Comments on: Coburn: “It makes me want to vomit.” http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colburn-makes-me-want-to-vomit Right-Wing Red Meat for the Soul Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: M.R.JOYCE http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-19619 M.R.JOYCE Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:52:58 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-19619 Conservatives have a key tool in their arsenal which they should use to hinder the liberals both democrats and RHINOS. It is called the Phillibuster.Use it and bring publicity to the issues. Read the Bible during it. Our country was founded on it and God promises His word will not go void. God keeps His promises unlike many politicians! Conservatives need to act and reclaim their party! Conservatives have a key tool in their arsenal which they should use to hinder the liberals both democrats and RHINOS. It is called the Phillibuster.Use it and bring publicity to the issues. Read the Bible during it. Our country was founded on it and God promises His word will not go void. God keeps His promises unlike many politicians! Conservatives need to act and reclaim their party!

]]> By: R.D. Walker http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-13473 R.D. Walker Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:19:30 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-13473 Midwesterner: Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I don't disagree but I would perhaps argue that rationally caring for others is in our self-interest. Midwesterner: Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I don’t disagree but I would perhaps argue that rationally caring for others is in our self-interest.

]]> By: Midwesterner http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-13472 Midwesterner Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:15:05 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-13472 Dear R.D. Walker, I am not questioning the belief in SELF INTEREST and all of the good that comes from it. In fact I agree with all of what you have said on May 15th, 2009 in regards to self interest. What I am attempting to do is to expand on the idea.The vast majority of the times self-interest is good and necessary. But like all good and wonderful things it has its down and negative side, as well, which people must be wary of. I say that because there are those times when being too focused on one's own self-interests puts the individual's welfare in a good position and that of the collective whole in a bad one. The knowledge of this is what had motivated past cultures to build in a safegaurd for this. In these cultures the individual's needs were addressed and honored, but never at the expense of the entire community. Thus when community issues seemed to be playing a more important and bigger role, which affected the individuals, community problems were addressed and attended to with a quick return to that of the individuals. And they did this because they realized that if the community at large failed or went down the tubes, the individuals followed shortly afterwards. Everything is connected and inter-related. One small pebble of action by one person produces rings of influence that pervades the whole pond. Thus as individuals we cannot act in isolation with our entire focus being solely on ourselves at all times. If we become too SELF-ABSORBED we run the risk of ignoring the BIG PICTURE and how that can boomerang back upon ourselves later on down the line. We don't have to stop or end our philosophy about the goodness of selfishness or self-interest as you now call it. We just have to expand it a bit. We can be more inclusive, and still demand that responsibleness and hard work is required of all. We can demand that we not be burdened with those who diminish the quality of our lives. And I've been doing that because I'm so fed up with all of the slackers in our society who have no idea what rugged individualism is. They're like children that never grow up! Yet I also know that my reaction to the slackers could make the pendulum move to the opposite extreme as well. There can be a fine line between self-interest and self-absorbed selfishness that is easily crossed without me even knowing that I've done it. And evidently the therapists have been sounding the alarm on how NARCISSISM has ballooned in recent decades, which echoes my own concerns. And maybe this is what has motivated you to change your usual use of the word of 'selfishness' to the more benign one of 'self-interest' as of late. No one wants to be seen in that light. But sometimes the minor change in terms is just that I.e. a replacement of one word for another, while the underlying way of operating gives the field of psychology just cause for concern. It's easy to mask one's real ulterior motives with a little tweaking of the spoken word, in order to gain more acceptance and agreement.I'd rather see how the person lives his life and whether his sense of self ends at the tip of his nose or is larger than that.I want him to take care of himself all the way to the tip of his nose but not at my expense. I want him to factor in beyond his own skin my rights and freedoms as well, which is pretty much what other countries want as well from Americans but don't feel at times that they are getting. They don't call us "The Ugly American" for nothing. And I've seen the condescending and arrogant and self-centeredness first hand that they speak of when out traveling.They act as if the whole world should revolve around them. And it's embarrassing to see my fellow countrymen act that way. And in the final analysis it has cost our self-interest big time. Dear R.D. Walker, I am not questioning the belief in SELF INTEREST and all of the good that comes from it. In fact I agree with all of what you have said on May 15th, 2009 in regards to self interest. What I am attempting to do is to expand on the idea.The vast majority of the times self-interest is good and necessary. But like all good and wonderful things it has its down and negative side, as well, which people must be wary of. I say that because there are those times when being too focused on one’s own self-interests puts the individual’s welfare in a good position and that of the collective whole in a bad one. The knowledge of this is what had motivated past cultures to build in a safegaurd for this. In these cultures the individual’s needs were addressed and honored, but never at the expense of the entire community. Thus when community issues seemed to be playing a more important and bigger role, which affected the individuals, community problems were addressed and attended to with a quick return to that of the individuals. And they did this because they realized that if the community at large failed or went down the tubes, the individuals followed shortly afterwards. Everything is connected and inter-related. One small pebble of action by one person produces rings of influence that pervades the whole pond. Thus as individuals we cannot act in isolation with our entire focus being solely on ourselves at all times. If we become too SELF-ABSORBED we run the risk of ignoring the BIG PICTURE and how that can boomerang back upon ourselves later on down the line. We don’t have to stop or end our philosophy about the goodness of selfishness or self-interest as you now call it. We just have to expand it a bit. We can be more inclusive, and still demand that responsibleness and hard work is required of all. We can demand that we not be burdened with those who diminish the quality of our lives. And I’ve been doing that because I’m so fed up with all of the slackers in our society who have no idea what rugged individualism is. They’re like children that never grow up! Yet I also know that my reaction to the slackers could make the pendulum move to the opposite extreme as well. There can be a fine line between self-interest and self-absorbed selfishness that is easily crossed without me even knowing that I’ve done it. And evidently the therapists have been sounding the alarm on how NARCISSISM has ballooned in recent decades, which echoes my own concerns. And maybe this is what has motivated you to change your usual use of the word of ‘selfishness’ to the more benign one of ‘self-interest’ as of late. No one wants to be seen in that light. But sometimes the minor change in terms is just that I.e. a replacement of one word for another, while the underlying way of operating gives the field of psychology just cause for concern. It’s easy to mask one’s real ulterior motives with a little tweaking of the spoken word, in order to gain more acceptance and agreement.I’d rather see how the person lives his life and whether his sense of self ends at the tip of his nose or is larger than that.I want him to take care of himself all the way to the tip of his nose but not at my expense. I want him to factor in beyond his own skin my rights and freedoms as well, which is pretty much what other countries want as well from Americans but don’t feel at times that they are getting. They don’t call us “The Ugly American” for nothing. And I’ve seen the condescending and arrogant and self-centeredness first hand that they speak of when out traveling.They act as if the whole world should revolve around them. And it’s embarrassing to see my fellow countrymen act that way. And in the final analysis it has cost our self-interest big time.

