Tonto - "The Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party have filed suit in Ohio to strike down a part of that state's election law governing voting by active duty military personnel. The law gives military servicemen and women an extra three days to vote in person early than civilian voters. The Democrats do not think this is right.

The reason the Democrats are interested in suppressing the military vote is obvious on its face. Active duty military and retired veterans tend to support Republican candidates more the Democrats, as suggested by polling from both the 2004 election and the 2008 election. The fewer servicemen and women are allowed to vote, the better President Obama's chances of being re-elected are."

@ Donna - You are misinformed. Try a different information source if you want the truth.

where's murrow? I guess the Washington Times and National Journal don't work so much for you? Maybe CNN will pick up the story after the election. They tend to run things a day late and a dollar short anyway.

Donna Griffin,

It's a shame there is no cure for dumb

I'm in, bo bo...sorry took so long to get back to you on this - I was in Trenton, today. As to part one of your upcoming questions - where to cut implies we have a budget to address. As of right now, we don't have one. I've got a shiny new red pen and a bright yellow highlighter to attack whatever is produced, but, and I am not being flip, we have NO idea what Congress is presently spending - there is no budget - only heavily spun "news" reporting - I will never call what we see today "journalism". For a start, however, I think we need to look carefully at tariffs on foreign imports, mirroring the trade practices of our so-called partners...balancing both sides of the negotiation. Does that make me protectionist when it comes to American Manufacturing? Yup. We need to create new Production and Production Capability before we can address a trade deficit. Now, as to deficit SPENDING...our biggest problem in the BUDGET deficit - the largest single item (even though, I repeat, we STILL have no real budget) will almost certainly be the debt service on our unpaid loans. A re-organization of those loans is in order. If you can re-structure your balances between investors at a personal level, why can't we consider such activity at the Federal Level. The only thing we have to remember is that, just because you have something to sell, doesn't mean there's a buyer for it. We keep lending on the cheap to others - why are we not re-leveraging our own debt to reduce the cost?

This may come to you out of order - patch is still "pending" on the first part - which, as is my wont, is exactly 1500 characters. I've gotten good at hitting the limit.

More to say, here - a story explaining the economy when I spoke with a small group in a rural Maine town about a year ago that was seeking to increase the jobs in their town....I sat the 20 or so folks in a circle, having been given the floor in the meeting. I was prepared...I had brought about 50 dollars in singles (no wisecracks, now - I'm a very happily married man). I handed each one of the people two dollars. Then I asked them to pass ONE dollar to the person to their right. That done, I asked them to pass one dollar to their left. I then asked them - so, you have spent both dollars, but you still have two dollars - what did we learn, here? I let them give several answers, and some debate ensued - then I dropped the bomb with the REAL lesson. "Folks," I said, "If you keep doing what you're doing, you keep getting what you've got." In order for ANY of you to have MORE money coming in, that MONEY needs to come from OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE - which means you need to create something WITHIN the circle that someone OUTSIDE is willing to pay for - otherwise you're just running in place. We keep doing "busy work" in our State and at the Federal Level, pushing dollars here and there, with folks skimming off the top - but we're not a NET manufacturer, any more. If it weren't for the food we grow,...

The fastest and most convenient place to cut is described below - the posts don't seem to show up in order. Re-structure our debt service. Raising property taxes has been responsible for a great deal of the defaults we're seeing in homes in our district and elsewhere, and yet the community leadership doesn't understand why they never have enough. Lacey spent money for a feasibility study on a power plant the town is in no way prepared to build out of their own pocket - why were they on the hook for the feasibility study? Because it gave the engineering firm YOUR tax dollars to give back (in part) to the incumbents as campaign donations - that firm is under investigation all over for just that. Meanwhile, one of my "opponents" - an applicant (as am I) for the VACANCY on 11/6/2012 - that's right, a seat in Congress is no one's birthright - was there for a 'feel-good' meeting to justify the expense. The VERY NEXT DAY, we heard from Gov. Christie (same party) that the site for the three (gas) generating plants had already been selected - Do you mean to tell me that nobody bothered to tell JR the play had been changed? IF Lacey thinks that NJ is planning on stepping in to save the plant - they've already said what they're going to do. Meanwhile, a figure was bandied about of 800,000,000 - that's 800 MILLION dollars, to create a cooling tower and keep the plant in compliance. Well, firstly, that figure is an obvious work of fiction. Comcast's skyscraper was only 320M

I bring that up because waste, graft, and PORK are the next items on the chopping block. Folks in Brick - how about the closure of the public boat ramp? What did that cost you? Folks in Pemberton - what will you be on the hook for with the dumping of asphalt screenings in Brendan Byrne State Forest - CREATING an opportunity for someone to be paid to clean it up? The fraud and waste are crippling local budgets, driving up taxes, and putting families already stretched to the limit underwater - the proverbial "last straw". The entrenched party hacks have been picking your pockets for years, and yet people keep voting them right back into office. Take a stand! You've heard me say it - and I MEAN it, with every fiber of my being - "Stand for what's right, or settle for what's left". this should have been the last one - I believe it will appear first.

