Here’s to better Congress, with better, more patriotic Representatives.

Am I the only one that thinks of Robert Heinlein’s amazing novel “Starship Troopers” when they read stories like this?

Just curious.

David Bellavia - New York’s 26th District

United States Army Veteran

Is THE Army SSG David Bellavia, Medal of Honor nominee

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2006/06/more_vets_go_ba.html

I know exsactly what you mean man, crazy an’t it. The man was ahead of his time

hoplitesamurai

I know exsactly what you mean man, crazy an’t it. The man was ahead of his time

April 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

Damn straight. I was really disapointed that the movie they made didn’t spend some time on the socio-political aspect of that story. It really affected my political and philosophical developement, along with “Harrison Bergeron” by Vonnegut, “The Marching Morons” by Kornbluth and this little nugget shared by a HS teacher in my formative years:

Best explanation to share with your congressman, who clearly does not
understand this complex principle.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten
comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go
something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.

‘Since you are all such good customers,’ he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the
cost of your daily beer by $20.’ Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the
first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what
about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the
$20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that
from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end
up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would
be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he
proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to
drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare
their savings.

‘I only got a dollar out of the $20 declared the sixth man. He pointed to
the tenth man, ‘but he got $10!’

‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too.
It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’

‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I
got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’

‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth
man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without
him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something
important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half
of the bill!

And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how
our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most
benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being
wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start
drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4244798&page=1

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THIS is perhaps the most important one of these races. The biggest problem is Murtha has been the damn “drug-dealer” of earmarks to his district … which keeps his bloated junkie constituency voting for him.

If Lt.Col. Russell is damn serious about finally booting this bastard out of that seat he’d better go full balls to the wall against Murtha … None of the McCain nicey-nice shit. The last Repub that ran against “Jack” didn’t do that.

Since that election the whole Murtha dropping his linens and shitting all over the Marines in the Haditha case has come about … Lt. Col. Russell, PLEASE! use it to the fullest!

Not only taking out Murtha stabs the overly comfy dems in the gut, but twists the knife that an Iraq War vet took him out.

As to the two Ohio seats, they’re out of my hands … My district is pretty much locked in by the damn democrat supporting unions … and a young lap-pup dem who has held the seat since Rep. Jim Trafficant (D) was railroaded by his own party (and the leftover dem influenced FBI) because he wouldn’t tow the party-line and play ball with them, and tossed into the federal pen to rot for charges so lame and much lesser than those leveled against New Jersey dem Robert G. Torricelli who is out not only walking about as a free man, but may run for an office again … and don’t get me started on William Jefferson (D - La.) …

BTW

Ugly as he was, Trafficant was his own man … fuck the party. His supposed corruption was so damn shitty lame it’s to laugh … He would hold the democrat’s feet to the fire on the floor of the House with his colorful speeches, and that embarrassed the hell out of them. If a union wnet on strike in the area he was back up here refereeing and mediating between the unions and the companies/schools systems to keep the strikes as short as possible.

My area’s not hopeless … there are tiny glimmers. In the 2004 presidential race between GWBush and John Kerry Youngstown’s democrat mayor at the time (George McKelvey) stepped forward and supported Pres. Bush … even appeared with him and introduced him to the crowd when he came to town and even spoke at the GOP convention.

This area is a spoiled child just begging for a good spanking. If you talk to most middle-class dems here, or listen to their gripes, once they get past the “my” union mentality spewage they are completely against all this government controlled and funded bullshit the dems run on.

When you point out they are actually moderate conservatives and/or republican-lites they stumble away as if to avoid looking in a mirror.

It’s an inbred mentality in this area.

I just don’t know what it will/would take to yank this area out of its political ignorance … But then, we ARE talking about an area that lives and breathes their future as if actually hitting the state lottery is a REAL option for them.

So, the dems campaign on “we’ll bring you jobs and give you government money (which is actually THEIR own money)” and the voters stupidly think it’s some damn lottery windfall …

DAMN! I wish I could vote for him!

David Bellavia is demonstrably cut from the same cloth.

Visit their websites through www.iraqvetsforcongress.com and, if you can afford it, drop them a few bucks to carry on the war against the domestic insurgency. On the other hand, can you afford not to?

Their opponents are getting funding from George Soros and the other radical leftists who wish to see America destroyed.

Dan Maloney
NY State Coordinator
Gethering of Eagles

Go Manion!!!

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe 1 million was what I read as the number of service personnel that have already rotated through tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are mostly young and starting out in families and will return to the private sector eventually to be successful citizens. I suspect that most are not liberal pansies.

When I was younger I had several patients who were WWII vets and a couple of gentlemen who were concentration camp survivors. (Sadly , most have passed on now.) Meeting evil up close and personal seemed to instill in them a particular focus in politics and it was not a liberal outlook. Yes they disdained war, but they also knew evil had to be confronted and that the USA was really the only one who had the might to do it.

There might be a short term swing to liberal democrat agenda here but I am hopeful that the men and women who were “in the arena” come to power in about 3 election cycles and set things straight.

In Russell’s sparse Clinton Street studio apartment, you won’t find many personal touches. The walls are bare. On a coffee table sits a well – thumbed copy of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, a novel Russell counts among his favorites.

His apartment is Johnstown and he is spending less and less time at his place in Virginia. This year, home is where the voter is.

Russell says he has no illusion that it’ll be easy but setting up a Johnstown beach head will make him better known. Even at Republican events, he can still stroll through the room without attracting a crowd. At a “Meet the Candidates Night” in January, seven people showed up to meet Russell.

Russell has a round of You Tube ads that portrays him as a local guy. One shows him and his bride walking in Indiana with Bruno’s Restaurant in the background.

Russell has been seen around Johnstown wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers hat, but if you ask him, he’ll tell you that he doesn’t like wearing hats. He spends time shaking hands with Murtha’s neighbors.

People see through things like this.