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Only 63 broken promises. Most of them to do with earmarking for things he believes needs funding, but we cannot afford to fund right now. He was stalled on 67 promises he tried to keep but was swatted down with. What is impressive is that he's kept 168 promises and has passed timed legislature on another 156 promises. If you count his compromises as political victories, he has an AMAZING record. If not, he's still either kept of started the ball with 64% of EVERYTHING he has promised.
My district is a republican; Rosemary Brown, I voted for her.
My senator is Robert Casey. Lol I remembered the Casey, I had to google his first name.
And Mikey, YES I'm asking you to sacrifice more. Our country is on the brink of self destruction. I'm paying more in taxes, paying more for gasoline, I'm volunteering time to help those in need and I'm giving back more than I can afford myself. We are ALL required more. When we became an independent country, the citizens themselves picked up arms. Not a military, a CIVILIAN militia. One made up of the people for the people. Several of them sacrificed EVERYTHING and they had NO cushion. No pay, no health insurance, no meals from the government, just the promise of a better tomorrow for their children and so on.
We are at a turning point in the country. EVERYONE has to give more. When Obama wanted to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, I stood behind him. When he wanted to cut several other faux pas programs I stood behind him. There ARE people that NEED welfare. My mother was one of them. And then she finished college and I had a better life. It helped her be independent while she finished her studies and moved on to her career.
There ARE more things that can be cut, social security needs to be bumped up to 70 or even 75. (It was a program designed for people that lived BEYOND life expectancy to continue being able to fund their lives and not starve to death when they COULDN'T work any longer.)
Wasteful spending (The F-22 raptor for instance was cut) NEEDS to be cut. We need to get out of Iraq AND Afghanistan, we need to STOP stockpiling nukes, we need to decommission MORE of them so we don't waste money on the upkeep.
But I'm not saying to PICK one. I'm saying find the corners and cut them. We don't need people crying that they aren't getting free healthcare. And if you say Obamacare is free healthcare, you're full of shit. Obamacare is regulation on the insurance industry and the people in order to cut MORE government cost when it comes to saving lives. If you go to the hospital and can't pay your bill, NO LONGER should it fall on the government's shoulders to pay the bill. If you have AIDS, you should NOT be dropped by your insurance company.
If you want to bitch and moan that you're not getting it as easy as you were, build a time machine and go back to that point, if you can man up and make the sacrifices that everyone else is making, then make them. Tomorrow is a brighter day, but we can't get there without doing, today, what needs to be done.