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Debt limit now stands at 1.9 Trillion dollars

Raising The Debt Limit Is Unconscionable, To All But Liberals


By Jerry McConnell ——--February 5, 2010

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The governing parties of our Congress and Administration continue to prove to the public, many of whom just refuse to believe what they are seeing, that they care not in the least for the future of our country as long as they can continue to use their heavy advantages in vote counts.

Take for instance the House vote this week to increase the debt limit for our country by TWO TRILLION DOLLARS ($1.9 to be exact) on H.Resolution 1065, February 04, 2010 by a vote of 217 to 212. One of the skinniest margins imaginable when you consider that the liberals enjoy a 257 to 178 voting difference. To show how skinny this vote was; if just THREE liberals had defected to the sane and sensible side the final vote would have been 214 to 215 in favor of good common sense. But finding just 3 more Congressmen/women with good common sense is an impossible task in this version of our House of Representative. It also means that 40 Democrats abandoned the foolhardy liberals to show their disapproval of raising the total debt limit to OVER FOURTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS. Are they insane to put our country so far in debt that even the welfare rolls will suffer from a lack of financial support one day soon, and those unthinking, uncaring souls will suffer right along with the hard-pressed middle class of the United States? Not that the other Congressional body, the Senate, is in any way over-endowed with that scarce commodity, common sense; no, it isn’t. When that group voted on this same measure of increasing the debt limit, the Senate voted at the precise number for passage with not one vote to spare, 60 Liberals and 40 senators with common sense enough to know that this very heavy load of additional debt could and very well might break the back of the good old U.S. of A. And when this burden of debt is finally deposited squarely on the backs of those children now in the beginning grades of elementary schools, many of those fragile backs will be broken and un-mendable. What happens to the country then is too ghastly to even contemplate. The entire country will be one large mass of welfare recipients with no welfare to be shared. Mass poverty will be prevalent from border to border and sea to sea. Even the illegal aliens will not want to stay when there is nothing here for them to take, so they will repatriate themselves back to their homelands. (Proving that even some bad things have their good sides.) So where do we go from here, asks the American taxpayer? Onward to more spending, sayeth the liberals who could not possibly in any way, shape or form, defend their foolish and irresponsible vote for the further and more destructive dismantling of the country. How can any one person, let alone 215 and 60 in the two houses of Congress, justify laying such a debilitating burden of suffering on our children and grandchildren? It is unconscionable and those 275 liberal legislators should be soundly punished at the upcoming elections in November 2010. Not even ONE of those who voted to crush the will and spirit of our country should be allowed to serve ONE MORE DAY in government decision making. They should be fired with no chance of ever serving in such high office again and they should be summarily refused any retirement largesse beyond the money that they contributed with an interest rate at the same amount that those same Congress people voted to pay the people who depend on Social Security for their survival over the next three years. Interpretation: ZERO! And THE ONE who asked for and blueprinted the schemes for the financial failures of our country, THE ONE that distances himself from the group that must take the final action, should be downsized in 2012.

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Jerry McConnell——

Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.

Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.

 

He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.

 

McConnell’s e-book about Guadalcanal, “Our Survival was Open to the Gravest Doubts

 


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