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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PHIal8vjXY3V4BRtXgGrXdGyGYY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PHIal8vjXY3V4BRtXgGrXdGyGYY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PHIal8vjXY3V4BRtXgGrXdGyGYY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PHIal8vjXY3V4BRtXgGrXdGyGYY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It was great to hear those golden words come from the mouth of Chris Dodd today. Wednesday, January 5, 2010. He gave a Press conference and gathered all the family up around him to tell the media his news; the golden announcement, “He will not run for re-election when his term ends.”&amp;nbsp; How sad, he’s only been there eight terms: three decades; he took money from Countrywide, and wrote legislature that would give million of dollars to Bank of America in the stimulus; and he also wrote legislation that would approve AIG executives receiving millions of dollars of bonuses, even though they had received stimulus money. When I say, “how sad.” you know I’m jesting; I hope!&lt;br /&gt;
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Dodd said, "In the long sweep of American history there are moments for each elected public official to step aside and let someone else step up. This is my moment to step aside," . He told reporters, "I'm very proud of the job I've done and the results delivered. But none of us is irreplaceable. None of us are indispensable, and those who think otherwise are dangerous."&amp;nbsp; Dodd faced a 40 percent job approval and his chance at re-election was written off by many Democrats. 60 percent of Connecticut voters had lost their faith in him, and probably would not support him in election. It’s bad when there is no candidate and you can see the result of the election; but that’s how it was.&amp;nbsp; Many believe the Democratic Party of Connecticut could read the writing on the wall that Dodd would loose his reelection bid. &lt;br /&gt;
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The president said, "Chris Dodd has devoted his life to public service, while his work in the Senate is not yet finished, his leadership in that institution will be missed."&amp;nbsp; Dodd’s stepping aside represents the departure of one of the most powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill on financial issues-- if not the most powerful. &lt;br /&gt;
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Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota., announced his surprise decision to retire instead of seeking re-election this year. So there is a chance in 2010 for Conservative’s to take back the Senate, along with the House members that decided to step aside. Maybe Harry Reid; Blanch Lincoln; David Pryor; and Nancy Pelosa will be next to be forced out of office due to failing poll numbers. We can hope, can’t we?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Eesfw-4pe3L0IS3y6hi8xmsf_4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Eesfw-4pe3L0IS3y6hi8xmsf_4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What is wrong with people today? What makes a person need to work out their problems with a gun; killing innocent people? There is no problem large enough that death should be the solution to the problem, no problem that using a little sense won’t lead to an answer to the situation that is divesting life for you. I’ve faced some life shattering problems in my life, so I know what the huge problems of life feel like; I didn’t kill anyone. I’ve lost two wives due to their cheating during my life; faced bills bigger than the amount of money I had; raised my twelve week old daughter when my first wife ran off; had a new house go into foreclosure when my second wife ran off with her boss; had my whole life turned upside down by bankruptcy; and drove an old beat-up car instead of a new, shimmy one: I didn’t kill anyone.&lt;br /&gt;
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You would think by the actions of some people we lived during the time of the old western days. If something goes wrong, grab your six shooter and rush out on the street and square off against the one that wronged you. Except during those days, everybody carried a six shooter and was able to defend themselves. Maybe, we need to go back to that day; protecting ourselves and the weaker ones. If there had been someone at one of those shootings in the past few weeks, there might not be fourteen innocent people dead; or one innocent man of God, just preaching in his pulpit on a Sunday morning; or three policemen; college students; nursing home residents; or the members of a man’s family; not to mention all the school shootings.&lt;br /&gt;
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It’s not even safe to go to church, without the fear a nut will bust in during the service and shoot up the place and the parishioners. And the reason given; he was depressed because he lost his job; his wife, girlfriend, or significant other; his dog ran off; Give me a break, they make pills for depression. If you think you’re going to arm yourself with a gun and go on a spree, get to the Doctor and get some pills. Sane normal people take pills and they don’t shoot people.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6505607139512575895-6106512812324857396?l=www.thehillbillyjournal.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6505607139512575895/posts/default/6106512812324857396?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6505607139512575895/posts/default/6106512812324857396?