A class photo of the 110th United States Senate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is a simple question to answer. He has already compromised the bill by giving in and delaying company participation, allowing Congress to stay out, and many others. The problem is that his compromises are with himself, they are all done illegally, and without anyone else’s approval.
All I hear is how bad Congress is by sending all these useless bills before the Senate knowing full well the Senate will not approve them. What Congress is doing is representing the people. The last history lesson I took while they still taught history was that Congressmen represent the people.
I did some math today and calculated that each congressman represents about 703,709 people. The bill they passed to defund the ACA passed 231 to 192. My math says they are speaking for 162,556,779 people. That number of constituents is 54.6% of the total populace. I’d say they are doing a fine damn job of speaking for us. The problem is that the President and the Senate know better what is good for us than we do.
We have one option; vote them out. We all have one vote but we also have feet and a voice. If we walk our neighborhoods knocking on doors to talk to our neighbors with facts we will magnify our voting effect.
If the government shuts down those workers forced to stay at home may get to know what it feels like to lose a job like the 11.3 million private sector workers who are still unemployed. Unfortunately, that is a bad example because the government people will resume working when they resolve the funding bill, and those who have to work without pay will receive back pay.
While we struggle to kill a bad law Great Britain implements new rules allowing people to buy health care they cannot get in their government system. Could it be we are right and Obama and his socialist Democrat Senate are all wrong?
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Exactly! You’re an alert fellow, Joe. So…that means these people who the media says we’re supposed to pity are actually getting paid vacation right now.
If they’re designated “non-essential,” that’s all we really need to know…right?
BTW, stop by my blog. I posted a picture tonight that will give you a guffaw.
– Jeff
Jeff:
I am wrong and right too. Government people who are furloughed without pay lose it. Those who have to work without pay get the back pay. Either way it is not the same as losing a job. Someone on furlough knows his job is secure and he will go back to it. A person who loses a job must search for new work without any guarantee of ever finding another position that pays the same.
Thanks for you astute observation. I did look at the photo on your blog and find it very amusing. Wouldn’t it be a kick if GM had to shut down because they were a non-essential service?
” WE THE PEOPLE ” should not allow a government take over of our healthcare. We must stand behind the congress, men and women who speak the truth on our behalf.
Sad to say it is a done deal. We got it stuck up our butt, and I don’t mean a colonoscopy either.