Comments by "John G Williams" (@johnwilliams8818) on "BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republican Leaders Hold Press Briefing Amidst Fears Of Government Shutdown" video.

Personally I think they should let it all shut down. Then, discover which services actually need funding "RIGHT NOW" pass an individual bill to fund THAT service, and continue to stop all the frivolous spending, cut all the pork, chop all the special incentives, and tell everyone to do their jobs and stop trading votes for earmarks put into a bill that needs to be trimmed as much as possible.
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I don't think these people should get paid UNTIL they resolve these issues. I also think they should have to pay all the same taxes and social security contributions we do, and that they should get the same health insurance we do, none of this 100% premium tax payer funded stuff! And they DO NOT get all this time off they do! Normal people work just as hard (if not harder) and we don't get months off of work.
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Its been nothing but a sideshow since its inception. I am sure the founding fathers were a little more serious, but even then it was more like a gentlemen's club were the men got together to drink whiskey and smoke cigars and talk about stuff. I personally think they should put the bills together, and then present them to the people to vote on like those Call In shows did. One vote from each person eligible. We are assigned social security numbers pretty much the day we are born. So you dial in, enter your SSN and then vote. If you do and the system says you already did? You type 9 for an agent who will investigate the origin of the first vote. If it came from an untraceable number, or some place other than where you live? It's logged and invalidated so you can cast your vote. Where there is a will, there is a way, and I am tired of these tech companies blowing smoke up our areses with this "We can track where calls come from" BS. Two different devices have to identify themselves in order to make a connection. It's not brain surgery, it's them profiting off the scammers call centers
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I spent 5 years in the Air Force back in the late 80s, THAT is another operation which needs an independant, public audit. Most americans have heard stories about expensive tools, that have been joked about in movies, but these are actually true things. The military puts out notices, for companies to bid on, for just about anything they need in bulk. The companies bid and produce "exactly" what the notice wanted based on the included specs. One example was 10 thousand high power stainless steel microwave ovens, to be used for quick heating, simple use, that had 10 presets from 10 sec. to 2 min. (no timer). They were made, and put into a warehouse, and then as needed thy would be requested and paid for (again) from funds allocated to that base, org, sq, etc. It wasn't discovered till long after? That most of them didn't work, the company had gotten paid, and there was no recourse. All that money wasted.
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I also think that it should be a law that they CANNOT sign any piece of legislation until THEY PERSONALLY have read every word, cover to cover, and that each piece of legislation can only be about ONE ITEM, and cannot be longer than one thousand words. It should also be that they need to have sufficient time to read, review, and research the bills. At least 72 hours for one thousand words. It's ridiculous that these sixteen thousand page (pages! not words) massive bills get printed the night before and then these people don't even read them and just sign them!
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Ithink we need another civilian uprising, and this time "We the People" get it better than we did the last time. They work for us, not themselves. We get to set the terms of their employment, their pay and benefits, what we expect from them, no lobbyists or special benefits. They also do NOT get to invest in anything while they are in office, nor do their immediate families. And they should face immediate investigation if all of a sudden "Auntie" has a stock portfolio that magically begins growing larger. What's that?!? You three year old grandson became a millionaire overnight? Straight to prison if it turns out there was anything you were even remotely involved with.
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