Gridlock is Getting in the Way
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Our first television ad of the general election hit the airwaves today. Please take a look.
Throughout this campaign, the number one concern that I hear from people across the district is that Congress “isn’t getting anything done.” We put this ad together as a summary of this issue and what we will do to turn things around. All of the bickering has drowned out any consideration of the even-keeled, common-sense policies we need to rebuild the middle class, make college more affordable, and make health care more accessible.
We’ve been lacking sensibility in Congress for too long. There’s simply nothing sensible about wasting $50 million in taxpayer money on 80 hours of debate, voting 33 times to symbolically repeal the Affordable Care Act. And there’s nothing reasonable about opposing basic workplace protections for all Americans or voting to end the Medicare guarantee, replacing it with an expensive voucher. Yet, that’s exactly what my opponent and his Tea Party allies have done during his term in office.
It’s time to move beyond the partisan bickering and gridlock. The issues before us are complex and challenging, and the only way we can tackle them is together. That’s the approach I’ve used for more than 25 years helping small businesses succeed, and it’s the same levelheaded approach I’ll bring to Washington. What you see is what you get.
I hope you enjoy the ad.
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Brad Schneider
Candidate for United States Congress - 10th District
Guido McGinty
11:19 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
"the number one concern that I hear from people across the district is that Congress "isn’t getting anything done.""
If only this were true. Doing less damage would be a feature, not a bug.
Guido McGinty
11:22 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
"All of the bickering has drowned out any consideration of the even-keeled, common-sense policies we need to rebuild the middle class, make college more affordable, and make health care more accessible."
Congress is incapable of rebuilding the middle class so don't bother.
Since higher ed and healthcare markets are already distorted by obscene federal spending, the solution is not to double down, it is to get out of the way. The Total State already spends close to half of all health care dollars.
Further, it is tough to make health care more accessible when you add coercive demand without addressing supply. Congresswine cannot legislate reality.
Guido McGinty
11:26 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
"And there’s nothing reasonable about opposing basic workplace protections for all Americans or voting to end the Medicare guarantee,"
Medicare is already insolvent using any acceptable accounting method. The cash will run out in the next decade. It is the height of irresponsibility to ignore the numbers.
Guido McGinty
5:42 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
"Which numbers are being ignored?"
Start here:
http://brucekrasting.com/on-the-social-security-2012-report-to-congress/
http://brucekrasting.com/bernanke-my-goal-is-to-wreck-social-security/
McCloud
1:53 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Gridlock is free, what we just had costs us $5 Trillion.
RationalTht
8:14 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Mr. Schneider - maybe if Reid and the Democrats in the senate were not sitting on legislation just so they and Obama don't have to go on record, maybe things would get done. Why do you think they haven't passed a budget in 4+ years? Reid doesn't want any of the out of control spending to go on record.
Also, raising taxes on the "rich" just doesn't add up from a _math_ perspective. Even taking 100% from the rich would just be a few percent of the total overspending.