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thehillbillyjournal.com/2010/01/5-top-story-of-2009-when-did-gun-become.html" title="&lt;a name=&quot;codewordb&quot;&gt;#5 TOP STORY OF 2009 - When Did A Gun Become A Solution To A Problem?&lt;/a&gt;" /><author><name>the hillbilly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13615009093498758544</uri><email>thejournal@thehillbillyjournal.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="09936110242168804399" /></author></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcFR3w4fip7ImA9WxBQFUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6505607139512575895.post-7115651806105888699</id><published>2010-01-07T04:01:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2010-01-15T02:26:56.236-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-01-15T02:26:56.236-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Senator" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Nancy Pelosi" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chris Dodd" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Harry Reid" /><title>Like Rats Fleeing The Sinking Ship</title><content type="html">
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E310rmR60h4puTWtF-ZifJjs5JA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E310rmR60h4puTWtF-ZifJjs5JA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It was great to hear those golden words come from the mouth of Chris Dodd today. Wednesday, January 5, 2010. He gave a Press conference and gathered all the family up around him to tell the media his news; the golden announcement, “He will not run for re-election when his term ends.”&amp;nbsp; How sad, he’s only been there eight terms: three decades; he took money from Countrywide, and wrote legislature that would give million of dollars to Bank of America in the stimulus; and he also wrote legislation that would approve AIG executives receiving millions of dollars of bonuses, even though they had received stimulus money. When I say, “how sad.” you know I’m jesting; I hope!&lt;br /&gt;
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Dodd said, "In the long sweep of American history there are moments for each elected public official to step aside and let someone else step up. This is my moment to step aside," . He told reporters, "I'm very proud of the job I've done and the results delivered. But none of us is irreplaceable. None of us are indispensable, and those who think otherwise are dangerous."&amp;nbsp; Dodd faced a 40 percent job approval and his chance at re-election was written off by many Democrats. 60 percent of Connecticut voters had lost their faith in him, and probably would not support him in election. It’s bad when there is no candidate and you can see the result of the election; but that’s how it was.&amp;nbsp; Many believe the Democratic Party of Connecticut could read the writing on the wall that Dodd would loose his reelection bid. &lt;br /&gt;
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The president said, "Chris Dodd has devoted his life to public service, while his work in the Senate is not yet finished, his leadership in that institution will be missed."&amp;nbsp; Dodd’s stepping aside represents the departure of one of the most powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill on financial issues-- if not the most powerful. &lt;br /&gt;
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Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota., announced his surprise decision to retire instead of seeking re-election this year. So there is a chance in 2010 for Conservative’s to take back the Senate, along with the House members that decided to step aside. Maybe Harry Reid; Blanch Lincoln; David Pryor; and Nancy Pelosa will be next to be forced out of office due to failing poll numbers. We can hope, can’t we?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian with ties to al-Qaida, who sits in federal custody, charged with trying to destroy the Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit. He is alleged to have smuggled an explosive device on board the aircraft, in his underwear and set if off, but the device sparked only a fire and not the intended explosion.&lt;br /&gt;
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Can you imagine going through life being known as the underwear bomber? What kind of rap is he going to get in prison; what kind of respect will the other al-Qaida prisoners give him? I can’t imagine going through life with the pain the flame he must have done to the area of private parts to his body. He will be known by some catchy name the other al-Qaida prisoners label him with: if he had been successful he could have been a legend. Instead, he’s the man who burned off his family jewels and prick; the underwear bomber.&amp;nbsp; What kind of man packs his crotch with explosions and boards a plane to blow it up and the three hundred people on it? His action leaves one big question for me. . &lt;br /&gt;
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Okay here’s the question! He’s been conned into believing there are 72 virgins waiting for him in heaven for killing the infidels; so the question is: what does he think he’ll do with them without balls or a pecker? If there had been an explosion on the plane he’d have gone one way and his family jewels with penis would have gone another. I don’t much about the Muslin faith, but I never heard of them getting a new body in heaven, like Christians believe; if they do believe so, I apologize for being ignorant of their religion. I openly admit not to be an authority on Muslin. I’m here to tell you explosives packed in his underwear wouldn’t have done his body any good! He would have entered into heaven in a box and who’s going to make sure his body parts are gathered up off the blown up plane complete? So who’s the infidel? &lt;br /&gt;
