WHAT IS THE CONGRESS UP TO?

What a weekend. The drama goes on and on like the energizer bunny! We now hear that Senator Nelson from Nebraska will vote for the healthcare bill after receiving a bribe of over 300 million. But let’s talk about the bill first.

The new bill was just put out today, Saturday and senator’s offices are busy going over the 2000 plus pages. Still in the bill, billions in Medicare cuts; cuts to hospitals, nursing homes, home health and hospice. Tax increases for families, businesses and manufactures of medical devices. This bill imposes increases on Medicaid to states except Nebraska and Vermont (those bribes). The news is reporting a middle of the night vote, Monday 0100, 1am for you civilians . So looking at the above, do you think they are doing what the citizens want? Why do this at night, because they are pushing this through and don’t want us to see.
These career politicians are out of control and need to be sent home. Most of them have never ran a business where you make a profit and worry about expenses. Like right now, spend, spend, and spend! They just signed a bill with over 5,000 earmarks, now to get their votes they have bribed at least 3 Senators. If a civilian business did this the CEOs would be thrown in jail, but this is normal business in Washington. Our president campaigned on promising he would veto any bill with “ear marks” PORK in it, have you seen that happen, NO! He campaigned on stopping business as usual, seen any change, NO! Both parties in Washington need to stop the spending! We should not elect/reelect anyone to Washington that does not promise to stop earmarks!

I believe there are two groups of people in our country, those who want to work, make a living, have nice things and those who think the government should provide for them and they sit back and get a share of the nice things others work hard to get. Look at what who pays taxes;

2007 figures Individual Income Tax Payers

Top 1% of wage earners 22.8% of wage earners, pay 40.4% of tax
Top 5% 37.44% of wage earners, pay 60.63 of tax
Top 10% 48.05% of wage earners, pay 71.22% of tax
Top 25% 68% of wage earners, pay 86.59% of tax
Bottom 50% 12.26% of wage earners, pay 2.89% of tax

The average wage for the top 25% $66,500/year. So, those making over $66,500 dollars in 2007 paid 86.6% of income taxes. I don’t think the lower wage earners in our country have anything to complain about in paying taxes. When you look at those making less than $66,500/year only pay 13.4% of the income taxes paid in 2007.

The 1.1 trillion dollar bill just passed had budget increases for next year of many federal departments. We are in a recession, how many of you are getting increases in your business or job? How many are getting raises in your income? Yet the Federal Transportation Department this year went from one employee making over $170,000/year to over 1000 making that much. We are in a recession and who is making the money and getting more jobs, the Federal Government!

Enough is enough!!! Unfortunately our Florida Senator Nelson is towing the Democratic Party line and voting for all this spending. He will not give a good reason for this his support of all this spending other than the dems talking points. The congress and senate are spending billions and trillions of dollars we do not have and just expect us to sit back and worry about paying for this later. They continue to expand government and its control. According to usdebtclock.org there are over 4.2 million federal government workers. There is no sense of constrained spending in Washington! They only care about getting reelected!

So how are you going to feel when your income does not go up, you pay more for health insurance, pay more in taxes to cover all this spending, your home if you own it does not increase in value, and you pay more for things because the value of the dollar keeps declining because of our out of control spending and increasing debt? And the Congressmen and Senators sit up there making their money, benefits, living high on the hog or should I say PORK. When will you get mad enough to do something about it? Call, write, email your Congressmen and Senators demanding they stop the spending, do not vote for this healthcare bill. If they do not listen vote them out and demand term limits!!! And make the new candidates replacing them commit to lower taxes, less government and no PORK! That they run the government like a business!

Don’t get me wrong, we need healthcare reform, several simple things would do it, and it would not take 2000 pages, TORT reform, portability from state to state, no pre-existing conditions, no caps on coverage. It will take months to really know what they have hidden in the 2000 plus pages of this massive bill.

Let me know what you think.

Randy