Amendment Proposal

I'll be the first one to get that started Kim! Now, I figure that even if everybody sent a copy of that to their Congressman/woman, there would still be nothing done on THEIR end, since damned few of any of them on Capitol Hill follow our Constitution to BEGIN with................but maybe everyone who GETS these emails will just VOTE these bums OUT, as they should ANYWAY!

Off topic (sorry). Obama's aunt who is here illegally has surfaced in the news...

http://www.idahostatesman.com/aptopstori...

And it says Obama has not talked to her since 2008 right before the election. Hmmmmmm.

Regarding the current topic on this blog---we will see if it passes. Bets anyone? Mine is a no. Good idea however and the way that it should have been all along.

http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-pub...

Missy, if you do a little background check on "factcheck.org", and on Annenberg itself, you'll find that whole outfit not overly credible, and the Bill Ayers coverup is a prime example.

For the most part, I believe what I see and tend to follow my instincts.

Do YOU see what's going on in this country?

Videotape is hell, bud......'cause it RECORDS perpetually what the liars have said, and when it's flashed again in front of us later when we ALL see it for what it has REALLY been...............they can't retract.

God has nothing to do with science.

And when you speak of conspiracy to control, what the hell do you think this government has been doing with these takeovers, backdoor deals, shutting out of entire parties and threatening common folks with fines and/or jail if they DON'T buy insurance policies?

When they OPENLY tell the American people that it doesn't MATTER what the majority want, they're gonna push their agendas through, come hell or high water, THAT isn't intended control either?

What was it that Nancy said just 2 days ago?.........."If we can't get over the fence, we'll go around it. If we hit a wall, we'll POLE VAULT over it, but whatever it takes, we're gonna get this passed."

"Conspiracy to control?" It's pretty plain they've already got YOU programmed.

As for "stubborness and fear of being wrong?"......

Dude.....you can't begin to KNOW how much I WANT to be wrong.......and I'm gonna wake up one morning and what's happening in this country has all just been a bad dream.............a FIGMENT of my friggin' imagination!

I WOULD LOVE TO BE WRONG about what I am SEEING!

These guys are fleecing the safe and YOU guys are holding the flashlight for 'em.

But guess what?...........they don't intend to give you the split they promised you!

You guys have been USED! Don't you see that?

Unbelievable..................well, maybe NOT so unbelievable.

Great to hear from you censored..now go crawl back under your rock!

I sincerely apologize if I got that wrong, Censored, but if I recall, I believe you said that about 4 or 5 months ago during a heated debate.

Might have been Twil, but I'm thinking that was you. (There's been a helluva lot of dialogue over this past year), but I've never been too big to apologize for being wrong when I am.

Seems to me it was YOU that said that. if not, I'll offer a public apology to you right here and now.

I've already forward it to everybody on my list. I see little to no chance of the Congress ITSELF fixing it and cutting into their own dessert table, but I sincerely DO believe there's gonna be a BUNCH of them finding themselves out of a job before this year is out.

Our Constitution isn't. I wasn't an honor student in high school. Spent more time pursuing girls than grades, and there's nothing in our Constitutuion that confuses ME.............so I don't know what the degree of difficulty is in D.C.

Oh, and thanks for clearing that other item up, Twil..................my sincerest apology, Censored.

Have it your own way. You're entitled to your opinion like anyone else.

Paredon me though, while I CONTINUE to mistrust this socialist government, and do everything I can to help toss these jackals out of office.

What I have been thinking about these days is if Obama doesn't get re-elected what do we have to look forward to? Seems to me all politicians are the same ............promises promises that never happen !!

If Obama doesn't get re-elected (as well he SHOULDN'T), I think ANYTHING would be better than what we have now.

The Democrats in Georgia have a guy named Zell Miller, a former Lt Gov and now senator or congressman. Miller operates on COMMON SENSE, which is unknown in D.C., but he would make a good President.

On our side if the street, Mike Huckabee comes quickly to mind and so does Ron Paul.

Fly in the buttermilk is that by the time the Obama/Reid/Pelosi machine get tossed out, there might not be much left to try to save.

Who would want this mess NOW?....let alone later?

Interesting reference, Censored.

If you were trying to display comparisons of THEN and NOW, you missed a few.

Today's tea parties haven't turned into an all-out revolt, (yet)

If/when it DOES come to it, we're a hell of a lot better prepared than our ancestors ever were.........and.........

Without yet firing a shot, the tea parties of today have brought enough corruption into light, the people in Virginia are awake. The people in New Jersey are awake, even the people in MASSACHUSETTS are awake!

In Nevada, home to Las Vegas where "nobody should be going" according to the "messiah", THEY are DEFINITELY stired up and Harry Reid is on HIS way out in November (he was trailing anyway, and now he'll be buried).

We're gonna see a lot of numbers change because of these old "paranoid windbags" of the tea parties. Some of you on the left think this is all a "Republican thing."