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I don’t about you but if I had the job of gathering up his body parts I’d put his prick and nuts in a box by itself labeled unknown person; they’d put him in the grave less those parts so that when they put him back together at the resurrection they be looking all over&amp;nbsp; heaven for them. Now who’s the infidel?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EdRwtThgd79uUrsijaUtgazLPMQ/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EdRwtThgd79uUrsijaUtgazLPMQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Democrats, mainly Nancy Pelosi, say voicing opposition against Barak Obama’s healthcare plan is un-American at the town hall meetings. Being against the plan and speaking up has been compared to being a terrorist; the protesters being compared to “Hitler.”&amp;nbsp; There has been no Democrat apology to Nancy Pelosi’s statement or anything else the Democrats have done to ridicule the actions of American people. &lt;br /&gt;
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Hundreds of American people are turning out to the town hall meetings of Congress people, to talk about healthcare reform with the meetings getting rather heated as the people bring up the issues they have heard. Many are concerned they will have to give up their current healthcare; some are concern the government can’t provide the level of healthcare they now receive; some are concerned with rationing of services, or not paying for services; and others are concerned with the one trillion&amp;nbsp; dollar price healthcare will cost their children or grandchildren.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;CNN reports Representative Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, who had a town hall meeting disrupted by angry protesters earlier this month, said he had never experienced such emotion in his 15 years of holding such forums. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said, "This is clearly being orchestrated, and these folks have instructions. They come down from a Texas lobbyist in Washington." He continued by saying,&amp;nbsp; that when "there's a group of people honestly sitting in the middle trying to ask the important questions and get the right answers, and instead someone takes the microphone and screams and shouts to the point where the meeting comes to an end, that isn't dialogue, that isn't the democratic process.”&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said such complaints were "absurd." "I think attacking citizens in our country for expressing their opinions about an issue of this magnitude may indicate some weakness in their position on the merits," McConnell said. "And I also think it's particularly absurd for the Democrats, who have over an $8 million e-mail list over at the DNC (Democratic National Committee) called Organize America, to be criticizing citizens for being organized. Frankly, the truth of the matter is we don't know who's organized and who isn't. The point is the issue, the substance. They need to deal with it. Americans are concerned about it."&lt;br /&gt;
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So, it appears the Democrats choose to call opposition to their healthcare by names and disregard the real voice of the people. They might choose to reject the protest of the people they work for to justify their vote for healthcare; doing what they want based on party lines. They support President Obama’s healthcare and no matter what real Americans do; their going to vote for it, and they want you to support them; not the right way, them supporting you. And, no matter what they say about you voicing your opinion it’s American to voice what you think, even if it is against Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats in the Congress. It’s probably more un-American to call you un-American than your un-American for stating you opposition.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lbbFCnpQ3gn0TeduQupRCdMmEKI/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/lbbFCnpQ3gn0TeduQupRCdMmEKI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;American women don’t get a break anywhere; Senators working on a healthcare bill for proposal ran into a snag when it came to the issue of paying for abortions. A letter of the already sent by 19 Democrat members of the House to the Speaker said, "We cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan," said the letter, the lead signers included Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Bart Stupak of Michigan and Minnesota's Collin Peterson. &lt;br /&gt;
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Senator Charles Grassley (R, IA) said, "I take a view that there's almost anything [that can be compromised] in public affairs except probably the issue of abortion," Senator Grassley is one of the leading Republicans seeking a bipartisan health bill. On Monday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the only congressional committee overseeing the health effort that is actually drafting its bill, debated half-dozen abortion-related amendments. It defeated most on identical 12-11 votes, including one that would have barred people who get government insurance subsidies from buying private insurance plans that include abortion coverage.&lt;br /&gt;
