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The only way Congress can begin to avert our impending train wreck with national debt is to raise taxes and cut expenditures. And the only way those things can occur is for Congress to begin voting by secret ballot on all budget-reduction and tax-increase bills, eliminating the influence of special interest groups.
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For those of you who don't understand trickle-down economics: If you lower taxes on the rich, they hire people to work for them, thus spurring the middle class. That would mean if you raise taxes on the rich they will lay off the middle class, which leaves you unemployed. You can thank "Obamanomics" for your unemployment check now.
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The reason many Republicans do not support education and health care is that they want uneducated, destitute people for plenty of cheap labor.
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If there is a revolution, there is no doubt Sarah Palin will be running — along with all the other money-grubbing, power-mad, me-firsters who have brought America to the brink of ruin.
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Sarah Palin loves our country. She always puts our country up, not down.
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I intend to fully cooperate with the 2010 census, because I'm not as scared of government as I am of businesses and individuals who misuse information.
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Wouldn't a state-owned casino generate a great deal more revenue for the state than a privately owned dog track or an American Indian casino owned by an out-of-state tribe? Why is anything but a state-owned casino even better considered?
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If you really hate conservative talk shows and you can't force yourself to quit listening to them, then try to get elected and make them illegal.
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To the self-professed "old" person who doesn't believe in global warming: It is not your age that makes you skeptical, it's your ignorance. Check the research. Global warming is here and now.
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Sedgwick County Commissioner Kelly Parks' e-mail reply, "Screw you," and Commissioner Gwen Welshimer's defense of Parks are good examples of why a lot of people don't have much respect for government officials. Parks and Welshimer are two peas from the same arrogant pod.
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We need more snow. It's a lot cheaper when the government is closed.
