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GOP's diversionary tactics
Look over here, they say, the federal government is broke. We must cut social services to the poor and the elderly. No, look over there, they say. We must cut funding to Planned Parenthood, they say, even though it does not use federal money for abortions.
They are so good at their diversions, their smoke and mirrors, are they not? Meanwhile the Democrats and Republicans have quietly agreed to increase spending for the Pentagon a whopping $516 billion -- a $10 billion increase from last year.
Your taxes and loans from China pay $39 billion a year in interest on loans for excessive defense expenses incurred since December, 1941. Your grandchildren and their grandchildren will pay the Chinese and the U.S. bankers unless we reverse the growth of the Defense Department budget, which has tripled since 1997.
Why? The bankers, defense contractors, and lobbyists pay for the politicians' campaigns. The politicians pay them back.
Look over there. Rep. Paul Ryan wants to "fix" Medicare by having us buy private insurance policies from for-profit insurance corporations based on Wall Street. Yet Medicare has $2.7 trillion in reserves, is good for 25 years, and does not need to be fixed.
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Devin Nunes don't repensent us
They don’t represent us in Golden State
Our valley is perennially under-employed, even worst during the recession. Cities and countries are laying off hundreds of workers. It’s reported that high-speed rail could provide 120,000-plus jobs locally. Fresno is emerging as the logical location for the maintence station, with is permanent jobs. The federal government has even appropriated billions of dollars for this project.
Three Valley Congressmen, Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, and Jeff Denham, have introduced a bill-H.R.761-to kill this high-speed rail project by reassigning the money, already appropriated, to highway 99 improvements.
This will not produce anywhere near the jobs that high-speed rail would. Their real purpose is to prevent the president from benefitting politically. So, instead of being the constitutionally elected representatives of the people in their districts, they have decided to become impediments to the progress in their districts.
It is apparent to me that this is the result of these congressmen selling their souls and their votes to Washington lobbyists, who represent a handful of billionaires who but votes. They are not supporting the people of their districts. Should the people of their districts continue to support them.
Our valley is perennially under-employed, even worst during the recession. Cities and countries are laying off hundreds of workers. It’s reported that high-speed rail could provide 120,000-plus jobs locally. Fresno is emerging as the logical location for the maintence station, with is permanent jobs. The federal government has even appropriated billions of dollars for this project.
Three Valley Congressmen, Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, and Jeff Denham, have introduced a bill-H.R.761-to kill this high-speed rail project by reassigning the money, already appropriated, to highway 99 improvements.
This will not produce anywhere near the jobs that high-speed rail would. Their real purpose is to prevent the president from benefitting politically. So, instead of being the constitutionally elected representatives of the people in their districts, they have decided to become impediments to the progress in their districts.
It is apparent to me that this is the result of these congressmen selling their souls and their votes to Washington lobbyists, who represent a handful of billionaires who but votes. They are not supporting the people of their districts. Should the people of their districts continue to support them.
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