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Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said, "You are taking federal tax dollars and using them to provide abortion services," he said. "The rest of the people in this country should not be paying for [those] services through their tax dollars." But Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said that not letting people use what might be very small subsidies to buy private coverage was going too far. He said, "The next step in this logic will be to require anybody seeking these services to walk to the clinic, lest they use federal highways, supported by federal highway funds," &lt;br /&gt;
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Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee, say President Obama and congressional leaders plan to use the health care effort to dramatically increase the availability of abortion services. "These bills give federal officials the authority to define what benefits must be carried in all health insurance plans, both private and in the government plan that's proposed," he said. "And there is no doubt whatever that abortion, elective abortion, would be among those services mandated. There has been a consensus at the congressional level since the mid-1970s that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for elective abortion, and that's simply the principle that we seek to preserve here," &lt;br /&gt;
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And it's not just government-run plans that bar abortion, he notes. It's government-subsidized plans, too. The program that covers federal workers and their families; as well as members of Congress,“ he said, "is a program that involves hundreds of private insurance plans, but in order to participate in the program, by act of Congress, the plans may not cover abortion, except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape and incest. So elective abortions are not covered under that program because it is federally subsidized."&lt;br /&gt;
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So the battle continues; American women that the Supreme Court has agreed that abortion are not un-Constitutional and Senators and Representatives that fail to accept what the Court says. I’m not a liberal at heart; I don’t agree with abortion as birth control; but I do believe that all Americans have the right to the freedoms the Constitution guarantees.&amp;nbsp; Democratic pollster Mark Mellman said, "Right now, most health care plans cover abortion, cover contraception, cover women's reproductive health, to some extent, what they're talking about on Capitol Hill is taking away coverage that people already have. Americans want health care reform. But they will oppose health care reform if it takes away the coverage they now have for things like abortion and contraception."&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_bn9nlnHfSW78NV2SV6StcfapDY/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_bn9nlnHfSW78NV2SV6StcfapDY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;According to Vice President Joe Biden the Obama administration misread how bad the economy was before coming to office. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, the VP said, "The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures and most of the blue chip indexes out there. We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package, More jobs will be created in coming months," &lt;br /&gt;
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But, Warren Buffet is already calling for another stimulus bill, which has been a matter of discussion and debate between members of the administration. The second stimulus debated is between 200 billion and 500 billion dollars. Advocates for the bill want unemployment assistance and help for the states. Tax cuts are much debated between those involved.&amp;nbsp; Of course, Speaker of the House Pelosi will be for it, pushing for the second stimulus before the first one even cleared the Senate and was signed into law.&lt;br /&gt;
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David Leonhardt of the NYT attempts to explain why the Obama administration was overly optimistic about the economy in its now-infamous “unemployment will not go above 8 percent” forecast:&amp;nbsp; he writes, “It is that the economy has deteriorated in spite of the stimulus. In other words, the patient is not as sick as he would have been without the medicine he received. But he is a lot sicker than doctors realized when they prescribed it. To me, the evidence is fairly compelling.”&lt;br /&gt;
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A second stimulus would be nice for the states that are all having trouble meeting payroll, and how can unemployment not need the extra money, but who will fund a stimulus? Our major investors are getting worried about the U.S. economy. At a recent meeting of Russia, China, India, and Brazil they tried to come to a consensus on reducing dependence on the U.S, dollar.&amp;nbsp; Russian President Medvedev said, "No currency system can be successful if we have financial instruments denominated in just one currency. We must strengthen the international financial system not only by making the dollar strong, but also by creating other reserve currencies. The main reserve currency, the dollar, has failed to serve its purpose."&lt;br /&gt;
