Comments on: Why is Congress spending its time and effort passing anti flag burning laws and regulating online gambling?

By: dkstringer24

dkstringer24 — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:25:14 +0000

Aww common
They already figured out that Iraq thing…it’s totally over.
They did a great job figuring out immigration.
No child left behind is working out really well.
Social Security is fine.

If we can just stop flag burning and stop the gays from getting married all of our countries problems will be solved.

By: coombs1973

coombs1973 — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:17:38 +0000

They can think & deal with more than one thing at the time. They are working on SS & Medicare which are not on the brink of bakruptcy. Total overdramatization. Working on illegals – incl. building fence. Lower our salaries & jobs will stay in US. It is free commerce why would business not want higher profits & the US goverment has no business in private enterprise. We are free not goverment controlled – that is USSR. The flag is our national symbol – in war time many of us have issues with flag buring esp. by illegals. On line gambling is ruining a lot of lives including teenagers & college students. They are overseas companies taking advantage of our youth.

By: gijason

gijason — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:54:29 +0000

Because they are over paid and under-worked. Congress was never intended to be a full time job. Members of Congress were only supposed to meet for a few months out of the year to address specific issues of concern. The rest of the the year they were supposed to be at home with their constituents and working real jobs.

By: gsrgjr

gsrgjr — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:27:09 +0000

IT’S CALLED DIVERSION. SPEAK ABOUT MOM, THE FLAG AND APPLE PIE AND YOU CAN WALK A SAFE PATH. VERY FEW WILL ATTACK THESE ISSUES.

By: abooher0418

abooher0418 — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:07:24 +0000

Because whenever Congress can’t agree on something they pass a bunch of pointless less meaningful bills to make it look like they are actually doing something and earning the ridiculous amounts of money they get paid to do their posh jobs.

Flag burning is a non-issue, although I don’t agree with it, passing a bill making it illegal is a clear violation of the first amendment. The same goes for policing the internet. If online gambling is outlawed indirectly by making credit card payments for gambling illegal then that would just open the door to them taxing the internet like they own it. Its all garbage.

Instead the hundreds of dollars I spend in Social Security taxes each paycheck are earning a whopping -5.6% in interest each month. Can’t wait till I turn 65 and cash that check in!

By: marieandlucaspape

marieandlucaspape — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:27:31 +0000

I for one think flag burning is very disrespectful! If I saw someone doing that, I’d beat the living sh*t out of them!

By: Elwood

Elwood — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:49:29 +0000

The are a lot of do nothing fat cats that simply want to get to their fat pensions. They are afraid for the most part to take a stand on any important issues. They distance themselves from anyone who has the guts to talk about real issues. Do you remember the headlines the day before 9-1-1. It was about them setting up to take money out of the social security fund. Some smokescreen huh?

By: weirdarchives@prodigy.net

weirdarchives@prodigy.net — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:42:00 +0000

They’re trying to rally in their voting base and show them they’re doing something constructive. It’s a lot like how some workers do meaningless tasks to show the boss that they’re busy when in fact they’re just goofing around.

By: billybetters2

billybetters2 — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:30:04 +0000

Why do they deal with so many of the things that they do? Because it is of importance to someone.

I agree with the anti-flag burning legislation that they tried to pass. Untill people learn to respect something or someone then there is no respect for anything and anyone.

By: just a mom

just a mom — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:48:06 +0000

I think if they spent their time doing what the majority of Americans (legal, voting Americans, that is) want them to do, like securing the border and deporting all illegal immigrants, they wouldn’t have to worry about flag burning.