just lost lives that way. There's no way we saved any lives.

Why don't we pass legislation that says 95% of everyones paycheck is taken by the government until the national debt is paid off. We would become financially independent and get all those other countries off our backs. You'd agree to that one right? I mean the means do justify the ends ?

I'm also confused on your republican poll. Why is it those people believe what they do? Is it because they are right-wing? Do they see something in Obama the left refuses to acknowledge because of party affiliation?

1) Public opinion doesn't matter, Cheney said so.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/22/democracy

2) Some people don't think the bill was LIBERAL enough.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/poll-americas-opinion-of-health-care-reform-is.php

3) That's Facebook. The same place that has a fanpage on "This pickle has more fans than Nickelback" (not verbatim, but something to that effect)

Well he did it so it's gotta be okay? And even if many people didn't want it because it wasn't liberal enough, they failed to listen to their constituents, the people that elected them.

Minority Leader John Boehner mourned: "We have failed to listen to America. And we have failed to reflect the will of our constituents. And when we fail to reflect that will -- we fail ourselves and we fail our country.

So you can therefore figure, liberals are even worse than conservatives because they knew what Cheney did was wrong by not listening, and now they did the same thing and have failed to correct that problem. Bravo.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=370668318969

527,327 members, 1,000,000+ wanted. See the people DID want this to pass. Right JRM?

The bill was HR 3590...

Uh oh, worlds gonna end.

I was being sarcastic.

You find the info at thomas.loc.gov which is where the official online copies are made available through the Library of Congress.

The couple of place's I did find it don't have it anymore. Thanks.

Because links to the bill(s) its self hasn't been posted since day one and no one in this thread has posted links to sites describing what's in the bill.

For official summary of HR3962 Then where is says:

11/7/2009--Passed House amended. Affordable Health Care for America Act - Division A: Affordable Health Care Choices - Title I: Immediate Reforms - (Sec. 101) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a temporary, national high-risk pool program to provide heal...Read the Rest

Click read the rest.

That's all I could find at this time.

If I was talking about Todd's show I would have asked "Can I cum?"

I'm talking about 600ZZ4eb's show

Yeah, I figured which is why I edited it. lol.

Come with us, More the merrier...in a non ghey way I mean of course..

Edit: It didn't edit my edit...wtf

How is your scooter posse doing anyways?

Can I come?

No Wrillo. j/k

Its old enough because we drive to the gunshows, she can go. I take mine to some.

For some reason I dont know what or when this is, I've a bday party to attend Sat afternoon but othere than that I think I'm free.

Oh yeah, gun show by cage she can go for sure. I've already taken her before. I was thinking by bike. It was later and was wasn't thinking all that clearly.