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The leaders issued a statement that called for "a more diversified international monetary system and a greater role for their four nations in making major global financial decisions. A reformed financial and economic architecture should be based on a "democratic and transparent decision-making and implementation process at the international financial organizations.” The statement made no explicit criticism of the dollar, and contained no reference to developing new reserve currencies, which reflected China’s concern that anti-dollar statements might cause the dollar to loose value. Since China is well funded with U.S. dollar investments they were careful not to do anything to hurt our monitory system.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GagOSIOwRiOQnb8XeVF87TiEeMs/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GagOSIOwRiOQnb8XeVF87TiEeMs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bernie Madoff is probably the most recognized of all the thieves in the news today. We all will remember sentenced in U.S. District court on Monday and suffer the maximum sentence judge Denny Chin him for the destruction he brought to people all in the name of greed. He was could impose on him.&lt;br /&gt;
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Chin read a letter from Norma Hill who invested everything in Madoff’s ponzi scheme after her husband passed away.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Madoff “put his arm around my shoulder and assured me my money was safe and I should not worry,” she wrote.&amp;nbsp; Chin cited Hill’s letter as one of the most stirring examples of an “extraordinarily evil” fraud; worthy of a staggering sentence for Madoff.&amp;nbsp; Chin continued, “Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff’s crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not merely a bloodless financial crime that takes place just on paper, but it is instead ... one that takes a staggering human toll.”&lt;br /&gt;
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The sentence was extreme for Madoff but if one plans and executes the crime of the century; one should be ready to face the penalty of the century. Madoff’s ponzi scheme hurt many people and caused many to suffer needlessly, all because one man figured out how to live on and use greed to fund his life. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3864K7PkCcxPqFiE1xC4Q5moGQ8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3864K7PkCcxPqFiE1xC4Q5moGQ8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What is wrong with people today? What makes a person need to work out their problems with a gun; killing innocent people? There is no problem large enough that death should be the solution to the problem, no problem that using a little sense won’t lead to an answer to the situation that is divesting life for you. I’ve faced some life shattering problems in my life, so I know what the huge problems of life feel like; I didn’t kill anyone. I’ve lost two wives due to their cheating during my life; faced bills bigger than the amount of money I had; raised my twelve week old daughter when my first wife ran off; had a new house go into foreclosure when my second wife ran off with her boss; had my whole life turned upside down by bankruptcy; and drove an old beat-up car instead of a new, shimmy one: I didn’t kill anyone.&lt;br /&gt;
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You would think by the actions of some people we lived during the time of the old western days. If something goes wrong, grab your six shooter and rush out on the street and square off against the one that wronged you. Except during those days, everybody carried a six shooter and was able to defend themselves. Maybe, we need to go back to that day; protecting ourselves and the weaker ones. If there had been someone at one of those shootings in the past few weeks, there might not be fourteen innocent people dead; or one innocent man of God, just preaching in his pulpit on a Sunday morning; or three policemen; college students; nursing home residents; or the members of a man’s family; not to mention all the school shootings.&lt;br /&gt;
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It’s not even safe to go to church, without the fear a nut will bust in during the service and shoot up the place and the parishioners. And the reason given; he was depressed because he lost his job; his wife, girlfriend, or significant other; his dog ran off; Give me a break, they make pills for depression. If you think you’re going to arm yourself with a gun and go on a spree, get to the Doctor and get some pills. Sane normal people take pills and they don’t shoot people.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/w4pqotSaSUyPzURuPEmXEbQ6dmk/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/w4pqotSaSUyPzURuPEmXEbQ6dmk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now I think we should give everybody a say about the economy; then debate it and discuss the good points of their plan; and if one part is better, let’s keep it and throw away the bad then add the good part to good parts of other debated budget plans. If we did it that way, you might not get everything of your plan, but you might get something. What would be wrong with that way of choosing a budget plan?&lt;br /&gt;
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But, Democrats and Republicans both have this idea that it is all or nothing when it comes to voting on a budget plan.&amp;nbsp; The Democrats think they will steamroll over the Republicans; and I’ve heard television news commentators say as much. If they can see that, surely the Republicans can see it too. The Republican’s plan is to keep saying, “President Obama's fiscal policy "spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much." The words they speak are true, but to keep saying that doesn’t fix the problem.&amp;nbsp; We need some meat instead of empty slogans. &lt;br /&gt;
