Ever hear the expression “save for a rainy day”? Well, guess what? It’s raining and flooding. And guess what? There are no savings to fall back on. I guess the U.S. Congress never heard that saying. They have been spending and overspending to the point of borrowing to spend more, leaving this country in unimaginable […]
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A charge to my fellow members of Congress
By John McCain Special to The Washington Post Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American “blood and soil” ideology. There is nothing in their hate-driven racism that can match the strength of a nation conceived in liberty and comprising 323 million souls of different origins and […]
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Cut legislators’ compensation
Every person currently in the U.S. Congress should voluntarily reduce their salaries by $50,000 per year, along with any other elected officials who wasted the nation’s money during the past 10 years. They could get their full salary back only after they got the national debt paid off and balanced the national budget each year. […]
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One less adult to watch over the ‘children’
Wonderful. That’s just what the conservative movement needs right now. Less adult supervision. But with the fall last week of House Speaker John Boehner — more accurately, with his decision to resign because life is too short for Ted Cruz — that is precisely what conservatives now have. It is a development with sobering implications […]
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R. Casimiro: States taking control
The 113th U.S. Congress expires soon; may it rest in peace. Members can enjoy their retirement, as they did little, and what they did do will vex the public for some time. I remember the Tennessee Ernie Ford song: “You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.” […]
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Cal Thomas: Rep. Paul Ryan’s hope for a Congress that works
Like two predatory animals circling each other, Republicans and Democrats are trying to sort out the meaning of last month’s election and plan strategies for the remaining days of the current Congress and the new one in which Republicans will hold majorities in both houses. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., soon to be chairman of the […]
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J. Arsenault: Put American people first
What have members of Congress done for the economy and the American people since 2008? And what have they done for themselves, the corporate world and Wall Street? You get the picture. They have the best job in the country — $174,000 a year in salary, paid major medical, a pension for life, and vacations […]
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G. Brault: Couldn’t do any worse
Wanted: Bus full of kids to go to Washington, D.C., to take over Congress. They couldn’t do any worse than what we have got down there now. Garry Brault, Lewiston