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on Canary in the Economic Coal Mine

My economic situation s going downhill very quickly. I 'received' a favorable judgement fromSocial Security Disability back in June of this year, but have yet to receive my 'back-due' amount, as their supervisor said: We are waiting to see who wins the election before releasing those funds from the payment center. WHY should that Matter? He said "John McCan won't want us to pay the amount, and Barack Obama will want it paid immediately!" How insane! Meanwhile, I am falling behind on everything, and collection agencies are calling from 7:30 AM to 8:30 PM eery day of the week! I am getting less money from Oreon National Guard as well, because their available funds are drying up. YET the legislature and the Governor just got pay raise! WHY? I can hardly cover costs of getting to/from medical appointments, food and medicines, let alone car insurance, natural gas for heat, electric and phone bill and so on. What can be done?

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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on The GOP Parties On

This is why a separation of authorities should always exist!! If you are the head (IE: CEO) and you do the fundraising, and approve the percentage of 'overhead' for that fundraising, and then set your own recompense, you are doing exactly what we yell at corporate CEO's for doing: Pocketing big money while the company (group) flounders in red ink, and may decalre a for of Bankruptcy. All for personal gain and to heck what the people at the bottom do. No wonder the unions always vote Democrat, even though every setback they have received in recent years have come from Democratic leaders!

posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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on The GOP Parties On

When I ran for Governor of Oregon in 1994, my fiscally responsible platform took a backseat to the 'sexier' candidates for the Gubernatorial nomination who did little else than backbite one another. I found it reprehensible that Mr. Burkeman and Mr. (Denny) Smith because they were 'rich' candidates were allowed to give their views at Dorchester Conference while my talk was pushed further back until, "No time to hear from you". I was running a shoe-string campaign, was the only candidate on either party to visit the smaller communities of our state, and was considerably more conservative than the Republican front-runners. I publicly announced that I had returned a check from Big Tobacco as I felt that was not appropriate. Perhaps that was my flaw: Too Honest and too hard-working. I was working two jobs, volunteering as a member of US Army MARS and raising my three children and worried about real-world issues such as funding schools with stability, reducing the overhead costs of government and so on. Perhaps I would have been better served to publish a magazine similar to the "T&A Times" (Smith), or have known issues with former co-workers suing for sexual harrassment (Burkeman). I guess I wouldn't have received enough interest from the Statesman-Journal or the Oregonian to fit into the wishes of the party. I hope at some point that Republicans can return to the family core values in Oregon that we have in National politics.

posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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