I posted this article randomly in another thread (and there are plenty more sources that cover this topic, feel free to Google if you don't like USA Today), but I think it's important to highlight. This Congress could be least productive since 1947
By Susan Davis
8/15/2012
The amount of bills passed each year vary greatly, and there are many variables that affect it and no clear trend. However, this year's Congress is glaringly egregious, especially in light of the fiasco about the budget (which is their primary job). I think it shows a clear trend that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans feel that they have to work to earn our vote, they both kick the can down the road (so if you think changing Obama for Romney will make a difference, you are fooling yourself), spend their time bickering and fundraising, and skate through not doing their job. They take for granted that, because they have such a lock on political funding and an established base, they can be lazy; they don't truly represent us anymore. It's why I push so hard for supporting alternative candidates, despite the fact that most don't have a prayer of being elected. I wholeheartedly agree with what Jesse Ventura said earlier this year: "If you vote Republican or Democrat, you are part of the problem, not the solution."
Voting for a third-party candidate is often decried as “throwing away” your vote, but Ventura and Johnson both called for a different mindset. “You’re wasting your vote if you’re voting for Democrats or Republicans because you get the same government,” Ventura said.
Don't keep voting for corruption and status quo. The budget isn't being balanced, there's no clear plan for getting out of debt, no one's willing to raise taxes AND make cuts as they will then lose their job, and we're facing a tremendous increase in gas, food, and disaster-related costs with no willingness to even discuss the pending issue much less start doing something effective about it. They aren't getting the job done and they deserve to be fired, not passed back in because "no one else has a shot at winning". That's a defeatist attitude that I refuse to accept. tongue:
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
As a fiscal conservative, a deadlocked Congress should spend a lot less than Obama's super majority he had in 2008. Not objecting. If Obama wins, we will see four more years of the same.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
A lot of bills get combined too. As long as they pass the budgets and cut spending, fewer other bills that regulate and take away liberty is fine with me. I think this past year the House and Senate each passed their own different bills and ignored each other. Waste of a lot of paper and salaries. SOBs
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
