[Girlene]

Well, at least he's hearing directly from his constituents that they don't want the spending bill. I liked this comment after the article:

This quote pretty much sums it all up. "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

[rightthinkingwoman]

It did my heart good in the comments that at least some people are beginning to get the idea that there are actual PEOPLE voting these politicians into office. Said it before, pols are who they are. The voters need to be called to task for continuing to vote them in.

[businessprofessor]

I have heard this argument stated other ways but this statement is profound. We need someone with the stature of Thomas Payne to emblazen these words on the national mindset.

The rats have not even got started on their Marxist policies. I do not use Marxist lightly. A central tenet of Marxism is a redivision of society into the government favored and remainder. In the Soviet Union and other Marxist nations, the only way to relative prosperity was the party. In the rat version of Marxism, party membership is not actually required. However, you must be in a favored group that is closely aligned (specifically with campaign cash and ideology) to prosper. Labor unions, environmentalists, trial lawyers, and political activists are set for a harvest of rewards. The rest will be forced to live without especially as the new rat Marxism takes hold.