My political safe place....hear me rant....: 89-8 bipartisan vote in Senate...Congress?

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

89-8 bipartisan vote in Senate...Congress?

It is up to Congress...we shall see what they do. I can't imagine them not passing this through...but then again, we are talking about people like Boehner! So anything is possible. These men and women on the right are looking out for one thing...the wealthy Americans. They could care less about middle class families. They are dysfunctional to say the least...corrupt is a better term to me...but we will stick with dysfunctional bc they are NOT functioning. This term was used by a (Dem) majority leader Senator Harry Reid and I liked it in describing the current congress men and women. Such a shame and so embarrassing from an international stand point. People cannot believe our representatives do not know how to compromise. Both sides are embarrassing...but as JFK said...."We cannot negotiate with people who say, 'What's mine is yours and what's yours is negotiable.'" The Democrats compromised...let's see if the Republicans can.

2 comments:

BrianJanuary 4, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Maybe this is why some people are hesitiant to just keep the blank check flowing on the premise that "the rich pay more" so we can cut the deficit.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/04/truth-about-obama-tax-fake-out/

Yes, I realize it is Foxnews - but I doubt you will be debating most of the statistical facts of the article - I think the 16% figure is stretched a bit. But the rest are just facts - more deficits, more deficits, more deficits. Just keep it coming.

Its a sad day in America when people look at some in Congress who say, "wait a minute - what happened to the spending cuts we have been talking about all along that were suppose to come with the tax increases. The GOP voted for a tax increase but I am surprised it had the votes to pass with all of the spending cuts getting sucked out of this deal.

Tax and spend - someday that won't work anymore.
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Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.