All Blog Posts Tagged 'Congress' (7)

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling and polotics:



"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.



The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to…

I have thought long and hard about the current situation and have come to a couple of conclusions.

We need to move beyond the clever quotes from yesteryear about what we should have/could have/need to do/ threaten to do to resolve this disturbing infestation on Capitol Hill and take immediate…

                The tea party participants and all of those millions of people that go to the meetings, call their members of congress, call their radio station and write letters to the editor have made great sacrifices from the normalcy of their lives.  Together, the thousand plus tea party groups across the country have accomplished some good things.

                In the debt ceiling debate it has become clear to the American people that the establishment of both the Democratic…

THIS IS NOT directed at any one party THEY ARE ALL

CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH



here's an example of why (just one of many reasons why) I don't trust my government for one second to tell me the truth or to conduct themselves in an honorable way.



Does anyone remember (the government hopes not or its been so long ago they just "conveniently" choose to skip over it) when the government BORROWED (their words) from the Social Security Fund just to TEMPORARILY…

http://kansas.watchdog.org/5920/kansas-delegation-adds-earmarks-to-omnibus-appropriations-bill/