Not so, if the one in Boise was any indication. I PERSONALLY marched and carried a sign right alongside of Democrats and Independents.

That website reference might serve whatever purpose you want it to serve in your own mind, but these "tea parties" a few of you might like to mock, are in fact. working pretty well.

Corruption is being exposed, the left is losing seats and hopefully a few on the RIGHT that need to go as well. The "Chicago connection" ain't lookin' too good right now either.

With a SUPER MAJORITY under both (D) columns, the great "community organizer" couldn't even pull THEM together to accomplish anything. Prior to Scott Brown, Obama and Pelosi held all the cards, no filibuster from the right----all they could do was snarl.

But the LEFT fought amongst themselves.........often behind closed doors..

This was the "change and transparency" that was coming.

The deer was TIED to the tree, the left had the entire box of ammo and STILL couldn't get the job done.

Even beyond the tea parties, the American people are finally starting to see through this smoke & mirrors trick. And not a moment too soon, I might add.

Censored, I gotta figure you AREN'T a Beck/Hannity/O'Reilly fan like the majority of news listeners are today, so as a courtesy, I'll give you a quick update............

They just had a huge tea party convention, and the ball will continue to roll this year, that dreaded spotlight of exposure will brightly shine over these snakes as the mid-terms approach.

And to those out there who think these tea parties are just an anti-Obama thing and nothing further.........well, you might even be right in ONE case I know of. I remember seeing one protestor last year as we marched toward the State Capitol. He was carrying a sign that read, "I'll give YOUR President the same respect you gave MINE!"

While I never liked NOR supported George Bush, I thought that sign was pretty appropriate.

Remember those calendars in the retail stores? The "BUSH countdown till he leaves office" ones? Sure, you remember. They were pretty funny weren't they? Now, I wasn't offended personally, because the guy WAS an inept leader.................but no matter WHAT Obama does, you will never see a calendar like that on HIM.

That would be "racist", wouldn't it?

Ah...........November..............hurry up and GET here!

Yeah, that IS strange. You know Twil, in the early 50's, cowboy star Roy Rogers made a movie called the Gay Ranchero, which had NOTHING to do with homosexuality. Back then, "gay" merely meant happy.

Of course, when I was a kid, "grass" was something you walked on, and "coke" was something you drank.

Times change.............not often for the better, but times change. So does some of the language.

I think the founders had a pretty clear vision of how this nation should be preserved, having just fought out from under a tyranny. Our Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence was WELL thought out, under the heat of reality!

Isn't it interesting that one of the PRIMERS to the FIRST revolution was heavy taxes and intrusion of rights............hmmmmmmmm......

Bush's bumbling of things made it easy for ANYBODY on the other side to win that last election. "Knee jerk" was well laid out for Obama. People wanted change at ANY price.........and they're gettin' it.

Unfortunately for this new administration, the American people aren't as blind and stupid as they had hoped for.

"Third time WASN'T the charm"............by that I mean the 3 phases of Obama...........

1. He campaigned on transparency, bi-partisonship, elimination of lobbyists and earmarks. 52% of this country went nuts and swarmed around him all the way to the inauguration.

2. 2,000 page bills un-read,and closed-door deals is not transparency. Shutting the other party OUT is not "bi-partisonship". The "Lousiana purchase", "cornhusker kick-back" and all these "czars"..........isn't getting rid of lobbyists.

3. REPEATING all of this same hype during the State of the Union is utterly stupid, when the whole country has witnessed for itself that it was all a lie the FIRST time around.

Approval is steadily dropping, seats are being lost, some of the "brethren" is bailing ans still the Pelosi machine is beating the same drum that fewer and fewer are listening to.

Joe Biden spoke "defeatist" FLUENTLY during the Bush surge in Iraq, but now lauds the troops coming home "victoriously under the Obama/Biden banners................gimme a break, Joe. YOU and YOURS had nothing to do with it...........no credit here, pal.

(Along those lines, at least that piece of crap Murtha is gone now too........so HE won't be court-martialling any more Marines for doing their friggin' jobs!)--------finally being rid of "Uncle Ted" didn't hurt the freedom of this country either.

Whatever happened to the internet inventor and dumb-bell peace prize winner Uncle Al? Is he still preaching global warming as Washington D.C. keeps getting buried under more and more snow?

I still wanna know what the "annointed one" has accomplished at ANY time in his life to have been awarded the Nobel................

We're countin' down too..............first November.....then 2012

Beck had an interesting show last night. Part of it was naming off off 15 highest debtor nations (thr ones we owe money to.

Did you know we owe over 120 billion to the RUSSIANS?................and over 200 Billion to the British! The same people we broke away from!

This is ABSURD!......and Congress will STILL not cease all their day-to-day wasteful spending!

