First, it would be nice if someone is going to blather on about how Obama is the problem as he was the "most liberal Democrat in the Senate" and didn't really make an effort to gain bipartisan support for his proposals, it would be nice if they had the courage of their convictions and put there name to the article.
Apparently, sir/madam, you haven't got the word that we independents find BOTH of your houses unfit. We are tired of your endless political games at the expense of a people facing obvious, serious, difficult problems that need solutions - not more of your gamesmanship.
If you want the support of the American people, solve the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and medical cost problems that our gobbling up the budget and constraining our opportunity to act. And, sir/madam, if you think the Republican party has the solutions to these, someone is likely to ask what the heck you were doing during the Bush administration when you had the opportunity to lead.
Cut the blather and find/create solutions.
Jay Montgomery
Right on, Jay
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ReplyDeleteExcellent post, Jay.
ReplyDeleteA good start would be a citizens petition to put every Congressman and Senator on Social Security and strip away their gold-plated healthcare plan. And don't forget their platinum retirement plan which pays $15,000 per month for anyone fortunate enough to have served 1 term (2 years) in Congress. Take those obscene perks away, level the playing field, then watch for the programs to be quickly dealt with, or wave goodbye to the mass-exodus from the nation's capitol.
Jay and jim are right.It needs to be tore down and rebuilt from the ground up.Do you think Washington and Jefferson Or Madison Had a retirement package.I dont evan think the first couple of presidents and senators and congressmen got a pay check they done it so they could make a better country for all of us.They would have a cow if they seen this country now.
ReplyDeleteBe careful, Jay.....so many people will agree with your comments that you might be drafted to run for political office....good-bye, retirement!
ReplyDeleteYou ARE right on..
I'd like to scrap both parties and start over. I'd also like 100 dollar bills to fall out of the sky and land on my head. Problem is that neither of those things is going to happen.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to declare yourself an independent, condemn both political parties, complain about their lack of solutions, all the while while offering none of your own. I have chosen to operate within the current system and am trying to improve the party more in line with my beliefs. Maybe the complainer should pick a party or try to start a third party - and then he can work hard to find/create some of those solutions he's talking about (good suggestion Alex B).
End The Federal Reserve System. Take our country Back. Obingo is a puppet for the Money Changers as is most of Congress. If you want to know who really controls our country and lifes, then I suggest you watch the video "Money as Debt" by paul gringnon. I assure you there is a reason the government controlled school system keeps the sheep ingnorant about our monetary system.
ReplyDeleteI heard this country has enough money to send half of the nation's Democrats on a one-way trip to Europe so we can be rid of them.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary, I propose we send them all on a one-way trip halfway.
"Maybe the complainer should pick a party or try to start a third party - and then he can work hard to find/create some of those solutions he's talking about."
ReplyDeleteOr maybe a person should just live his life and ignore the state as best he can. Maybe he should smile a lot and dig a garden, and refuse to filter every damn experience through a partisan/political lens. Maybe he should refrain from reducing people to political categories and looking at conversation as the art of divide and conquer.
Maybe he should open the village hall and help his neighbor. Maybe he should be creative and make some music.
Not everyone must bow down at the political altar at which you worship. Regardless of what you believe about your effect on the nation-state, at the end of the day, your are a speck. You can keep on screaming at the tornado while it remains oblivious to you. Or you can relax a bit and enjoy your life.
Deeply political people seem particularly miserable to me. The shouting and gnashing of teeth around here over issues almost always tangential to any one individual's lived experience is proof positive of that.
I have left one comment on this subject.I will leave one more and im done.I f so many people are against both parties this bad maybe there should be a third party.I mean regardless if you are demacrat or republican you can not argue that neither party has done a lot for this country since 2001.So here is a thought print up some flyers and pass them out.Hold a meeting and see what happens.It might work or it might not.You dont know until you try.I would evan be willing to help get it started.
ReplyDeletePlant your garden then. Enjoy it. The other specks and I are going to keep fighting to make the world a better place.
ReplyDelete"Plant your garden then. Enjoy it. The other specks and I are going to keep fighting to make the world a better place."
ReplyDeleteLet me know how that works out for you. So far, I'm not seeing much. Lots and lots of words and griping (and pointing out how the other man is the source of all our woes); very little action.
From what I see around here, I'm going to kindly ask you to leave me out of your plans "to make the world a better place." Doesn't much seem to be like the kind of world I want to live in.
To quote Hillel (and to turn Jesus's words around a bit): "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."
I love my website. I would point out that my original article made exactly one point ... that Obama's being hypocritical to ask for civility after not being very civil himself. That's all I wrote ... and that one point is beyond objective argument (I think).
ReplyDeleteAnd my punishment for making that one point is to get attacked by Mr. Montgomery ... and even then I printed what he had to say in full (which I don't think really was a rebuttal to what I wrote, and most of which I agree with).
And now you ... Mr./Ms. Anonymous ... let's see what you have to say about me. I'm hateful. I'm lots of words and griping. I'm a speck. I need to relax. I like to gnash my teeth. And I'm miserable.
Wow. How could you know me so well? Or maybe you're really talking about somebody else?
I don't know if you know me, but it is amazingly, incredibly ironic (and wrong) to claim I'm unhappy at this particular point in my life. If you only knew ... :). Take your pschyo-babble and Hillel quotes somewhere else, respectfully.
Both parties have thier problems, and I am Independant, but the GOP is trying to get their party back and are working hard doing so. Thats more than I can say for the "other" party.The other party thinks they can do no wrong, will listen to nobody and have an ego the size of Texas.Personally, I want the GOP to show change within the party and I would no longer be an Independant. This stuping to name calling and nasty posts remind me of all Dem. posters I have come into contact with. It's like they do not know how to have a civil conversation without calling names or being hateful if you disagree. No thanks to that party! I want a party who can debate intelligently.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet you $20 that nobama will still be talking about this same thing with no action 6 months from now.
ReplyDeleteHe's all talk, talk, talk, me, me, me, and cry, cry, cry......
First I would suggest to everyone, checkout and really study the "FairTax". We, the taxpaying people, need to limit the monies that government can collect. That will automatically shrink the size of the federal government and stop the entitlement spending, by both parties, that is costing taxpayers tremendously and let the people control government with their wallets. We need term limits on ALL senators and representitives, this will limit the abilities of lobbyists' in D.C. This needs to be an ammendment to the constitution, maybe a constitutional convention will be needed. The federal government has been allowed, over the years, to stretch the limitations of the constitution into states rights and needs stopped in all states. This needs done at the State levels of government. I would also suggest that maybe some coalition could be formed to raise monies and petitions for ballot initiatives to reduce state and local taxes to get control of these out of control spending entities to reduce wasteful spending and limit the power of these governments and then force them to work for the people instead of growing the bureaucracy. We are being led down a path into forced servitude to government and it needs to stop. A third party is really not viable as it would surely place democrats in perpetual control.
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ReplyDeleteWell said. From what I read, the “Fair Tax” is a viable option to fund the government.