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Georgia can survive 23 days without federal checks
Examiner.com ^ | December 15, 2010 | Michael A. DeVine

Posted on 12/15/2010 5:29:44 AM PST by Pan_Yan

There is absolutely no reason to capitulate to the illegitimate Democrat majority and their golden parachute continuing resolution

The first few days would be tough as the networks show pictures of "suffering" national park workers that may not be paid for 23 more days. But notice that number, 23. Only 23 days.

Many Americans who work get paid once per month. Twenty-three days is only nine days more than 14 and only 16 days more than seven. Nearly 18% of Americans are underemployed and over 9% haven't been paid in over 6 months.

But is it really 23 days that government workers would have to survive if no continuing resolution were passed by the Lame Duck Dems? Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) vowed to keep the Senate in session until the New Year, so maybe it is only five days that bureaucrats would have to sacrifice for Americans to learn that we need not yield to blackmail.

Georgia's Republican U.S. Senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson must not cave to another trillion dollar Democratic Party extortion bill just so they can get home for Christmas.

The GOP could score a huge political victory and help change the culture of government spending if they were to refuse to allow the Losers to take a final slap at America with a porked up final budget supplement to cover the first days and months of 2011.

Yes, the media attacks on how we hate the poor would be 24/7.

But guess what, the 25 or 6 to 4 days would pass, and Chicago would still be playing on the radio in Illinois, and America would learn how much they don't need for government to always have their lips on our money bottle.

Tell Nancy, Harry and Obama to go to Hawaii and leave the Lower 48 and a partridge in a pear tree alone for 23 days of Christmas. Who needs them? Not We the People. I have been back and forth in my support of the Obama-McConnell tax bill alternating between fear of the consequences of a tax hike, when the pornographic Democrat spending bill is revealed and then it dawned on me. Its only 23 days until the new House convenes.

23 days.

Pass nothing. No bill of any kind, and we just might wake up to a new America with less adults as dependent children of Uncle Sam. An America prepared to persevere thru this recession ready to cut government out of our lives and get back to work.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: chambliss; georgia; isakson
What the author doesn't realize is that Senators Isakson (Stuffed Shirt) and Chambliss (Stuffed Shirt) have both already slipped their pet projects into the omnibus bill, meaning they are bought and paid for. It's sad that Georgia, which does not have one single democrat in statewide office, can't do better than these two clowns. Unfortunately Chambliss is entrenched until 2014 and Isakson just skated to another term. More proof that ACU ratings have limited value.
1 posted on 12/15/2010 5:29:48 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

About the only time that Isakson appears to be a true conservative is the 90 or so days leading up to the election when he says all the right stuff. BIG gap between what is said and what is done.


2 posted on 12/15/2010 6:13:15 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Pan_Yan

US Dept of Labor hasn’t paid me for more than 30 days. They are ‘undecided’.


3 posted on 12/15/2010 6:14:35 AM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: from occupied ga
Although no fewer than four U.S. House members, a former congressman, and a statewide official are being mentioned for the Republican nomination to succeed retiring Georgia Democratic Sen. Zell Miller, only one has taken the plunge and he is the least conservative of the pack. Rep. Johnny Isakson (American Conservative Union rating: 75%), whose positions on issues such as abortion and campaign finance reform are the opposite of those of most conservatives in and out of the Peach State, has declared for the Senate nomination.

Human Events January 27, 2003

4 posted on 12/15/2010 6:17:47 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: from occupied ga

Too bad Georgians didn’t put Herman Cain in instead of Isakson when they had the chance.


5 posted on 12/15/2010 6:48:40 AM PST by over3Owithabrain
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Too bad Georgians didn’t put Herman Cain in instead of Isakson when they had the chance.

Yes it is. While Herman isn't 100% on the conservative scale, he's considerably better than Isakson.

6 posted on 12/15/2010 6:55:53 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Pan_Yan

You are correct. Saxby is a big porker.


7 posted on 12/15/2010 7:44:14 AM PST by freedom1st
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To: freedom1st

Saxby has $41,713,000 in 41 projects in this bill. Here are some of the programs he wants us to pay for:
-Construction of a Civil Rights Museum and Visitor Center $500,000
-Minority Energy Science Research and Education Initiative $400,000
-Peanut Research, $1,000,000
-Water Use Reduction, $1,200,000
-Airport Runway Extension at Middle Georgia Regional Airport $1,400,000
-University of Georgia, Athens, GA, for obesity intervention and prevention $100,000
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Spelman College, Women in Science and Engineering Program $100,000


8 posted on 12/15/2010 9:33:32 AM PST by Dacula (Proud husband of a Breast Cancer survivor.)
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To: Pan_Yan

23 whole days? And they do get paid, eventually?

I bill net 30 and my main supplier is paid by me on receipt.
I offer 50% off shipping for timely payment, just to keep the cash flow running positive.

My husband has a cash business and works about 2-3 days a month to pay his overhead, half of which which is due on the first day of the month before he sees anyone. His secondary business is pay on receipt with suppliers paid first by about 2 weeks.

These people can do what the self-employed do: put money aside each week or month simply to meet costs. Learn the difference between net and gross.

On the one hand, these state employees are dependable customers to other businesses. On the other hand, they are paid out of taxes taken from those very same businesses. I wish everyone in the country would run a small business for one year, so they could gain some perspective on what they are *owed*.


9 posted on 12/15/2010 10:18:20 AM PST by reformedliberal
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