Posted on 09/27/2011 2:06:34 PM PDT by rawhide
As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending Congressional elections for the next couple of years.
“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News and Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”
Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. “You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things,” Perdue said.
North Carolina Republicans immediately scoffed at Perdue’s proposal, pointing out to her that elections hold politicians accountable for their actions. “Now is a time when politicians need to be held accountable more than ever,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood said in an email to The Daily Caller. “To suspend an election would be removing the surest mechanism that citizens have to hold politicians accountable: The right to vote.”
What took them so long?
How about we just shoot the bastards and replace them with people who actually respect the Constitution?
I wonder who will be persecuted, traitors to the Constitution or people like me who call for traitors to the Constitution be shot?
Someone needs to make a list of all these "jokes"... you know the totalitarian ones...
Did this Rotary club then proceed to toss her out on her
a**?
If not we have a big problem.
Mike
I prefer the alternate equation someone posted: “Money Received X Tax Rate = Taxes Payable.” That way, whensoever they raised the rate everyone would notice. Which is why it’ll never happen.
If they had there way, Tax Returns would be as follows:
1. How much did you make in 2011 $_____________
(Enter amount from Line 1) Total Amount of Tax Payable $______________
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