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When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus. Our government should not be immune from similar risks. Therefore: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100...

I use to think part of the economy's problems was the very long war going on. I realized later that the problems I was seeing started mainly 2006 the year Congress became controlled by the usual tax and spend Democrats. It's a lie that Obama and the democrats are now blaming the economic woes on Bush and the Republicans. It seems to me if something bad happened blame it on Bush. Perhaps we should begin to realize that the facts are that the Democrat politicians are to blame and that is the change we got beg 2006--a change for the...