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Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on August 9, 2011 at 5:15pm

"If the US Government was a family—they would be making $58,000 a year, spending $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand." —Dave Ramsey

 

 

Comment by ctyankee on August 9, 2011 at 11:42am

Thanks Charles, but actually, I'm asking you to trust me with your vote.  ;^) 

 

Although that's all any new politico can do.  Only after serving well can I claim to have earned it.  That's going to be one of my messages; a la campaign rhetoric...

 

"You've trusted the politicos in Washington with your vote.  Now ask yourself these questions: Have they earned your trust?  Did they use your trust well?  Are you going to continue to allow them to abuse that trust?"

 

Or something like that...  I want to be clear to folks that they are taking a chance on me, and that I will do my best to earn the trust they would extend to me.  To be blunt that is something that the Parties cannot address.  The track record of politicos is that selling out is du rigeuer behavior in DC, and that co-opting the freshmen to the needs of the leadership is a priori action & expectation.  I'm stating that I know of those attacks and that my resistance to gross and vulgar assimilation is how I expect to be judged.

 

So in the mean time I'll just say: "Thank you for your support." (Wasn't that the Bartles & James slogan?) Hmmm???

Comment by Charles on August 9, 2011 at 10:25am

You've earned my vote.

Comment by ctyankee on August 9, 2011 at 10:15am

Actually, I'm planning on embarrassing my opponents so much that they will have to concur with my position on the 50% deadwood, lest they infuriate their contributing base... (who happen to be the wealthy) Whoops! Did I let that dirty little secret out??? ;^)

@Charles, Fingerpointing at me???  I'm counting on it!!!  I'm no politico, I'm an engineer, an engineer that has reached the limit of his ability to accept the status quo in DC -- I don't want to become a politico -- I see running for office and serving as a civic duty -- not a career goal.  I'll go to DC and serve, then I'll CHEERFULLY return to my lab and bench and shop -- the way the FOUNDERS intended.

 

Libertarian: Less Government. More Freedom.

Comment by Charles on August 9, 2011 at 10:01am

ctyankee,

  So what you say is that there is another side to "shared sacrafice" that this WH does not like to address? Hmmm....makes sense to me.

 

Be careful in the Senate.....it looks like some Republicans in the House tried to stand up, be the adult in the room, make those tuff decisions, and address the out of control debt. What did they get but fingers pointed at them for a drop in the market that had more to do with bad economic data and expanding issues in Europe rather than a downgrade in credit rating that the Market had mostly priced in already. Changing Washington will be a challenge!

Comment by ctyankee on August 9, 2011 at 9:09am

@I Yam asked: "What politician is going to promise you that -- and if he/she did, would they even get elected." 

Hmmm.  All I can say is that when I make it to the Senate I'll work *very* hard to fix the flaws that are responsible for the current troubles.  We're stuck in a very deep rut, and getting out will take *enormous* effort -- just like everything else that is worthwhile.  The biggest challenge is to get *everyone* involved in the effort!

50% of the people are not pulling their weight -- heck, they are deadweight.  At best, we should try to get them to participate again; if nothing else, we must demonstrate that they will no longer be tolerated as freeloading burdens.

I'm not saying we would cut-off those that we owe a true social debt to, but we must no longer punish those that contribute for the benefit of those that claim their *entitlement* is sufficient.

Just like the Westward settlers of previous centuries, sometimes you have to abandon the broken wagon to complete the journey.  We'll take what we can, and shed the useless burden to reach our goal.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on August 8, 2011 at 10:13pm

that is my point...finger pointing only delays trying to make progress.....it's like driving in the snow and running off the side of the road...does it matter who was driving when you need to get the car out of the ditch?

Comment by Robert Hartman on August 8, 2011 at 9:43pm

http://nation.foxnews.com/marc​o-rubio/2011/07/30/showdown-ru​bio-t...

Comment by Robert Hartman on August 8, 2011 at 9:23pm

A little finger pointing both ways

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on August 8, 2011 at 9:00pm

Robert, I couldn't agree more...I told Clay H on his FB page today....I could less whose fault all this was....SOLVE THE PROBLEM!!!

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