“While normally, I'd be all for the frightened bigots needlessly wasting their money on a useless wall, it would still be an utterly imbecilic idea to build one. There are much better uses that money could be put to - repairing our infrastructure, obviously necessary investment in our education for t…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“A faster turnover in legislators would help ensure that party politics, which lead to more divisiveness, instead of cooperation for the betterment of all citizens, becomes a thing of the past. We might get new people, not entrenched with the way things have been done in the past, who not only listen…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“We have dragged our feet on trying to slow the progress if climate change long enough. It is possibly already too late to have adequate effect in our lifetime. We need to stop using fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy sources as fast as we can. Sustainable energy sources also provide some mu…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“Sorry, folks, but the bribes must go! Overturn Citizens United and get the filthy money out of our nation's politics now! Money should never decide a contest for representatives of the people. Only votes should. No gerrymandering, no artificial hoops to jump through, to exercise our right to govern …”
- ANNEMARIE M
“A shutdown caused by bad politics is no excuse for not protecting our natural resources - close the parks if the staff is forced to stay home and starve.
Congress should also work on getting the government open again - no other legislation should be worked on, until all employees are being paid to d…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“No money wasted on a useless wall to boost Trump's ego! We need a working government to provide vital services for citizens, and to perform the myriad tasks federal employees are currently expected to perform without a paycheck. We need the money for infrastructure projects, which have been neglecte…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“Until Medicare for All is enacted, the elderly, poor and children must be protected from death by systemic neglect. Healthcare is a right, not a commodity for profit. Citizens deserve healthcare, whether they can afford it or not. We all pay taxes and should get a return on those monies, just as cer…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“This increases the burden upon U.S. citizens, who need assistance such as SNAP, to provide hitherto unneeded extra documentation to prove their citizenship. Native Americans, while having arrived here first, would suffer adversely from this measure, as would any impoverished citizen who had been bor…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“No wall! How about fixing immigration instead? How about letting asylum seeking families out of the concentration camps this administration has incarcerated them in - separating families, who are legally seeking asylum? How about using those trillions of dollars you don't have coming in, thanks to t…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“A border wall will fail to do its' job, and will be a further waste of taxpayer funds at a time when tax income has been drastically cut by giving tax breaks to all the top earners, the billionaire class and corporations, who continue to use our infrastructure without contributing to our common publ…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“Until the corruption and greed of our current healthcare "system" can be removed, by replacing it with single-payer coverage for all from cradle to grave, we need some form of "care" to remain in place. Ours is, sadly, the last civilized country to refuse comprehensive healthcare to all citizens, re…”
- ANNEMARIE M
“Another gross waste of legislative time and excuse NOT to do anything of lasting importance, such as working on installing universal healthcare for all, or a humane immigration policy. Do the work you were elected to do, instead of play-acting and wasting our taxpayer dollars on non-essentials like …”
- ANNEMARIE M
“People seeking legal amnesty should not be met with armed resistance, but with an increase in lawyers and judges to process their requests. It is past time for immigration reform, which is Congress's job, and past time to end the horrendous treatment this administration has been giving these refugee…”
- ANNEMARIE M