Congress sucks...

[me]

I apologize me. Since the conversation had moved to include the much more costly benefits of insurance, retirement, and cost of living raises, I thought that is what you were referring to. I should realize that not everyone reads posts at the same time and in the same order as I do. I hope you can forgive me for being snotty.

No problem, I'm easy and it's not as if I never make a mistake myself.    

[LOsborne]

Thank you. 

[Henry Hawk]

Barney Frank, in his normal prime fashion...

[me]

Barney Frank, in his normal prime fashion...

He sure don't like to answer questions does he?  I think we're talking major dweeb here....

[Henry Hawk]

Boxer, the U.S. Senator, Chides Brigadier General for Calling Her 'Ma'am'


The feisty California lawmaker reminds an Army brigadier general of her title after he has the apparent gall to call her "ma'am." ...

[me]

Boxer, the U.S. Senator, Chides Brigadier General for Calling Her 'Ma'am'


The feisty California lawmaker reminds an Army brigadier general of her title after he has the apparent gall to call her "ma'am." ...

Talk about attitude.....  

[Henry Hawk]

Rep. Brian Baird (D., Wash.) took a four-day trip to the Galápagos Islands with his wife, four other lawmakers and their family members. The lawmakers spent $22,000 on meals and hotels...

Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) led a group of a half-dozen senators and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show. An itinerary for the event shows that lawmakers flew on the Air Force's version of the Boeing 737, which costs $5,700 an hour to operate. They stayed at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel, which advertises rooms from $460 a night...

Rep. Bud Cramer (R., Ala.) spent two weeks in Europe on government business. Reports show that Mr. Cramer spent $5,700 on hotels, meals and incidentals. Mr. Cramer wasn't running for re-election and left office just two months later...


Congress SUCKS!!!...

[pariann]

I was worried you might not get a Republican in there.

[Henry Hawk]

I was worried you might not get a Republican in there.

Hey, they ALL suck.....some just more than others..but they ALL suck....I am so SICK and TIRED of our money being misused and trashed.

[pariann]

Politics.  ick.

[followsthewolf]

HH posted:
"Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) led a group of a half-dozen senators and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show. An itinerary for the event shows that lawmakers flew on the Air Force's version of the Boeing 737, which costs $5,700 an hour to operate. They stayed at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel, which advertises rooms from $460 a night..."


Not that it has anything to do w/anything Henry, but did you know he is the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor?

[Henry Hawk]

Govt to suspend 'cash for clunkers'......$96 million dollar has already been spent.....

this was maybe the stupidest program that gov has ever done......

[Henry Hawk]

House democrats have declined to subpoena available records that might reveal whether other members of congress got discounted VIP mortgages from subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corps'....

[kimmi]

 A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture
in   California                                                           
when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
                                                                           
  The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses
  and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you 
  exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me
  a calf?"                                                                 
                                                                           
Bud  looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully   
grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?                         
                                                                           
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects 
it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the   
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his   
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the   !
  area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.                                 
                                                                           
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports
it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany ..               
                                                                           
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has
been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database   
through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry 
and, after a few minutes, receives a response.                           
                                                                           
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,     
miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
exactly 1,586 cows and calves."                                           
                                                                           
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.   
  He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with     
amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.           
                                                                           
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my calf?"                             
                                                                           
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
                                                                           
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.                 
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"     
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even     
though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already   
knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of 
equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you     
don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or  about     
cows, for that matter.  This is a herd of sheep. ..                       
                                                                           
                                                                           
Now give me back my dog                                                   
                                                                           

[Henry Hawk]