Do you fell represented by your Representative?

Do you feel Represented by your Representative

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • A little

    Votes: 4 14.8%

  • No

    Votes: 4 14.8%

  • Representative? You mean Unrepresentative, right?

    Votes: 16 59.3%
  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .
My congressional representative for the most part represents my ideas. He's low on pork, anti-illegal immigration and came up the hard way through local politics; city council, then mayor. He's a conservative Republican.

Vi
 
ViRedd said:
My congressional representative for the most part represents my ideas. He's low on pork, anti-illegal immigration and came up the hard way through local politics; city council, then mayor. He's a conservative Republican.

Vi
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I just got the letter from Turner (Dayton, OH) and he's not representative of a Conservative.

I can agree that unemployment benefits may be necessary, but raising them is stupid. All that unemployment benefits are, to quote Reagan, are "Prepaid Vacations for Free Loaders."

I still have a job, I'd like for the government to pay for me to take a vacation for 6 months.

Hell, I'm sure there are many people that would like for the government to pay for them to go on vacation for 6 months or a year.

Unemployment Benefits do nothing to address the underlying problem which is a lack of job growth (Especially in Ohio.)

Items that would address the Lack of Job Growth, and thus not likely to be pushed by Obama, are

1. Declare that as Requiring Union Membership is a violation of an Employment Contract no Union should be able to force employees to be involved in their collective bargaining, or to pay dues. If people want to have the Union Represent them, then that is their choice, and they can make it. They should not be forced into it. In short, make the entire country Right to Work areas.

2. Encourage Business Growth by drastically lowering taxes at the top tier. I'm already imagining the response from the Statists on this one, but the logic is clear. By lowering taxes on low businesses you decrease the costs of businesses, and thus allow them to survive longer on lower profit margins, a condition that they are currently facing. It also encourages more start ups because the potential returns are increased. Thus it has a two pronged effect on unemployment.

3. Instead of focusing on switching to a Single Payer System, Obama could offer new regulations that force Insurance Companies to set insurance rates company wide based on the demographics of their customer base. Forcing the Insurance Companies to treat everyone roughly the same by ensuring that differences between groups are ignored. It is not fair that one business who may be employing some one with a chronic illness will have to have all their employees pay more than another company that is not. Besides, the original model of insurance companies was that it was a pooled risk, not a divided risk.

4. Abolish Personal Income Taxes and Pay Roll Taxes for 1 year. This would put a massive amount of money (Nearly 1 Trillion) back into the hands of the working class and the middle class (with some of course going to the rich, but who cares? if I get more money, and the boss gets more money, why do I care that the Boss got more money? The boss pays me to work, the boss having more money is a good thing.)

5. Let the Corporate Welfare Queens (AIG, Goldman Sachs, etc.) FAIL, instead of bailing them out.

Giving AIG $30 - $40 Billion every 6 - 9 months is not a solution to their problem of mismanagement, instead it just encourages the problem to continue because it separates the COSTS OF FAILURE from failing, and thus encourages failure.

6. Privatize Social Security and all Federal Pension Programs, even if this means borrowing $ 2 - 3 Trillion to do so, the long term benefits are worth it. It frees up more money for businesses and individuals, and thus will give those that are struggling with mortgage payments and still have a job breathing room. It also increases the amount that working pays for those that are now working at a lower paying job.

(Med o Mao, don't even bother commenting, this will result in you being given however much you're expecting over whatever remains of your existence (Which is why it requires borrowing the $2 - $3 Trillion.)
 
I still have a job, I'd like for the government to pay for me to take a vacation for 6 months.
Here's an Idea, start showing up late, not doing your work, cussing around the water cooler in a loud raspy voice. I'm pretty sure you'll get fired. Then you can contest it and have about a 60/40 chance of obtaining UI. Then let's see if you can support your ass on it. My guess is you'd want a raise just like everyone else. But you see, 99.9% of all those other people on UI are there because their employer went bust or is downsizing. There are no new jobs that will pay even a fraction of what they were living on and even the minimum wage jobs are all taken by those that went before and have run out of UI.
 
medicineman said:
I still have a job, I'd like for the government to pay for me to take a vacation for 6 months.
Here's an Idea, start showing up late, not doing your work, cussing around the water cooler in a loud raspy voice. I'm pretty sure you'll get fired. Then you can contest it and have about a 60/40 chance of obtaining UI. Then let's see if you can support your ass on it. My guess is you'd want a raise just like everyone else. But you see, 99.9% of all those other people on UI are there because their employer went bust or is downsizing. There are no new jobs that will pay even a fraction of what they were living on and even the minimum wage jobs are all taken by those that went before and have run out of UI.
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Life's a Bitch, and full of risks, I don't see why I should be subsidizing their failure, or their employers' failure.

Besides, the money would be better used if it was left in the hands of those that earn it so they can purchase products, products that would be produced by other companies, that would then need more employees to produce those products.

Obama's idea of bottom up fails miserably, because all it can guarantee is a descent to the bottom, where the only companies still surviving are utility companies, agricultural companies, and apartment complexes. Any one else will be out of business, and thus not producing anything.

Oh, yes, it also guarantees the survival of the banks for a time, but if these people that are bailing out are just using the money to pay for food, shelter and utilities then THERE IS NO ECONOMIC STIMULUS.

Let me repeat that for you Chairman Med o' Mao

THERE IS NO ECONOMIC STIMULUS.
 

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by
 legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person
 receives without working for, another person must work for
 without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
 anything that the government does not first take from
 somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that
 they do not have to work because the other half is going to
 take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea
 that it does no good to work because somebody else is going
 to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the
 end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing
 it."

~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005
 
max420thc said:

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by
 legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person
 receives without working for, another person must work for
 without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
 anything that the government does not first take from
 somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that
 they do not have to work because the other half is going to
 take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea
 that it does no good to work because somebody else is going
 to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the
 end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing
 it."

~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005
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Nice Quote
 
My rep was the only representative from CA that argued against legislation that would prevent the federal government from imoeding the implementation of state medical marijuana laws. He voted agianst the bailout and stimulus plans every time though. Hes just like Vi's, conservative republican, anti immigration, was on city council, and then mayor.
 
Ever watched that show "Lie to Me" ? It's about facial expressions and postures that show what you are really feeling no matter what you are saying.

Clinton gets a photo cameo in damn near every episode.
 
misshestermoffitt said:
Ever watched that show "Lie to Me" ? It's about facial expressions and postures that show what you are really feeling no matter what you are saying.

Clinton gets a photo cameo in damn near every episode.
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No, I saw previews, just didn't think it was very interesting.

Watching the 1st Season of Burn Notice on DVD right now though (Friend lent it to me.)

Interesting Show.
 
max420thc said:
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by
legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person
receives without working for, another person must work for
without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take from
somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that
they do not have to work because the other half is going to
take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea
that it does no good to work because somebody else is going
to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the
end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing
it."

~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005
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dr. adrian rogers was a baptist minister, not an economist. I am sure even the unibomber said some neat things. adrian rogers was one of them religious nutjobs.
drunk with power and convinced of his own brilliance. may he rot.
 
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