http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/29242 The oldest political news site on the Internet Tue, 21 May 2013 01:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/29242/comment-page-1#comment-68402 woody188 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:20:36 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=29242#comment-68402 They should tack it on the same bill as their annual raises. That one never fails.

]]> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/29242/comment-page-1#comment-68202 paulb6 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:56:47 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=29242#comment-68202 I will always feel like it is my duty to help someone in need, that being said I dispise congress always adding everything onto a bill and then when it is rejected because of the add ons the polititions always spin it to reflect whatever they want to say. The polititions are as a group vile, paid for people who only want us at election time. Time to change this political system and bring about a true third political party.

]]> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/29242/comment-page-1#comment-68194 Concerned Citizen Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:31:38 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=29242#comment-68194 Unemployment benefits don’t explain how we got here. Remember when one by one steel, autos, textiles, furniture and many other industries were being shut down and given away, with nothing in return ? Pronouncements from Washington assured us we were better off, citing pension and medical costs and the need to phase them out in favor of cheap imports. Optimists said don’t worry, dreaming loudly of the coming high tech information age, the magic bullet that will someday propel us from the abyss. Today of course those same voices are largely silent as the majority of advanced degrees in math, science, medicine, and engineering are awarded by America’s finest universities to foreign students, and as U.S. corporations routinely export fundamental technologies while simultaneously importing thousands of H-1B engineering and software professionals from the vast pools of technical talent in India and China where the newest R&D centers have been built. And neither are they saying much about the billions of dollars flowing into banking industry bonuses at a time high school teachers in math and science are lucky to have jobs, never mind the mediocre pay. What should be clear by now . . . . policies like these explain rapidly growing deficits, bankrupt governments, and ranks of jobless Americans far more accurately than temporary effects of a recession. We can only hope elected officials soon realize that true superpower status can not be sustained by a superficial debt ridden economy built on derivatives, strip malls, $10/hr jobs, and cheap imports at Walmart.

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