Posted on 11/14/2004 2:21:27 AM PST by Remember_Salamis
Bump for later reading.
I dunno, that seemed applicable to John Kerry during the last election! It's too bad the press didn't think so.
Sigh...
Ya know, I have SO little patience with anything in the Cong-Rec that I think its largely a waste of time.
Anything inserted in the record but never spoken on the
floor is just drivel. Nobody reads it, nobody cares, and
its all prepared by staff and never seen by the member who
supposidly submitted it.
Drivel.
In the old days, mid-1800's... newspapers would run transcripts of what happened in Congress. Not a lot of bias there, and not a lot of added junk either. I wish the papers would do that again.
Is CSPAN continually transcripted somewhere? It might be worth what it costs if it were. Then we could Google for bits.
Can you imagine how incredibly boring 90% of that is?
Uh huh.
A few years ago, on a trip to DC, I sat in the House Gallery for a few hours.
Boooooorrrrriiinnngggg.
What needs to be done is have a dollar figure connected with the Congressman who voted for a particular bill sent to voters. That way we can see how many millions they spend.
Yes. Imagine us finding tidbits of treason strewn throughout, though. From Democrats, of course. And a few RINOs. And sundry mistakes and wrongheadedness among them all. It would be a field day for us watchdog citizens.
I would think that any good newspaper would have people paying attention and doing research to tell us everyday what Congress and the executive agencies were doing and how much it was costing. daily!!! thats not too much to ask is it??
The Federal Register is too hard to read on a daily basis online.
I'm talking about being able to search it.
I've always thought it would be a great idea to send each taxpayer a list of what their tax dollars were spent on every year. You'd simply take the money they paid and divide it over how the federal government spends it. This would be so easy to do as well. Im agine if a person who paid $10,000 in taxes got this in the mail:
Amount spent on Defense - $1,800
Amount spent on SS - $2,000
Amount Spent on MEdicare - $1,200
Etc.
Maybe President Bill Owens, a fiscal conservative's conservative, will enact after he's elected in 2008.
About as tedious as newspapers in the 1800's printing transcripts of what happened in Congress? That kind of boring?
To the editor: I would like to thank Heather Mac Donald for "The Immigrant Gang Plague" [Summer 2004]. As a Mexican-American born in South Side Chicago's Brighton Park, I see how the gang problem is destroying our cities and our nation.
My family was among the first Hispanic families to move to (predominantly Lithuanian and Polish) Brighton Park in the 60s, and we were not treated like foreigners. I can remember how quiet and pristine the neighborhood used to be. People would sit on their front porches while kids rode Big Wheels up and down the block.
This neighborhood is now a war zone. I can hear sporadic gunfire as I sit in my living room. Broken glass and used condoms litter the sidewalks. It is impossible to park on my street now, since there are five families in each house, all with cars lacking plates, city stickers, and insurance. This is tolerated because King Richard Daley always gets the Hispanic vote.
The Mexican government held a conference last month about helping illegals into America to become U.S. citizens so that they can vote several states out of the Union. I know this sounds crazy, but it's true and was even covered on Univision and Telemundo.
Thanks for an outstanding article.
Mark Gutierrez Chicago, IL
Agree. Most of the time, anything inserted into the record is usually newspaper articles from such places as the WaPo or the NY Slimes.
What I get from my RINO Rep is how much she can "get back" from the Feds. A few million here for a local cause, a cool $500,000 there for a small project, etc. Hey, don't SPEND the money! What backward thinking that it is the role of the Congrescritter to grab all they can from the Feds. It makes the blind constituent think they are doing something guess.
LOL
The British library is going to put hundreds of thousands of old newspapers online, SEARCHABLE!!!
I can't wait to go through them. =o)
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