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On the article Police Arrest Man in Connection with Recent Burglaries
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On the article Come To Patch’s Presidential Debate Viewing Party
Jim Davis
2:57 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012
I agree completely with you. However until the people demand better things won't change. I don't see a third party as viable, but instead it will require an electorate that is willing to think and learn the magnitude of the fiscal problem we face. Perhaps it will take becoming another Greece, but until the run of the mill citizen gets jolted out of his/her complacent ( or gimmie) attitude nothing is going to improve. I hate to sound so negative, but until people can get beyond their party and think for the National good...................
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On the article Come To Patch’s Presidential Debate Viewing Party
Jim Davis
11:34 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012
ReplyThe incumbents have proven they can't. The time has come for them to be replaced, all of them.
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On the article Come To Patch’s Presidential Debate Viewing Party
Jim Davis
5:22 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012
By having representatives that represent the electorate. But on the other hand we keep reelecting them so I guess we get what we deserve.
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On the article Come To Patch’s Presidential Debate Viewing Party
Jim Davis
1:26 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012
ReplyRepresentative Democracy Agreed, replace every serving incumbent. At least with fresh blood we can start fresh without all the self serving prostitutes now working in Capital Hill.
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On the Blog Post Dan Bongino—So how do we fix it?
Jim Davis
12:56 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012
ReplyI would add one more to the above. Change the campaign contribution laws to read "Candidates for political office can only accept contributions from living American citizens living in the District they represent. Each individual contribution of any size to be reported on a public web site within one week." I would happily see corporations, PACs, unions, lobbyists, bundlers and the like out of the picture.
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On the article POLL: Who Should Pay Legal Fees for County Exec?
Jim Davis
11:05 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012
ReplyResponding to the original question. If he is found guilty in court, or pleads guilty, he should reimburse the county for every penny. That said he has not even had his day in court so please don't convict him before his trials. I recognize that there are people who despise him as well as those who love him, but if we insist on convicting elected leaders in the press without any legal process we will end up with anarchy and if Congress is any sort of guide we seem to be well on the way.
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On the Blog Post Pollster: Majority of Maryland Voters Support DREAM Act
Jim Davis
9:00 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
ReplyBeing from out of State isn't cheap, I personally do not want to subsidize breaking the law.
From the UMD web site
Estimated Costs Resident Non-resident
Annual tuition and mandatory fees* $8,909 $27,288
http://www.admissions.umd.edu/costs/
Anne Arundel Community College
Tuition* per credit hour:
Anne Arundel County resident $97
Residents of other Maryland counties $186
Residents of other Maryland counties in courses for a designated Statewide or Health Manpower Shortage Program** $97
Out-of-State resident, foreign student $330 -
On the article Blue State Politics: Are You Better Off?
Jim Davis
11:20 pm on Monday, September 17, 2012
Kathy The short answer to your question is unfortunately YES Way too many of them. What people forget the President can promise, pontificate and offer anything he wants to. Congress has to provide him with the money to do it and since the last two years of the Bush administration Congress has not passed an actual budget - they have only passed Continuing Resolutions. Now for the bad part. Special Trust Funds are required to deposit all their excess funds with the Treasury where they are given Treasury Bonds. Then Congress, with the Presidents blessing spends the deposited money on other programs praying that they will be out of office when the Fund Managers are ready to cash in their Treasury Bonds. We as a Country have gotten to the point that the Fund Managers are going to have to start cashing in their Bonds, but Congress has already spent it on other things like Defense, Health Care, Infrastructure, Foreign Aid, Space, Welfare - the list goes on and on. This leaves Congress with the problem of having to cut deeply into their favorite programs as well as those programs that are absolutely necessary to run the country and/or raise taxes to cover the shortfall. Neither choice is going to be pretty or help with the recovery.
As to who is to blame, it is us. We have kept reelecting the same people to Congress and allowed them to spend us deeper and deeper into debt every year. I don't have a magic solution, but if we don't learn restraint it will be painful. -
On the article Blue State Politics: Are You Better Off?
Jim Davis
9:09 am on Monday, September 17, 2012
ReplyPersonally, yes. But that is a qualified yes. With the state of the economy and the absolute inability of our elected political leadership at both the State and Federal levels to even talk to each other, much less work to solve the financial situation they have gotten us into I fear we are heading the way of Greece, Spain and Portugal. They have "borrowed and spent" Social Security and Medicare to the point that the only way the government can meet it's mandated "Full Faith and Credit" obligations will be to either cut these programs, along with most others, drastically and raise taxes to the point of stagnating our economy. Maryland hasn't done any better in controlling itself. We, the people need to fire the professionals and return government to the people. Note this is not "Tea Party", it is common sense.
Jim Davis
10:34 am on Monday, October 15, 2012
Can you post a copy of his mug shot?