We have GOT to stop being Democrats and Republicans for at least ONE cycle in our lives and vote the incumbants who are in on all this. OUT!...O-U-T.............OUT!

We still have the power at the ballot box to save what's left, and if we don't, we don't deserve freedom of speech, the freedom to assemble or any others.

WE are the "store managers" and our "employees" are STEALING from us. If we don't have sense enough to FIRE them--------------then it is SHAME ON US when we go out of business.

I do not exept my "fellow Republicans" either. There are some of THEM who need to be bounced out as well.

That we DO! By returning these same thieves into office term after term..............we're telling them that they have our approval of the "great job they're doing."

thanks for the heads up.

I guess we need to elect new politicians with the backbone needed to withstand the harsh criticism that will come their way when they refuse to keep borrowing. Or we need to implore American people to not seek government intervention as the fix-all to any economic downturn. The lender needs to man up o the lendee needs to dig itself out its hole. Either way, tough choices will need to be made.

Americans, having been so well off, are a bit like spoiled brats who feel that they are owed this existence. Those of the past worked their ever-living tails off to make it this way.

One example that comes to mind is this. I was on a plane bound to Seattle last year. I was talking to a gentleman. Neither of us knew anything about the other. He goes on to tell me that his employees staged a mini-mutiny because he would not offer health insurance to them free of charge. He even showed them the raw numbers to show that this small business did not generate enough profit to warrant that. These same employees were mostly conservative, christian, working-class, salt-of-the-earth types. They continue to gripe feeling that the owner (this gentleman) is simply being cheap and does not value them. I would side with the owner. If offering health insurance to employees would result in eventual price increases and/or bankruptcy then dont offer it. He has an obligation to keep the business going. Having a job for the long run is better than being employed for 6 months but being insured for that short time. These same employees went on to try and have him investigated for paying low wages. Again, he showed them that he was paying them as much as he could. It comes down to this idea that management is out to gauge the lower class. Being the owner or mgmt. must mean that this person is arrogant and elitist.

These same workers are the people that stand up at town hall meetings and complain that the world is not working out for them. Employers are screwing them and the govt. is standing by and doing nothing. They demand action. Politicians are supposed to act upon the needs/desires of their constituents. Here we go with govt. intervention yet again. ......

Just curious, what is your take on these employees who cant accept that their employer is not out to screw them. He is being prudent and financially sound by not offering perks he cant afford and not artificially hiking above what the business allows. He even showed them the raw numbers to back this up and they still cant get past their distrust of anyone who is not one of them. I dont feel that this is an isolated situation.

Workers at GM and Ford have been doing this for the last decade. Knowing that they were losing competitive edge kept campaigning for higher wages knowing that it would lead to their imminent demise and loss of jobs.

I agree. I think that those people who would be willing to jeopardize their job in the name of pride and/or excess are counterproductive to what most want/need. Reading this blog and most editorials, I find that most blue-collar types are fixed in their thinking that anybody who is not one of them is working against them. Mgmt. or ownership inherently is out to screw them so they should keep campaigning for more without any resort to reason or logic. Blindly crusading is just as bad as sitting by and getting screwed.

As i read the newspaper yesterday, I saw that they are proposing tax increases next year in Idaho. One can look at the Idaho Statesman website to get the details. One short thought.

Yes, stimulus funds will run out. The tide of economic activity caused by that stimulus will subside. That is rather basic. My concern is that legislators will make this shortcoming an avenue to advance more frivolous matters. Let me elaborate.

Joe Senator from Pocatello sees this coming. He knows that to buoy the state budget (with its incessant waste) there will be a chance to increase tax revenues. Increased revenues means that there will be greater odds that his frivolous, pork-barrel, and completely unnecessary item will get funding. Now that prevents him from really caring about the present. Instead of helping the present day situation and avoiding any possible tax increase, he will just play dumb and say the right things.

What can we do as citizens? One idea is to not campaign for more stimulus funds. Let some things that are nice but not necessary go away. Not every thing given money by the state is absolutely necessary. Let those projects be put on ice til later no matter how unpopular that idea might be. Just an idea that I have had percolating for awhile.

A bit abstract but its been brewing in my twisted mind for a few days. Its hard to articulate these ideas without sounding like a nutcase.

By the way, did you see the interview that Jim Risch did concerning those people in Haiti and most of them being released. How he ended that was a nice dig at the media.

A new bill has passed or will so soon concerning letting employers off the hook for social security tax if they hire new employees. There is more to it but one can read that on their own.

Only one short comment. I think that it has good intentions. It is a decent idea but it will only benefit those who are already hiring. For those who dont have the position to hire more, this is just noise.

Will this benefit some? Yes and I am happy for those who are able to get off the bread line. My criticism is that politicians will spin this into being some cure all. It is a very small adjustment and will have minimal impact. People dont want to hear about small changes. They want sweeping, widespread, general fixes and this is not it. I would be curious to know what states ultimately benefit the most.