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Representative Baumgartner recently wrote “our country is on an unsustainable spending path. We are now over $38 trillion in debt and we are spending more on interest payments than we spend on our military. That’s not good for our country right now and it’s terrible and unfair to future generations.”
This is entirely true. I couldn’t possibly agree more. Which makes it all the more infuriating that he’s done nothing during his time in Congress to address this – indeed, he’s voted repeatedly to make matters worse. Our national debt increased by $2 TRILLION in less than a year and a quarter, while every word the administration says would have us think things are improving.
Baumgartner voted to strip funding from programs that help constituents, while supporting blowing billions of dollars every week on unnecessary military aggression in other countries – countries, plural, as if starting even one war wasn’t more than enough. Voted to defund nutrition and health and education at home, while handing out tax cuts to billionaires and Trump toadies. He’s encouraged the decimation of the Department of Education while simultaneously bemoaning the cost of college tuition and doing nothing to support the elementary schools in our district.
I am weary beyond telling of being represented by hypocrisy. Government should work for us, not strip us to the bone to make the rich richer.
Jessica Adams Colville
Don’t exploit people just because you can
There are many things I could have done in my life just because I had the means to do them. Why didn’t I use my time and money to do those things? I attempted restraint to avoid regretting my actions.
An example is saying or doing hateful things to others because you have authority or economic influence over them or demanding love and respect because you have money and power.
Think of successful people that are hated not for their success but how they use it against others. I have never met a rich person who didn’t screw over other people to gain some of their wealth. My grandmother would stay up all night sewing clothes, and a rich lady would demand a lower price for her work. A deal where she wins and my grandmother loses. Exploiting people because you can is simply wrong.
Current politics has taken the restraint lid off what would normally stay in the political pot. Winning an election today requires the losing side to be totally cast aside and even punished.
The USA has a powerful military, but it doesn’t mean we should bomb and kill people for geo-political purposes. We must use self-restraint.
Pete Scobby Newport
Read the Constitution, not Wikipedia
In response to the person that used Wikipedia of all things. You young people need to read our U.S. Constitution and learn what it says. Read ARTICLE IV Section 4. It states, The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against invasion and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic. Violence.
DEF. of Republican Form of Government: A system of government in which the power of government is vested in the people and delegated by representatives chosen by the citizens, meaning legal citizens. In other words we are a Constitutional Republic, therefor not a Democracy. Once again read the Constitution, it’s the law of the land not the computer versions of what you want to base your beliefs on.
Clinton Tucker Rosalia
