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Mr. Bunning R-Kentucky I hope you never need help from us

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GOP Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky has since his announcement of not running for re-election suddenly gotten a sense of consciousness in spending holding up extending unemployment and cobra health benefits for millions of Americans in need at this trying time.

Maybe it is high time America bites back despite his legitimate concerns over where the money is coming from to pay for it. Maybe we should take it out of his retirement package as a Senator.

I can imagine that he would be the first person to scream aloud if he was not getting his money that would be the difference between homelessness and having health issues that go untreated.

When this older man is in dire need of help after he has, retired I can only hope those around his home where ever he may retire treat him with the same disdain.

This is more about his sudden rise to bargaining power that clearly he must be holding back for a possible Presidential run why else would he all of a sudden get a conscious regarding excessive spending. How much pork was spent during his tenure that never bothered him before now?

Good luck Mr. Bunning I hope that your money from the speech circuit is large and prosperous as you go into retirement maybe someday you will not know the issue of nearly losing your home.

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TheLegendTomWing
TheLegendTomWing
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Philadelphia, PA
23 months ago: ... can i get an AMEN!
23 months ago: I know I am preaching to the choir but Amen.
23 months ago: Ahem.....

It's about time one of these politicians started growing a back bone.

I wish some of the other ones would stand up and hold these socialists to account. You cannot spend money you do not have.

Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
23 months ago: You didn't have a problem doing so for the illegitimate wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
23 months ago: When was that? Was PAYGO statute law? When was that? Did congress unlawfully spend our money?
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
23 months ago: The war budget was NEVER accounted for until this year when Obama said it needed to show up on the national budget.

23 months ago: We don't have the money to pay for his pension either but they aren't going to take that away from him are they. Of course not he's going to get his so why not help those less fortunate we are already spending billions on things we can't afford..."Mars" "Summits with gourmet dinners"
23 months ago: I agree we take his and Pelosi's, Reid's retirement, etc. I agree completely.

I disagree with you if you say we cannot afford to send human beings to Mars. We cannot afford not to.

It is not for the government to take care of everybody in the country. We should do it ourselves.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
23 months ago: So do you literally use no public services? Do you take your own trash to the dump? Do you not expect to receive social security benefits when you are old? Please...government has an obligation to the people.
23 months ago: Where in this bill was any Social Security or local garbage removal subject?

It was an EXTENSION of a federal employee lunch plan bill. Never bugeted.
Never taxed. Never paid for, unless you count robbing Social Security some more to pay for it.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
23 months ago: Red said that the government should not take care of the people and that they should do it themselves...that is what my question is in regards to.
amishking
amishking
 Moderator
Auburn, NY
23 months ago: Amen!
23 months ago:
despite his legitimate concerns over where the money is coming from to pay for it

Did read that statement correctly? What exactly has Senator Bunning done other than hold Congress to a law which the president signed in about 2 weeks ago? Is it not a law? Did the Congress not vote on it and send it to the President to sign? Do we pass on other laws for convenience sake?
23 months ago: I am not sure which law you're referring to but according to all media reports and even his own statements he is in fact holding back the approval for the extension.
I am sure I read and heard that part correctly.
23 months ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO

On February 12, 2010, Obama signed House Joint Resolution 45, which contained a provision reinstating statutory PAYGO rules
23 months ago: I am never very good with the governmental double-speak honestly.

I think I get the gist of it though...
23 months ago: Basically the law states.

If you can't cut money from something else or raise revenues to pay for it you can't pass it. Plain and simple. No money no PAY. PAYGO.
23 months ago: Ok thanks.

As for finding a source of financing the extension I think Congress is capable of footing part of their own medical, taking a temporary pay cut as well as reducing the pension of former members of our Legislative/Executive Branches as many of these individuals are making millions on the lecture circuit.
23 months ago: That would be an entirely different subject.

Isn't Charlie Rangel in the news again?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Let's start by cleaning up the corruption.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/83979-e...

On Thursday, the House ethics committee Thursday admonished Rangel for the trips, finding that he improperly received reimbursement for the trips because his staff knew about corporate sponsorship of the travel.

Besides Rangel, Democratic Reps. Carolyn Kilpatrick (Mich.), Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), Donald Payne (N.J.), Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and Virgin Islands Del. Donna Christensen attended the event.
23 months ago: J.

We're singing off the same song sheet.


Cypress:

Right on, right on.
23 months ago: Dang it.

He capitulated this evening, and the whore spending is back on full steam ahead.

We're doomed.
23 months ago: PH, ''the government should not take care of the people''

Where does that begin and where does that end?
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
23 months ago: I believe that government should provide basic necesseties to its people. This includes health care, protection form harm (fire and police). Aid to those who are poor through various social programs such as food stamps, rent assistance etc. Aid to the elderly (this one we are already good at via Social Security and Medicare). It begins with these basic needs and ends wherever it needs to. It doesn't have a hard limit. If a program will help people then it should be implemented.

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