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[NightmarePatrol]

People send money a thousand or more miles away hoping for a return on their investment all the time... In Las Vegas. I wonder what the house odds are in Washington DC?

[lifefeedsonlife]

I guess they're better if you have a dealer like Murtha as opposed to one like Dahlkemper.

[gore range]

....regarding the recent postings on the $8 billion in stim-moo-lie cash awarded to the 'not-so-high-speed' rail system (that's another story unto itself )-

....I spotted  only the first 3 paragraphs of this gem buried at the bottom of the almost full-page "we-buy-gold" ad on page 6 of today's Denver Post ....[/]

[CindyLouWho]

I'm becomin more and more scared of the spendin......I have always been aware but it's startin to really scare me in recent months.....I don't think this is the the Obamanites were hopin for when they voted......

[Puffin]

Did you know the 541 members of Congress employ 23,000 staff members. The boss is only in town for less than 100 days a year. Good work if you can get it!

http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly35.asp

[Lifetime]

Law is for King and Pauper alike.....
 
I am not condoning all the "employees" of the Legislators...
 
Here is what I see.... Most of the "employees" are INTERNS. These are school/College kids who want this type of assignment. I know a young lady who has routed AGAINST the Government but because she is a Political Science Major in the DC area and wanted to intern to get in the "game". Another item about this..... In the "acquiring" of this position.... I don't think the "minimum wage" law applies. This follows much like the SMOKING BAN in Government buildings.... When I walked the halls on the Hill in the past,  I noticed ashtrays in the halls and offices... Hmmmmm I know..must be for used chewing gum  .
 
I am also in agreement.... these Legislators CAN do without alot of these staff members. I don't think the origial intent was to have a crew at their beck and call.... and for that matter, the job of Legislator was not intended to be much more than temporary at best. We ALL have lost the original intent. Time to go back to basics.
 
In the beginning, I think the House of Representatives was the only and original house.... elected by the people. Then there was a worry of Mob Rule Power for the Larger States so the House of Representatives PICKED 2 Senators for each State to level the field. Later.... the Senate was elected... By the people.
 
 

Did you know the 541 members of Congress employ 23,000 staff members. The boss is only in town for less than 100 days a year. Good work if you can get it!

[url=http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly35.asp]http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly35.asp[/url]

[lifefeedsonlife]

Here's some food for thought. I heard today that .42 of every American dollar is essentially borrowed money. Think about that.

[CindyLouWho]

So I'm like 40% more broke than I thouht?  Just super.....

[Puffin]

but with 3% inflation your better off today than tomorrow. Spend it now!!

[IC2ITUC]

This is kind of long but I think it is food for thought. Could he be correct?

 
 
   

[size=12pt][/font][/size] [size=12pt][/font][/size] [size=12pt][/font][/size] [size=12pt][/font][/size] [size=12pt][/font][/size] [size=12pt][/font][/size] [size=12pt]  [size=2][size=11pt][/size][/color][/font][/font][/size][/font][/size] [/] [][/] [][/][]   I can't believe this is from anyone associated with Harvard. I hope you find the time to read this with an open mind.[color=rgb(0,32,96)] [/size][/size][/color][/i]It's interesting.  Please read it with the open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or right, but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong..  It's like the line below says, "what if he is right?" Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is wrong. What if he is right?   David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal .. He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976. He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College. He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press. Dr. David Kaiser History Unfolding I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is some thing happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not. We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of co llapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x  ten....And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.) Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning.. As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the ave rage German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now. And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker.. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course.  How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .... . .. change. And the people surely got what they voted for. If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books. So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to. Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them. As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.. I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.. I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections. David Kaiser    Jamestown , Rhode Island United States          Pass this along. Perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed.......    [/b][/] [][/] [] [/] [][/] [][/][][/] [][/] [][/][][/] [][/] [][/][/t][/t][]                                                       [/]

[gore range]

...I can't believe this is associated with anybody from Harvard...

.... it's not-....


....any time something like this comes across my screen- I run a GOOGLE/Snopes/Urban Legends check on them just to put it in the proper sourcing/context....

[Puffin]

there is kind of a noticable trend that when they say "pass it on to your friends", they soon show up in snopes

[CindyLouWho]

Umm, what was that supposed to be anyway?  I read it and only hear that he is - what - inexperienced? - and some dumb comparison to Hitler? 

[IC2ITUC]

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater".  I just thought that some of the things that he raises may be food for thought.  Obama's view for America is not shared by many who still believe in the American Spirit and founding ways.  More people who are going about their daily lives in common ordinary ways and pay little attention to politics, new laws being made, etc., are starting to sense that something doesn't seem right.  Many are tapping into it through intuition, others thoughts, and their own Spirit connection and knowledge.  This is my opinion and the future will reveal the story's ending.

[CindyLouWho]

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools

Really?  Intentionally?  How so?

Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

Remember "No Child Left Behind?"   Not Obama's baby btw.   And trust me, parents ARE, indeed, revoltin.  People are homeschoolin and pullin their kids OUT OF the public school system at an epidemic rate. 

I just thought that some of the things that he raises may be food for thought.

The only thin I see raised is a comparison to Hitler.  Jeez.  Did I miss somethin?

Obama's view for America is not shared by many who still believe in the American Spirit and founding ways.

Funny....he WON the election and still has a 50% approval ratin even with all the pissin and moanin I hear.

This is my opinion

I missed the whole opinion part.  Where was it? 

I did not vote for Obama btw.....your whole copy/paste whatever-it-is just doesn't say anythin is all......except make a hilarious half-ass comparison to someone who killed millions of jewish people.