Fight The Sheep » senate http://www.fightthesheep.com Fighting the mindless voters with action! Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:05:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 You call it honest budgeting? I call it a pathetic scam. Shame on you Senate http://www.fightthesheep.com/?p=142 http://www.fightthesheep.com/?p=142#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:50:55 +0000 Voter_X http://www.fightthesheep.com/?p=142 Yesterday the Senate tried to pass S.1776- Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009, also known as the “Doctor Fix”. As I understand it, this was a $247 billion medicare doctor reimbursement program which should have been part of the Obamacare package. Problem is the “Doctor Fix” would have pushed Obamacare well over the arbitrary $900 billion line in the sand.

So what did the Senate do? They pulled the “Doctor Fix” out of the health care package, made it it’s own bill and tried to add the $247 billion to the deficit thus keeping the Obamacare number down.

HOW LAZY AND DECIETFUL CAN YOU BE?!? WHAT PART OF “RECORD DEFICIT” DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?!?

 Didn’t Madoff go to jail for playing with numbers like this? Maybe we should go to Washington and make a Citizen’s Arrest.

Senator Debbie Stabenow called this “honest budgeting”. Wait what? Honest budgeting? This is more like paying off credit cards with credit cards. Problem is the Senate is trying to buy things we don’t need with credit cards that are waaaaaaaaaay over the limit. And on a side thought here, what the heck does Stabenow consider DIS-honest budgeting?

Here is a rollcall link to how the vote went down. If your Senator voted Aye for this bill, then ask yourself if they are representing you or just trying to be part of “history”.  As always, I encourage everyone to call their Senators and give them their own Aye or Nay just to let them know we are watching.

http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/6236

]]> http://www.fightthesheep.com/?feed=rss2&p=142 1 Job Quality #1! http://www.fightthesheep.com/?p=119 http://www.fightthesheep.com/?p=119#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:45:05 +0000 Voter_X http://www.fightthesheep.com/?p=119 So as I sit here at my job working to provide a middle-class living for my wife and I, I find myself doing check after check to ensure I am doing a quality job as expected by my employer. And then I start to wonder what kind of expectations other types of businesses put on their employees. Here is what came to mind:

-Fast food employees are expected to know that the burger goes inside the bun

-Accountants are expected to know how to add

-School bus drivers must know where to pick up the kids

-Prostitutes must know how much to give their pimps

-Surgeons need to know the body parts so they dont remove a lung instead of a finger

And so on and so on until I came to our Congress people……. Especially the ones in this Senate Finance Committee we keep hearing about. Now reading the title ( say it again to yourself a few times ), one would think that these people would be good at, oh I dont know, finances? But as these people get ready to vote on their 829 billion ( $829,000,000,000) dollar bill, they admit that they dont know how this thing will effect everyone.

 Wait? What?

 You dont know what it will do to premiums for those who already have insurance? You cant show exactly where the money will come from? You dont know how it will hit the self-employed, i.e. small business owners? And so on and so on…

Now apply this lack of knowledge to the scenarios above or to your job. How would you justify your incompetence to your employer? How would you even keep your job?

 My friends, we are being given a sub-standard Congressional performance and they do not seem to care. They seem to think that the Beltway Gang only answers to the Beltway Gang and that voters are just an election year obligation. It doesn’t matter if you support the health care reform or not, you should still expect your elected officials to do their jobs, read the bills and know the impact of their actions.

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