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Would the Republicans have even promised the American people a plan if President Obama hadn’t told them to put up or shut up? Promised, that is all they did. During the week of March 22 they promised their response to President Obama; and yes they released that nineteen page announcement, but there were no real help there or a bill ready plan. They promised the nineteen page document was an introduction to the budget plan they would release the following Wednesday. According to a report by Citizen’s For Tax Justice who analyzed the nineteen page outline the “Poor pay more and the rich pay less and the plan cost $300 billion annually more than the President's plan.”&lt;br /&gt;
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So Obama’s plan spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much; the Republican’s plan puts the cost on the poor and let’s the rich off the hook; who’s watching out for America? All I really know is we cannot keep spending like there is no tomorrow. Unlike the statement, “Tomorrow Never Comes” it does and somebody has to pay!&lt;br /&gt;
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First, the statement “there would be another economy crisis” indicates the one we are in now is over. When you say another, it sounds like we have moved on. Did I miss something? I was not aware we were in the clear economically with the one that the housing crisis brought. I watched the stock market today, and I not sure they know it either. The market dumped another 251 points, finishing at 7114 points. Second, the statement “because America has a serious debt problem”&amp;nbsp; indicates that when President Obama let Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid write the Stimulus Bill, he did not know that the nearly $1 trillion of debt was as big a deal as it was. Should not Pelosi and Reid not have known? Now that we are on the hook for that money, it seems like now we are worrying about it. Why were we not worrying about it before it was signed into law?&lt;br /&gt;
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When Obama came into office he inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit from former President George W. Bush, and in less than a month added nearly $1 trillion more hoping to shock the economy out of recession. Now he says, "We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end," he said. "Today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office." It seems like he is wandering by trial and error giving the nation two different messages; like he is a little unsure what we need.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What a bunch of crooks Americans have in Washington D. C. To get the health care bill passed the Democratic hardheaded had to buy votes from the Senators; some were from the Democratic Party’s own that knew the plan was bad for America and wouldn’t vote for it otherwise! It appears that the Democratic agenda is to ram some kind of health care down the people’s throat, whether they like it or not. All the polls have the approvable rate for the soon to be law at better than fifty-five percent against; but the Democratic Party isn’t listening or don’t care. Any way you look at the Democratic Party you have to call them sleazy and crooked.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The people you sent to Washington works for you and if you’re in the fifty-five percent against bunch you’re not getting representation. The crooks had town hall meetings, sent questionnaire forms in the mail, and received numerous calls and emails of the people against this bill; all the time they knew in their minds what they were going to do when it came to a vote. As broke as our country is think of the needless waste of paper; printing; mailing fees; and labor to get mailings out. This doesn’t include the cost of cold calling millions of Americans on the phone. They wasted your money and already knew their mind was made up. If that isn’t sleazy I guess I don’t know crookedness.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Republicans aren’t any different except the will of the people is on their side, this time. I watch them pouring their hearts out daily; begging the Democrats to listen to the madness of rushing this bill through Congress. And, I see their appeal falling on deaf ears or hard hearts. They complain about the buying of the vote from Louisiana and Nebraska and try to press the Democratic Senate to see the unacceptable action of this. But, the Democrats don’t care they won. If the sleazy dogs worked in the business world; at the factory you may work at, or the coffee shop, or any where else you might work; they’d be fired so fast their heads would be spinning.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I’m not against some form of health care; I do lean more to reform of the insurance companies, because I don’t want the government in the insurance business or the health care business. We need reform that brings lower rates, longer coverage between jobs, no preexisting conditions; and a policy anyone could get, with one of the already formed agencies administrating it. All would pay doctors visits; specialist doctors; surgery; test; emergencies; and prescriptions.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Congress knows what issues are important. They deal with complex subjects and take up issues that are important to the democracy of America every day. They are supposed to be the caretakers of our freedoms as American citizens. The work of a Senator is valuable; they cause wars, raise taxes and debate things that affect life in America. A  Representative in the House and the Senate make up the backbone of our nation. