Term limits now!
Madoff's accountant just got sentenced to one year of home confinement for complicity in the theft of $50 billion. I wonder how this sentence compares to somebody who steals a six pack of beer.
Picking on a candidate's appearance is just plain juvenile and does not belong in intelligent discourse.
Shouldn't a politician's job be to educate their constituents, not pander to their ignorance and prejudice just to get elected and reelected?
All other advanced countries in the world have spent the last decade educating their people for the 21st Century and implementing superior health programs while we've squandered our treasury picking fights with every petty dictator around the world. Who's really "exceptional"?
Why is DeKalb County voting to approve $300K salary for a $100K job? Pitiful. They'll have to find funding for it without my tax dollars.
Dennis Hastert could have learned something from David Letterman. When a blackmailer puts out his hand, cuff it, turn him over to the police, and state the truth. ("The truth will set you free.")
Having a Mohammed drawing contest in front of a Phoenix area mosque — what the! What happened to plain old respect?
If you don't like the minimum wage, learn a trade or skill that pays more than minimum wage. In my experience, most minimum wage workers aren't worth minimum wage.
I work for a business that is unionized. When Scott Walker in Wisconsin offered tax breaks to businesses that hired new employees or moved into the state, our union officials crucified him in the union journal. Now that NY has gone over and above what Gov. Walker did, have not heard a peep from the union about it.
Corruption among politicians is one of the few things in Illinois that is nonpartisan. Maybe 'Land of Lincoln' should be replaced by 'Leading the Nation in Corruption'.
And that's the way it is.
The biggest lie we tell ourselves is we shouldn't judge but the reality is yes we should judge who we associate with, what kind of people they are and we are and the effect they have on our lives. Be careful who you associate with, they will either bring you down or bring you up.
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