Your tax dollars at work.

[HS345]

How'd you like to have this scumbag as your representative?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq-NJ1YQu8M

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[tilerite]

Bill O Reilly had this guy on his show last night. The people need to go after this scumbag.

[HS345]

I didn't notice, does this guy have an R, or a D, by his name?:rolleyes:

[tilerite]

I didn't notice, does this guy have an R, or a D, by his name?

Take your wildest guess.

[Saldibs]

How'd you like to have this scumbag as your representative?

:bang:

[sgrandjean]

Sal,
I take it that he represents the land on which you live?

Cheers.

[tilerite]

Here is what someone posted to me on another forum on which the same topic has come up:

I don't agree with this logic at all. We hear all about how our kids are "unsafe" in these days, yet this is largely untrue. A study done by Steven Pinker of Harvard recently found that today we are most likely living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence. War and organized violence is down over 60% since the mid-1980's. The revolution in information technologies brings us a vivid, instant, and continuous flow of news (usually bad and depressing) on a 24 hour cycle. There is no break. Every weather disturbance is the "Storm of the Century" and each time a bomb goes off it is a DEVELOPING STORY or BREAKING NEWS. Americans did not receive daily footage of the 2 million executed in the killing fields in Cambodia or the millions being slaughtered in Africa in the early 90's. Now we get live feeds of IEDs going off in some remote Iraqi village. Even better are these news stories about white women that are killed or kidnapped that take over the national news media. Tragic, but happening since the beginning of time. The randomness of violence, and the ease and volume in which we receive this information is quite disturbing and makes everyone question whether that could have been himself or a family member. That's understandable. All the data from the US Justice Department and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children indicate that kidnappings are on a steady decline and have been for years. Each year 200 to 300 children are taken in the "stereotypical" kidnapping, and in all cases of missing, abandoned, exploited children, a parent or immediate family member is responsible in 98+% of the cases. While 700,000+ children go missing each year, only a minuscule percentage are non-family abductions, and of those 94% are returned to their families. Without Jessica's Law our kids are unsafe? What? This is the 21st century, if someone wants to do harm to another, they're going to do it. You aren't going to stop them. Do you think the majority of people that are affected by a law like this are sane and clear thinking to begin with? It's not even about "child rape," it's about our rights as American citizens and our court system. I've seen enough of my liberties and rights checked in this post-9/11 alarmist world. The American legal tradition, which is probably one of the most sacred and important aspects of our government, is premised on a judge and a jury. To take all power away from them and institute mandatory minimums that doesn't even allow for issues to be addressed on a case-by-case basis is very disturbing to me. Maybe its my general disgust with the War on Drugs and how mandatory minimum sentencing in that realm has created a War on Friends and Family that destroys lives. Clearly victimless crimes and child rape are very different. Maybe I just trust that a jury and judge will be able to fulfill the roles granted to them by our Founders. Trust me, you only hear about the cases in which the offender is a recidivist, and not the thousands of Americans who learn from their mistakes and become productive members of society. If someone is found guilty of raping a child, they should receive a life sentence. There's no doubt about it, but why can't we let a judge and jury do this job. Life is too complex and filled with too many variables for cookie-cutter laws that don't allow a judge, jury, or even prosecutor to use their discretion.

[MudMaker]

Sorry bout your luck Sal.. :)

[HS345]

This was onna gas pump the other day.

"Big Oil" gets about 7 or 8 cents per gallon. And to get that they only have to explore, drill, pump, transport, refine, and deliver. The gummint has to do NOTHING.

[quiet_observr]

Did "Big Oil" build any of those roads you drive on every day?

I can't say if I'd want that guy to be my representative, but if I were on trial for a crime that could put me in jail for life, he's exactly the type I'd want to defend me.

[HS345]

Actually, yes, big oil DID build many of the roads they travel on. Not only do they provide much of the raw materials used in road construction, the MASSIVE tax bill they pay goes into all sorts of wasteful government spending, including substandard road construction.

The fact that you would use an absolute scumbag to represent you says a lot about your character.

[ddmoit]

It's true that the government provided the road (with wealth legally plundered from others), but it does not follow that the road would not have been provided without government.

The market is far superior to government when it comes to directing scarce scarce resources in a manner that most efficiently meets the demands of society.