http://gradegov.com/forum/categories/debt/feed.rss Sun, 26 May 13 01:12:55 -0700 Debt - GradeGov Forum en-CA http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/23/senate-dems-are-afraid-of-you-and-me-and-are-running-away-from-obama Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:45:57 -0700 gradegovfounder 23@/forum/discussions
Background:

Sen. Reid introduced a Senate bill to provide certain small business tax relief when they hired new employees as well has depreciation tax credit. The vote yesterday was 80 to 14 to move to proceed to this small business tax bill. Most of the Senate GOP joined the Senate Dems in wanting to begin this debate notwithstanding the fact that all "money bills" (bills that raise revenue, fund government agencies, etc..) must originate in the House per our Constitution.

This morning, Sen. McConnell offered a consent agreement to continue to move the bill forward. It goes like this:

--Vote on a Hatch/McConnell amdt to the bill which extends for 1 year all of the Bush tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 that expire Dec. 31, 2012 and directs the Finance committee to begin writing comprehensive tax reform

--Vote on the Obama tax plan announced this week allowing only the Bush tax cuts for those making under $250K to be extended for 1 year. All other tax provisions that have been enjoyed since 2001 would expire Dec. 31, 2012.

Senator Reid objected to this agreement. The obvious conclusion is that the 16 Senate Democratic seats up for relection are afraid of casting a vote against continuing all of the Bush tax cuts, notwithstanding yesterday's visit by David Axelrod's to the Senate Democratic caucus luncheon to appeal for unity behind the President.

Since the 16 Senate Democrats don't want their constituents to know how they would vote on these issues, what if GG members called the 16 Senate Democrats and asked them how they would vote on the President's tax proposal vs the Hatch/McConnell tax proposal? The list is below:

Democrats/Independents seeking re-election Capitol switchboard: 1-202-224-3121

Dianne Feinstein of California
Tom Carper of Delaware
Bill Nelson of Florida
Ben Cardin of Maryland
Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Claire McCaskill of Missouri
Jon Tester of Montana
Bob Menendez of New Jersey
Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Sherrod Brown of Ohio
Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
Bernie Sanders of Vermont (Independent)
Maria Cantwell of Washington
Joe Manchin of West Virginia

Keep the faith!

The Honorable Elizabeth B. Letchworth
U.S.Senate Secretary for the Majority/Minority (retired)
Senior Legislative Advisor Covington & Burling, LLC
Owner-Founder of GradeGov.com
202-365-0669 (direct)]]> http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/27/federal-elected-performance Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:49:00 -0700 dp103 27@/forum/discussions 1) No vote, no pay, 2) no answer to role call, no pay. 3) federal defict, no pay. 4) non represttive vote of dist you represent, .pay
These thugs are being paid to represent your dist. If they don't perform fire their sorry a$$.]]> http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/26/if-you039ve-got-a-business-you-didn039t-build-that-is-exactly-100-wrong Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:55:40 -0700 gradegovfounder 26@/forum/discussions Our President was trying to say that the Government is responsible, from teachers to roads, it is the government to who you owe your success. WHAT? The President has it exactly 180 degrees wrong...the government owes business, not business owing government. Think about it:

--What happens every April 15--we pay taxes to the government having worked most likely for a business
--What happens after the 1st quarter of the year-Businesses pay 1st quarter taxes to the government
--What happens aftre the 2nd quarter of the year-Businesses pay 2nd quarter taxes, 3rd quarter and 4th quarter, all the same occurs
--What happens to every pay check you recieve-Your business withholds Social Security and federal income tax from your checks and pays it to the government
--What happens every time we put a gallon of gasoline in our vehciles--we pay a portion of the cost of the gasoline to the government
--What happens everytime we buy a product--we pay sales tax on that item to the government

Soooo... without the American business, who employ people who buy gasoline and buy goods and services in America, the government has NOTHING. It has no money to build roads, to pay teachers, etc...Once again, our President obviously doesn't "get it", he has it wrong. This is America's core, America's DNA and our President has it exactly backwards. So very sad for our country. Pls vote on Nov. 6 and keep the faith!]]> http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/25/senate-needs-to-start-disclosing-now Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:24:05 -0700 gradegovfounder 25@/forum/discussions
--The Senate Budget resolution. A annual Budget is required by law to be passed each year. Yet the Senate Democrats have not DISCLOSED to the American people a budget resolution in the last 3 years

--Appropriations bills. These bills are required to fund all of our federal agencies and this legislative task is explicitly described in our Constitution as a "to-do" for Congress. The Senate Democratic Leader has announced that the Senate will not DISCLOSE to the American people how Senators will vote on any of these 12 bills that fund our entire federal government

--An extension of the Bush tax cuts. The Senate Democratic Leader objected last week to my request to have the Senate DISCLOSE to the American people how Senators would vote to extend all or some of the expiring tax provisions that will cause dozens of tax provisions to expire and thus lead to tax increases beginning in Jan. of 2013

--The defense authorization bill. For over 50 years the Senate has passed an annual authorization bill for our defense department. The defense community and our men and women in the armed forces deserve to have their Senators DISCLOSE to them how they would vote on the hundreds of policies that run our department of defense