The replies below are not in order, because of how they show up on patch (my stuff gets moderated almost every time). If you have more specific questions - please ask - If I don't know it, I won't "make it up" - I'll look it up.

Meanwhile, has either of my so-called "major party" opponents signed, or even READ, the "Change the Rules" Pledge? Want to reduce waste and graft and pork in Congress and the Senate? They can - but you have to MAKE them. Go to ChangetheRulesPledge.org, read, and send it to the incumbent - my SIGNED pledge is available on our party website - Democratic-RepublicanParty.org.

We have been fighting for your rights, and will continue to do so. What else have we done for this District, State, and Nation? We're the same folks who are trying to force the US Supreme Court to apply the WHOLE of the Constitution, by enforcing "Article the First"...what IS "Article the First?" Ask me - wcprv@hotmail.com

I'm in, bo bo...sorry took so long to get back to you on this - I was in Trenton, today. As to part one of your upcoming questions - where to cut implies we have a budget to address. As of right now, we don't have one. I've got a shiny new red pen and a bright yellow highlighter to attack whatever is produced, but, and I am not being flip, we have NO idea what Congress is presently spending - there is no budget - only heavily spun "news" reporting - I will never call what we see today "journalism". For a start, however, I think we need to look carefully at tariffs on foreign imports, mirroring the trade practices of our so-called partners...balancing both sides of the negotiation. Does that make me protectionist when it comes to American Manufacturing? Yup. We need to create new Production and Production Capability before we can address a trade deficit. Now, as to deficit SPENDING...our biggest problem in the BUDGET deficit - the largest single item (even though, I repeat, we STILL have no real budget) will almost certainly be the debt service on our unpaid loans. A re-organization of those loans is in order. If you can re-structure your balances between investors at a personal level, why can't we consider such activity at the Federal Level. The only thing we have to remember is that, just because you have something to sell, doesn't mean there's a buyer for it. We keep lending on the cheap to others - why are we not re-leveraging our own debt to reduce the cost?

Snuck the one that was still pending in just now - first one is below. It may show up, again.

Tonto that is such a tired excuse to hide behind while Obama has doubled the debt he called unpatriotic and irresponsible. Blame blame blame. At some point, the idiot needs to take some responsibility for his actions. No wonder no one is this country takes any for theirs.

The annual deficit is $1.3 trillion. Raise all the taxes you want and take in $100 billion. What are we gonna cut to get rid of the other $1.2 trillion to balance the budget.

Please detail the cuts for everyone to see

This is from USA Today

•You've repeatedly proposed to raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year while leaving the Bush tax cuts in place for everyone else. Soaking the rich might be good politics, but non-partisan tax and budget experts agree it won't come close to producing the revenue the nation needs. That will require far more people to share the burden, including some of the nearly half of Americans who pay no federal income tax.
Where do you plan to get the rest of the money?

Medicare spending is double the medicare revenues collected

NOT PAID FOR!

DOD spending is 20% of the budget and you blame that on the deficit. Go ahead, your boys own the Senate. Cut the DOD budget. What are you waiting for? Just think of all those people losing their jobs and homes and the military cuts....but hey Democrats don't care about any of them as long as the freebies keep coming to the cities like phones

The President didnt save anything all he did was rob Peter to pay Paul.....If you do the proper research you can find this anywhere unless your watching MSLSD, CNN, or NBC who apparently are hell bent on ramming this President down our throats again. Bottom line is He had 4 years, 2 of which he had a FULLY DEMOCRATIC controlled Senate and Congress and he accomplished nothing!! You cannot hide the Facts (you can spin them as you and others have tried) its clear as the Day. Furthermore the deficit has gone up, unemployment is still high, we are flirting with another recession and the cost of GAS (which is taxed at the federal level) is insane which is killing the American public. The sad thing is this is not the Democratic Party of the past where the foundation they stood on was solid and for the common man. Now its about entitlements which the elite of the Democratic Party have been able to exploit the minorities it pretends to represent and line their pockets with giant handouts which keeps them in office year after year being re-elected by a segment of society dependent on the GOV for handouts which honestly The Democrats have created and also Mastered...so before you blame the Rep's for the Economy maybe its your party that needs to take a long look at its past and the current actions. And quite frankly the Rep's have a lot of issues also but right now Romney is the lesser evil between Obama Vs. Romney.