Sunday, March 1, 2015

MY LOCAL CONGRESSMAN IS PATHETIC


Sean Duffy voted twice on Friday February 27th on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. He voted not to fund the agency. One was for a 3 week extension of funding and the other was for 1 week additional funding. Mr. Duffy will claim he voted against the funding because he wants to defund the immigration executive order put in place by President Obama. Two things are wrong with his logic. First, he is trying to defund a organization that actually is suppose to protect the border along with protecting every person in the country from terrorists of any sort. Two, Mr. Duffy doesn't seem to have a problem with putting people out of work, and the ones who are required to be at work, to take away their pay, this coming from a guy who said he has trouble making ends meet with his Congressional salary of $174,000.00 a year plus benefits. He may be right about his salary, but he can join the rest of the real world who are also struggling. Since he is from the Republican party in Wisconsin who all seem to have no trouble hurting working families I am not sure why he thinks he deserves special treatment.

The people who are forced to work without pay if they want to keep their jobs may not be as observant or diligent in doing their jobs. If something happens while the agency isn't funded will Mr. Duffy take responsibility for his part in it?

Mr. Duffy has a history of defunding government. He had no problem shutting down the government a couple of years ago, he even voted not to raise the debt limit which would have caused the government to run out of money, which then would have had to stop or delay making payments to the military and to social security recipients. There is whole list of things that would happen. Most of these people don't have other income or money stashed away for a rainy day, even if that day is man made by uncaring and unfeeling politicians.

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