Mostly agree but I do blame the media and education establishments for being willful contributors to the collective ignorance. For example, people should know that the most important elections are their local elections, but yet the media does a stellar job of avoiding coverage of those for national coverage issues. It's more or less a shell game.

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Do you even understand how earmarks work? And your cartoon on "Trickle Down Wealth," very funny. We can both agree that the needy should get help, but the difference is that you see everyone as being needy. Cut federal spending by 50% and take the power away from these Congresspeople.

 

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You have no shortage of gall, inferring I don't understand earmarks, (having once engaged a lobbyist and written a few of my own) and then you come out with your stellar suggestion to "cut federal spending 50%" and problem solved as a remedy, why not just wave your magic wand, as that has about as much chance of success.

 

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Oh God, please don't have another drama filled hissy fit. So when people ask you questions, the inference is always that the answer is assumed to be no?

Try this. Earmarks don't add money to the budget, they take money allocated to a department and require that those funds be spent for a particular purpose. You say that it is a bribe, but the bribe isn't in money, its in influence and being able to say back home that you brought home the bacon. People like bacon so they keep voting them into office.

You laugh at my solution of cutting 50% but I never see you stop sucking at the government tit. Of course not, you only work on worthwhile public projects. Right? Well people tend to like their own worthwhile public projects while hating others. My solution is to cut the amount that can be spent and you solution is to get mad at the people doing the spending. My magic wand is more likely to work than yours.

 

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Looks like another great American politician... he does not like free speech... freedom from government entwined with religion.... heck the whole first amendment. Loves the military industrial complex... kind of scary actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_D._Rogers

Except on spending, where he earned only a 23% rating from Citizens Against Government Waste... He notably dissented with the Morocco free trade agreement due to potential job losses in the Alabama textile industry. On social issues Rogers has voted very conservatively, with vehement opposition to abortion, gay marriage and immigration. However, he has acted to protect the armed services industry in his area. On the Armed Services Committee, he opposed a new series of military base closures and won passage of a bill that would assure that universities would provide access to their facilities for military recruitment purposes and ROTC...

Rogers was a recipient of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's ARMPAC campaign contributions. DeLay was prosecuted and convicted on charges of felony money laundering of campaign finances and conspiracy to launder money. To date, Rogers has not offered to return any of the $30,000 he received. Rogers said that DeLay is innocent until proven guilty, and that he would not return the money "while the judicial process runs its course."...

Rogers supported an amendment to declare that people retain the right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage, and traditions on public property, including schools. He cosponsored legislation to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. Rogers sponsored a bill expressing the continued support of Congress for equal access of military recruiters to institutions of higher education.[ He also introduced legislation making it illegal to satirize or in any way parody the Transportation Security Administration.

 

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Everyone hates congress, but they loooooooooove their own representatives.

 

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