I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to send a letter to all of my representatives saying, "unless you guys get this resolved, you will all be out of office."

Originally Posted by Talk Host

I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to send a letter to all of my representatives saying, "unless you guys get this resolved, you will all be out of office."

There's an email going around stating that instead of our representatives putting fear into the elderly by saying that Social Security checks and Medicare will not be upheld , or the checks will not be mailed out.....they should HOLD UP ALL GOVERNMENT WORKERS checks instead. This will solve the problem very quickly.....in other words, the Senators, Congressmen, etc.

Hubby adds, "All representatives should only get one term in office......if that's not possible, just do not vote them back in".

I don't know about you guys, but I'd like to send a letter to all of my representatives saying, "unless you guys get this resolved, you will all be out of office."


Or we should start flooding their offices with phone calls. I plan on doing that today after wacthing the news last night. I already have the numbers as I have done this before with other issues.

Who would of ever thought this could happen in America?

Originally Posted by senior citizen

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Hubby adds, "All representatives should only get one term in office......if that's not possible, just do not vote them back in".

Exactly. They've had their chance to work for their constituents instead of their party first, so put them back into the real world and let them go job hunting like the rest of us..

Originally Posted by ilovetv

Exactly. They've had their chance to work for their constituents instead of their party first, so put them back into the real world and let them go job hunting like the rest of us..

With their generous pensions with minimal time served, there is no urgency for an employment search. Ahh pensions, another subject that gets scant attention but will have enormous consequences with our budget.

Originally Posted by senior citizen

There's an email going around stating that instead of our representatives putting fear into the elderly by saying that Social Security checks and Medicare will not be upheld , or the checks will not be mailed out.....they should HOLD UP ALL GOVERNMENT WORKERS checks instead. This will solve the problem very quickly.....in other words, the Senators, Congressmen, etc.

Hubby adds, "All representatives should only get one term in office......if that's not possible, just do not vote them back in".

The senators and congressmen make up less than 1% or government workers, let's not penalize the other 99% for the incompetence of the less than 1%.

Originally Posted by jackz

The senators and congressmen make up less than 1% or government workers, let's not penalize the other 99% for the incompetence of the less than 1%.

Penalization is problematic with the powers of their union. What percentage of unions are government "workers"

What percentage of incompetence can be found in the 99% ?

I think were mixing apples and oranges.

Originally Posted by jackz

The senators and congressmen make up less than 1% or government workers, let's not penalize the other 99% for the incompetence of the less than 1%.

I meant the senators and congressmen.

Shouldn't this have gone to the political section

It's interesting to note that Obama keeps shaming the Congress for not compromising. That word was absent when he was stuffing down his health care bill.

Originally Posted by DDoug

Shouldn't this have gone to the political section

In a word - Yes...

Originally Posted by trichard

It's interesting to note that Obama keeps shaming the Congress for not compromising. That word was absent when he was stuffing down his health care bill.

Good point.

Originally Posted by DDoug

Shouldn't this have gone to the political section

I thought about that, but doesn't this transcend politics. Isn't it at the core of the very financial stability of every person in the US, which includes The Villages.

I think politics is squaring off of Ds versus Rs and libs versus conservs. This topic is about what's going to happen to your stock portfolio, your retirement, your savings, your income. Just because politicians are the ones holding our well being in the balance, doesn't make it a discussion of politics. I'm talking about the human beings sitting in those chairs in Washington, those that we put there to look after us. Now, they are screwing with us instead. Not political.

I don't think the discussion of a, say corrupt sheriff, would be political just because he/she is a democrat or republican. Sticking it in the political forum will not make it go away.

Originally Posted by DDoug

Shouldn't this have gone to the political section

IMHO, not really and that's the problem. This should not be about politics but what's best for the economy as a whole. I work in a chemical plant that is going all out making over 250 million pounds of product per year. Going into billions of pounds of consumer goods per year. That being said we have the fewest employees per pound produced probably in the history of this 62 year old plant. I'm doing two jobs now but wait till I say I'm retiring! They'll be shocked! 18 month 5 days left!

The only reason I said this is I was told once that something was political when I thought it wasn't. If you don't want to play to your rules don't.