Not happy with politicians
To the editor:
What is a promise? I thought it was someone giving their word concerning some element or object, and then standing behind that statement. Not so with Obama, it is just politics as usual, or so it seems?
I have learned over the years that politicians make many statements that they should print of Charmin, so we can get some good from them. There is another side that they refuse to accept, who is their god, and what does he expect from them?
What of the Constitution, does it no longer count? That must be their belief, they ignore it completely.
This thing called earmarks, is just a form of buying votes from a given area, by finding something people in that area want for nothing. Now that action is not acceptable under the Constitution, and has never been. I thought each administration has an attorney general. Their job is upholding the Constitution. Why do these people ignore any and all forms of fraud of this type, but go after some silly school kid with a vengeance.
Somewhere something is wrong, the original Constitution was clear on the issue. What took place?
Somewhere most politicians have lost track of what the job they are supposed to be doing is. Maybe the French knew something we do not know - the guillotine!
Clinton and Obama both promised the most honest, open government this nation has ever had, how was that?
I heard people say that the Democrats are for the poor, but they constantly try to find ways to tax us.
Maybe I am prejudiced, well just a little, but then?
I never had much school housing, so maybe I just do not understand it all. How does one get that liberal viewpoint firmly embedded in your mind, it is just satanic.
Then there is the gasahol issue, this is ridiculous.
The cost of production exceeds the value, and I find it to be impractical for my car. Without the tax break, it would fall down the hill all the way. If there was any brains in that business, they would find a solution for their problem, if there is one.
I hear about how smart these politicians are, but as a boy I picked up rocks that were smarter. Well enough for today, someday if I love long enough, maybe I will understand the world. I doubt that.
Glenn L. Smith
Algona
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jaybares
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04-01-09 4:58 AM
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If most would read the Constituion and the Bill of Rights, that would be a first step. If most would study and uderstand the Constituion and Bill of Rights, that would be a good second step. Buying into and living by the provisions would be awesome third step. What a concept.
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justwords
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03-31-09 5:40 PM
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The funny thing is that Glenn is a raging liberal.
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Anderson
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03-30-09 11:45 AM
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You pulled a few chains there, Glenn. Leftist Democrats never want to trace anything gone wrong further back than Bush. Those earmarks began with FDR's WPA/PWA when, in 1936, only projects in swing districts were approved. We have a process for amending the Constitution, but it is not necessary if one views it as a living document, i.e. it means what I think it should mean, not what a very much wiser - and experienced - bunch of guys wrote two centuries ago. Like Obama saying the Constitution should include "positive" rights as to what the govt "owes" you rather than just "negative" rights that keep govt from taking God given rights from you or doing things to you without due process. Read Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny," and have a good cry for YOUR beloved country.
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stillcrazyme
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03-30-09 8:54 AM
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Well Glenn I'm with you. I'm not educated eather. I was one of the stupid people who went in the service for my country. so some could become educated and come out of school and be my boss. make more money and just be better than me.I saw the lies with the corn fuel. Then they showed the true colors when gas went up. no mater what happens some people are going to blame Bush. It was the clintons that started this in "99" and were not going to see the end. I think they should watch out who is going to bail out the US (we are to big to fail) This country is going to fold in on its self. everyone the SHEEP are going to watch it I'm not
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HUEVOSRANCHEROS
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03-30-09 3:58 AM
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¡I must also point out that a few weeks back when Piyush Jindal of Louisiana, made his poorly researched rebuttal to Obama's stimulus package, he used an "earmark" for volcano monitoring as an example of wasteful spending. Over the course of this past week, Mt. Redoubt in Alaska has been erupting, sending ash as high as 60,000 feet into the atmosphere and raining down on a famous little village named Wasilla. I'm guessing the folks in Alaska think volcano monitoring is about as important to them as hurricane forecasting may be to people in Louisiana and vice versa. Maybe the young bimbos the GOP is trotting out these days could get on the same page as each other, then attempt to be on the same page as the general public at some point down the road, which would do wonders for their popularity in this here democracy of ours. It's a ways off I understand but, if Palin & Jindal are the future of the Republican Party, they better start getting educated-NOW!
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HUEVOSRANCHEROS
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03-30-09 3:46 AM
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¡Well Glenn, you make a point that most of us already know and that is that there is an enormous double standard for the common people of the land as opposed to the people who make the laws and also for the ones who own most of our financial world. I am disappointed though, that you could only find the Democratic Presidents in recent times as examples of your observations when, in fact, the last 8 years of the Bush Administration were the worst case of lying to the public of any President-perhaps ever! Just because Bush & Cheney maybe didn't make promises of being open or honest certainly does not excuse their atrocities. How also do you bring having a god into this? A lot of people do not identify with a god just the same as some people are not into athletics-big deal.
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