--A vote to keep the child tax credit from being cut in half. This significant tax deduction for families will disappear in Jan. The American people want the Senate to DISCLOSE how they would vote on cutting the child tax credit

--A vote to patch the Alternative minimum tax. 30 million taxpayers will have to pay a new and additional tax if this AMT is not delayed or "patched". The American people want the Senate to DISCLOSE how Senators would vote on taxing 30 million new Americans beginning in 2013

--A vote to reimburse doctors when they see Medicare patients. The American people and the medical community want the Senate to DISCLOSE how they would vote to fully reimburse doctors for seeing Medicare patients or to cut their reimbursement rate 23% beginning in Jan. of 2013

--A bill to address the across-the-board $1.2 trillion spending sequester. The Senate Democratic Leadership has DISCLOSED that they will insist that these cuts go into effect in January unless the Republicans agree to raise taxes on Americans making over $200,000.

Let's DISCLOSE to the American people how the United States Senate will handle these vital policy questions that effect every American household and every American business. Then maybe the Senate republicans would be ready to vote to proceed to the DISCLOSE act, which requires certain disclosure of campaign contributions. Which DISCLOSURE do you want the United States Senate reveal?

The Honorable Elizabeth B. Letchworth
U.S.Senate Secretary for the Majority/Minority (retired)
Senior Legislative Advisor Covington & Burling, LLC
Owner-Founder of GradeGov.com
202-365-0669 (direct)]]> http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/17/lost-law-of-the-sea-treaty Sun, 03 Jun 2012 06:04:37 -0700 docfreeman 17@/forum/discussions “Under the treaty, the transfer of these funds does not end with nation states,” they write. “These royalty revenues would even be extended to ‘peoples who have not attained full independence or other self-governing status.’ That means groups like the Palestinian Authority and potentially other groups with terrorist ties.
“Ceding authority to the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica (ISA) would mean that the sovereignty currently held by the U.S. over the natural resources located on large parts of the continental shelf would be lost. That loss would mean lost revenue for the U.S. government in the form of lost royalties that the U.S. government collects from the production of those resources,” the senators write.
Estimates are that the resources have a value in the range of “trillions.”
Top officials such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey have argued on behalf of the treaty before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
It seems that most Democrats want to go to socialism or a New World Order. I do not think that most Americans want to be ruled by a small group of rich and powerful people who do not care about anyone but themselves and how much profit they can make for themselves. Please write, call, or e-mail your Congressmen/women and tell them do NOT vote for LOST. Let us keep America the Home of the Free and the Brave. Because Without America There Is No Free World – Canada Free Press
]]> http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/18/how-congress-works Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:39:46 -0700 mkgaylord 18@/forum/discussions http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/10/budget-failures-by-our-congress Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:49:49 -0700 gradegovfounder 10@/forum/discussions The Senate is in violation of the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment law but no one seems to care enough to even mention it on nationwide TV. This makes me want to throw out the current bunch of MOC out of office. What say you?]]> http://gradegov.com/forum/discussion/16/abolish-the-department-of-education Sun, 13 May 2012 10:37:39 -0700 docfreeman 16@/forum/discussions We can thank our second worst president Jimmy Carter for recreating the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) and signed into law on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 16, 1980. American education is in crisis. Every year, millions of children pass through America’s schools without receiving a quality education that prepares them to succeed in life, compete in the increasingly competitive global economy, and maintain the blessings and responsibilities of a free society. It also imperils our national security.

Went http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_minimum_passing_grade_for_high_school_exit_exam
and asked, What is the minimum passing grade for high school exit exam?
Minimum passing grade in most schools is, 66 that means you pass.
Well way back in the dark ages when I went to school if you did not get 75 or above you failed, and to be quite honest I would prefer a teacher or a doctor that passed with 75 or up above not at 66.

Our schools are not even teaching our children what really happened on 9/11. In the text books they have it down as group of men merely fighting for a cause instead of telling them it was radical Muslim extremist that killed over 3,000 people because of some idiot saying this is not politically correct. It is not politically correct to tell the truth anymore. Bull!
Since the progressives have taken over written and publishing school text books they have decided that people like George Washington, Madison, Jefferson and few others are not really important enough for the history of America.
Here is another example of why the federal government should not be involved in our schools.
In a recent “informal open letter” to employers across the country, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) stated that requiring that applicants have a high school diploma is excluding those who were unable to graduate due to a learning disability.
It is an insult to those who struggle to overcome their disabilities to be compared to the people who just couldn’t be bothered to tear themselves away from their smoke-filled basements and go to class. Perhaps this wasn’t the intention of the EEOC’s letter, but that is the result. They aren’t asked that the job applications be marked “diploma negotiable” — after discussion about the equivalent experience that someone could have that would qualify them for the job in place of their diploma — but that it be deleted altogether.

Time we the America Voters and Tax Payer told the federal government what they can and cannot do. We are the sovereignty and we give the federal government permission to do what we say, not the other way around. (See our Constitution Amendment X).
Let us all write, call, e-mail our federal officials and State officials and demand that the Department of Education at the federal level be abolished and let each State and local counties, and towns handle the education of our children.

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