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, with the important work of Congress why do they think determining how the NCAA regulates the bowl games is important? Haven’t they got enough important business like the war in Iraq and Afghanistan; healthcare; global warming; world peace; and keeping the American people working, eating, and paying their bills to worry about what to do with college football. With the Taliban threatening Pakistan; North Korea playing around with nuclear bombs; American business and its working class citizens facing hard times I would think they could find something to debate more important.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I don’t like the way college football decides what team is number one and what team goes to what bowl game but that’s not Congresses business; that’s why the NCAA’s in business. In the overall scheme of things Congress is wasting time debating this issue while there is more important stuff. If they want to run college sports we can find some interested people to run the country and make decisions about the life and death matters. 2010 is coming please vote against incumbent Congress people that are making a joke out of an important office. Do you think Thomas Jefferson; George Washington; or any of the Founding Fathers of our country would have bothered with college football while Americans were in the shape they are from the economy or were dying in foreign countries?  &lt;br /&gt;
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Happy Holidays, can you believe there is such a big ordeal made when you aren’t politically correct and say “Merry Christmas.” It wasn’t that long ago that the new correct salutation for Christmas started to be used; until then people whether they were church people or not would just said, “Merry Christmas” and go on with their business. No one cared that there were Nativity Scenes where people who wanted to see them could come to see them and others would stay at home. And, if the public community is made up of more people that want a Nativity Scene why should one or two people dictate to the community their rights about things?&lt;br /&gt;
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When do I get my rights in this wash pot of international people that makes up America? Why isn’t the ACLU pushing for Christian rights? They just keep pushing liberal rights down my throat and I’m expected to like it. If I want to say Merry Christmas I live in a country that I have that right. If they don’t want religious things decorating the land, let’s put it to a vote; yea, or nay whether we will have nativity scenes, religious phrases on public buildings, The Ten Commandments in our court rooms and such. I’ll abide by the outcome, but they won’t. They’ll cry foul and get lawyers involved; like a bunch of babies. &lt;br /&gt;
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Come on, do you think a hard core atheist is going to be changed by anything that is displayed? If the atheist could be swayed that easily that would be one thing but I know from experience they are grounded in their belief. Their faith in what they believe is strong enough to overcome a few Christmas decorations; historical buildings with bible sayings, and the common “Merry Christmas” now and then along the way. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The details reported the day after Thanksgiving made the holiday much more enjoyable because now there was something to be extra thankful for. Most people had to look for something to be thankful for or they were busy waiting to be thankful that the relatives would go home today. But now I and billions of people could be thankful that we weren’t the ones that had to face our wives swinging a nine iron at our head. Not to mention hitting my neighbors mailbox and wrecking my Cadillac Escalade at three o’clock in thee morning. If I could only afford an Escalade I’d be a happy person. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;According to a poll at Rassmussens’s Reports the health care is at it lowest approval rate since the Democrats have been trying to pass health care. &amp;nbsp;It seems that 56% of Americans are opposed to the plan with only 38% in favor of it. This is down from 50% for and 45% against when the first begin to talk about health care.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Could this mean that America really doesn’t want health care? No, this means that the average person just want the government to work with the health insurance industry to do healthcare reform; to make health insurance affordable. &amp;nbsp;When Obama start to talk about the government getting in the health care business, people thought the government was going to pressure the &amp;nbsp;health insurance companies to make insurance available by getting the price lowered so low income people could afford it. Boy was we wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No one knew that “Change you can believe in” was going to turn change of the U. S. government to go from democracy to a socialist like country where the government is involved in private businesses like manufacturing to health care. &amp;nbsp;A Democratic run Senate and House of Representative and a Democratic President is a mistake for the country. When one is controlled by a member of the Democratic Party, the other needs to be Republican; that gives a check that our country needs. Otherwise we, the American people get stuff pushed down our throats that half of the Americans are against and if the truth was told part of the 38% for it is really against it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No one likes being fed laws and rules they are against.&lt;br /&gt;
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