Government
Corruption, Pork-Barrel, Corporate Welfare, Waste, etc. . . .
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Pressing Problems that Bloated, Do-Nothing Congress continues to ignore | |
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CONGRESS' To-Do List (see what Congress has done since the NOV-2006 election) | |
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10+ Abuses Hammering and Cheating Most Americans for the past 30+ years (these things that did not all come about by mere coincidence) | |
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10 Examples of Government Waste | |
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Massive Waste (Citizens Against Government Waste) | |
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Rampant Pork-Barrel and graft (see examples of the truly ridiculous below) | |
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Corporate Welfare (more. . .) | |
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Government Fraud ; Constitutional violations; Article V of the Constitution; | |
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Government Corruption and numerous false statements followed by numerous blunders. | |
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Campaign Finance Fraud ; government is FOR-SALE (a tiny 0.15% of 200 million eligible voters make 83% of all federal campaign donations) | |
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Politicians Above the Law (the 546 Clinton pardons; 140 on his last day in office) | |
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Cu$hy Perk$ (and Congress voted itself 9 raises between 1997 and 2007) | |
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Cu$hy Retirement Plans for Congress Persons | |
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The massive $Loading... National Debt, Borrowing, and Spending | |
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Interest on the National Debt (it will take 153 years pay off the National Debt) | |
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Debt and Excessive Money-Printing (excessive Money-Printing causes Inflation) | |
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Legal Plunder: Eminent Domain Abuse | |
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Politicians Pit American Citizens and Illegal Aliens Against Each Other (it's despicable) | |
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Badly-Needed, Common-Sense Reforms (that can never be passed until voters make it happen) | |
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The Human Factor (we must understand and account for the human factor) | |
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The Cheater's Philosophy (learn to recognize control mechanisms; such as partisan warfare) | |
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Solutions ; Help to Educate Others (peacefully force government to be responsible and accountable too!) | |
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PROs and CONs (why to stop re-electing irresponsible incumbent politicians) | |
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Do the Voters Must Like Corruption? Then Why Reward Congress With 95% Re-Election Rates? | |
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Consider the Following Scenario (must we always learn the hard way?) | |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
| Look at what irresponsible incumbent politicians in CONGRESS do daily as our troops risk life and limb : |
| = | Vote for $107,000 to study the sex life of the Japanese quail or Vote for body armor for troops without body armor ? | |
| = | Vote for $1.2 million to study the breeding habits of the woodchuck or vote for more funding for disabled veterans ? | |
| = | Vote for $150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud or vote for more armor for Humvees and military vehicles ? | |
| = | Vote for $84,000 to find out why people fall in love or vote to secure the nation's near wide-open borders ? | |
| = | Vote for $1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to work or vote to fix the levees in New Orleans ? | |
| = | Vote for $19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence or shore up the plundered Social Security and Medicare systems? | |
| = | Vote for $144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws or vote for funding for flu vaccines ? | |
| = | Vote for funds to study the cause of rudeness on tennis courts and examine smiling patterns in bowling alleys or improve public education ? | |
| = | Vote for $219,000 to teach college students how to watch television or vote to use that money for scholarships ? | |
| = | Vote for $2 million to construct an ancient Hawaiian canoe or secure the nation's coastal ports ? | |
| = | Vote for $20 million for a demonstration project to build wooden bridges or repair our crumbling infrastructure (bridges, roads, railways, tunnels, etc.) ? | |
| = | Vote for $160,000 to study if you can hex an opponent by drawing an X on his chest or reduce election/voting fraud ? | |
| = | Vote for $800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley or vote for better medical care for injured soldiers and veterans ? | |
| = | Vote for $100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft or vote for funding better defense systems ? | |
| = | Vote for $16,000 to study the operation of the komungo, a Korean stringed instrument or vote for funding to fight diabetes, aids, and other diseases ? | |
| = | Vote for $1 million to preserve a sewer in Trenton, NJ, as a historic monument or improve existing water treatment and sewer systems? | |
| = | Vote for $6,000 for a document on Worcestershire sauce or vote for better intelligence that would prevent us from going to war for the wrong reasons ? | |
| = | Vote for $10,000 to study the effect of naval communications on a bull's potency or vote for communications and aerial surveillance of our borders and coastlines ? | |
| = | Vote for $100,000 to research soybean-based ink or vote for funding to increase produce production ? | |
| = | Vote for $1 million for a Seafood Consumer Center or vote for reform for our ridiculous tax system ? | |
| = | $75,000 for Onondaga County for the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame; | |
| = | $250,000 added by the House for the North Creek Ski Bowl in the district of House appropriator John Sweeney (R-N.Y.); | |
| = | $250,000 added by the Senate for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. to support community programs; | |
| = | $775,000 for the Biltmore Hotel in the district of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.); | |
| = | $300,000 for Baltimore for the relocation of the Center Garage; | |
| = | $150,000 added in conference for the Coca-Cola Space Science Center in Columbus, Ga.; | |
| = | $100,000 for the Tiger Woods Foundation; | |
| = | And the one that best epitomizes the misplaced priorities of government: $57,000 spent by the Executive Branch for gold-embossed playing cards on Air Force Two. | |
| = | Congress has given itself a raise 9 times between 1997 to 2007. | |
| = | And all of that above is just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine this going on while many U.S. troops can not get adequate medical care and promised benefits. It's a disgrace! | |
| = | Congress despicably pits American citizens and illegal aliens against each other, refuses to enforce the laws, and refuses to address illegal immigration. Homeland Security is a joke when ports and borders are wide-open. | |
| = | $2.3 Trillion missing (yes, that's Trillion with a "T"), and no one in Congress seems to care (January, 2006). | |
| = | more pork-barrel, waste, graft, and corporate welfare . . . | |
| = | more problems ignored, growing in number and severity . . . | |
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Does any of that (above) strike you as a Congress that is responsible
and accountable ? How could Congress do this while our troops risk life and limb ? Starting unnecessary wars is bad enough, but following it with blunder after blunder makes it even worse. Our troops deserve much better. It isn't just irresponsible. It is dangerous and immoral. It is threatening the future and security of the nation, and heaping an astronomical debt burden onto future generations. The voters can change that. Voters can simply do the one simple, common-sense, non-partisan, inexpensive, peaceful, and responsible thing they were supposed to be doing all along, to peacefully force a balance of power between government and the people (not simply shift it or strip all power to accomplish anything), to peacefully force government to be accountable and responsible too: = Simply stop rewarding irresponsible incumbent politicians by repeatedly re-electing them. Why? Because incumbents will never allow newcomers to pass any badly-needed, common-sense reforms that may possibly reduce incumbents' opportunities for self-gain or the power of their cu$hy, coveted seats. Incumbents always outnumber newcomers. Incumbents tempt, pressure, threaten, shun, and isolate newcomers that do not accept the status quo. And when it comes down to what each political party does (not what they say), there is little difference between the two. What does it matter which is more corrupt and irresponsible, when Congress, as a whole, is corrupt and irresponsible ? Voters have a simple choice: (a) Simply stop rewarding irresponsible incumbent politicians by repeatedly re-electing them. (b) Or, learn the hard way (again). |
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Want to put an end to this irresponsible
pork-barrel, waste, and corruption
? Stop rewarding and empowering irresponsible incumbent politicians by repeatedly re-electing them, and then demand that Do-Nothing Congress finally pass some badly-needed, common-sense, no-brainer reforms, such as a One-Purpose-Per-BILL amendment ! |
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