Comments on: Contract From America: A Tea Party-Fueled Attempt to Be Heard

By: Steven Barnard

Steven Barnard — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:47:24 +0000

Basic simple language limited leagleeze in bills being presentd. We don’t need or want several thousand pages of B.S. to present a proposed bill. PASS the FAIR TAX and all of the graft will be eliminated.

By: Tom L.

Tom L. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:58:42 +0000

Term limits(To include federal judges, to include U.S. Supreme Court)mandated by constitunal ammendments as needed. There are laws already on the books, that require balancing the budgets, enforce them. Too many agencies are issuing regulations,(that are in effect laws). Only congress has the authority to make laws. Americans need to get off of their collective backsides, and do something-Anything to correct this slide to socialism.GOD BLESS AMERICA

By: Peter G Filmanski

Peter G Filmanski — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:39:59 +0000

Every elected official should a pay of the minimum salary, with no backing from their own finances. I’m sure our forefathers who wrote the constitution would agree with me.

By: KDRanch

KDRanch — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:25:15 +0000

TO: Steve B/Colorado
We spend that much because we are the police force for the world, in trade we get folks to buy our debt…..which right now no one wants to buy. There will be a lesson learned soon when no amount of printed money with no value will be reason for anyother country to buy our debt. We always kept the oil coming out of the gulf attack free, just because of our ships. As far as drilling for our own, well really the only reason we are not is because the Mideast would collapse, that is all they have in trade. They do not have private enterprize trading with the rest of the world. If we stop buying their oil can you imagine the explosion that would occur. So many young folks there so little jobs. The governments pay the folks to stay quite and non threating out of oil receipts. You know very little about Geo-politics. Wasn’t long ago we were there under Bush just for the oil…..really….we only get about 14% of our oil from the Middle East, we protect all the rest going to india, Japan etc in trade they buy our debt. If they did not we would be looking at an extreme inflation it soon will happen anyway because of the stupidly growning the size of our debt, because of the politicians who are now in power and their greedy slush fund in Fannie and Freddie….keep being dumb, it’s easier that way.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:41:41 +0000

How about when an elected official is convicted of a felony while in office and he is imprisoned, he automatically loses his tax payer funded pension? I think this has been tried before and turned down. Also any elected official must serve an appropriate number of years, comparable to the private sector, in order to receive the huge pensions they receive. I agree with Wildman- maybe social security should be their only income. Many Americans must survive on this alone. Only when the politicians are put in our positions will they vote in our interest.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:04:27 +0000

This is an outstanding idea. Return government back to the citizens. Of course the left wing wussies will not want this to happen as they may actually have to do something for themselves for a change.

By: Wildman

Wildman — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:21:18 +0000

Term limits have got to be first, then a cut in pay… say to half, then put them on medicare, give them only social insecurity, make the house meet two or three days a month… these people need to keep ‘real jobs’ and maybe they will learn something about the ‘America’ they threw under the bus for the sake of saving the UAW and ‘Goldman Sucks…

By: randy

randy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:04:50 +0000

The first thing on that Contract should be TERM LIMITS!!!! That’s the only thing that will change the culture in Washington DC. Then we do bottom up policy making.

By: aboutTObegin

aboutTObegin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:55:14 +0000

AWESOME!!! Keep up the GREAT work Tea Party!!!! Protect the Constitution and our Childrens Future from these Socialist Communist Liberals!!!

-aTb

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:26:15 +0000

It is great to see people so fired up in the nation and discussing where we are and where we are going. There is much that we all agree on! Don’t believe me? Just let another nation attack our homeland again and war on us. There is a LOT we will find we agree on.

We must reign in Washington D.C. politicians. I think we all agree that we are not very satisfied with how little we are listened to, or even cared about – except at election time. My rep won’t see me, take my call, and when I went to D.C., calling before hand to set up an appointment, her office did not even return my call until a week after I returned home to say sorry! When we travel all the way to DC from California and we can’t even get in the door we have a real problem America.

Let’s all think about what we want, find the 80% we agree on, and make our country stronger. Let’s not let it slip into the failed model of Socialism that Europe is now turning away from. That dog don’t bark.