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Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
16. Ideas
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:24 PM
Mar 2015

Here is an idea, let these overpaid, part time workers in elected office pay for their own healthcare. Pay them ONLY for the hours they show up for work, and vote on bills. Cut their "aides" down to two each instead of whole groups following them around like household help. Take away their passports to stop these "fact finding missions" overseas with their families in tow. Have the Sunday bobble head threads publish how much they are paid to spout their hatred of the President every week. Make it a LAW that whenever they give a speech, they must report who their "donors" are, who they are grifting from. STOP production of the new plane that has gone BILLIONS over budget, and likely will cost even more when finally completed. Cut the Pentagon budget, with fewer generals, there will be less wars. Who needs them if we have peace in our lifetime?

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More money for war, more war, less money for people, less food, less health care. djean111 Mar 2015 #1
Fuck any and all SamKnause Mar 2015 #2
This is what we get for alway electing these freaks in off years. When will we ever learn? jwirr Mar 2015 #3
"we" ??? L0oniX Mar 2015 #6
The nation. We. jwirr Mar 2015 #8
Yeah. Those who voted for this sort of thing... Orsino Mar 2015 #18
Exactly jwirr Mar 2015 #19
when does this rise to the level of genocide? prole-cide? zazen Mar 2015 #4
If you have repub friends make sure they know about this. L0oniX Mar 2015 #5
still thinking of voting third party, anyone? nt geek tragedy Mar 2015 #7
.. Cha Mar 2015 #9
GOP plans to rein in eating and living - should be the story line. Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2015 #10
AP: Stenographer for the GOP. Pseudo-journalists and analysts only when liberals are in their sights. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #11
Death Panel, Death Panel, Death Panel. SoapBox Mar 2015 #12
well there are the Dems sound bites from now on Backwoodsrider Mar 2015 #13
and, now big is their pay cut going to be CountAllVotes Mar 2015 #14
Two quick points - FairWinds Mar 2015 #15
Ideas Scarsdale Mar 2015 #16
Stand strong against these bastards! NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #17
So how else can they give more tax breaks to their cronies? Vinca Mar 2015 #20
Fuck the poor, fuck the elderly tabasco Mar 2015 #21
Balance the budget Bartlet Mar 2015 #22
The GOP is not sudddenly going to come to its senses. We need a revolution to take back Washington blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #23
And I'd like to rein in the corporate criminal element LuckyLib Mar 2015 #24
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