]]> By: M http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-13175 M Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:31:59 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-13175 I am tired of all this crap- get it right- dont spend more than we have to spend. I am feeling we the people have no voice anymore. If any elected officials read this- take note- you work for us do mwhat we elected you to do- be responcible to our country not yourselves. I am tired of all this crap- get it right- dont spend more than we have to spend. I am feeling we the people have no voice anymore. If any elected officials read this- take note- you work for us do mwhat we elected you to do- be responcible to our country not yourselves.

]]> By: Lloyd L. Wilson http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12542 Lloyd L. Wilson Wed, 20 May 2009 02:43:03 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12542 It is time for tar and feathers! It is time for tar and feathers!

]]> By: James http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12440 James Sat, 16 May 2009 15:34:21 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12440 Thanks for the lexical distinction, R.D. Many definitions for "selfish" I found included phrases such as "lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others." Clearly "self interest" is the desired term. Self interest broadly is having a stake in, and tending to your own well being, your work, your immediate environment, and those you care about; that which you value. As Milt Friedman said "The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A Thanks for the lexical distinction, R.D.
Many definitions for “selfish” I found included phrases such as “lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others.”
Clearly “self interest” is the desired term. Self interest broadly is having a stake in, and tending to your own well being, your work, your immediate environment, and those you care about; that which you value.

As Milt Friedman said “The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

]]> By: R.D. Walker http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12417 R.D. Walker Fri, 15 May 2009 16:38:18 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12417 Self-interest is a universal human attribute. The lack of self-interest is a kind of insanity that, at its logical extreme, results in suicide. No society can exist without self-interested individuals. Self-interest is not a vice; it is a virtue. In fact, self-interest is a responsibility. You are responsible to look after yourself. You are responsible for making your own way in the world and not becoming a burden to others. Without self-interest, society collapses. Self-interest is the foundation of civilization. Understanding that humans act in their self-interest is necessary to understand economics, politics and society. Self-interest drives the fulfillment of wants and needs and is the engine of the economy. In the long run, all work is based on self-interest. People will not work as hard for others as they will for their own interests. Liberals are unable to comprehend this basic truth regarding the human condition. Every increment taxes are raised results in an incremental decrease in effort put forth. Less effort means less wealth created which means, at some point, raising taxes decreases government revenue. Conversely, at some point decreasing taxes drives self-interested work and increases government revenues. Liberals fervently believe that self-interest isn’t a natural human state but is a learned trait. They believe that institutions train people to be self-interested and, if institutions are changed, self-interest can be diminished or eliminated. At its logical extreme, this view of human nature leads to the gulag. I believe you are confusing self-interest with selfishness. You can never have too much self-interest. Sane, rational human beings always take their self-interest into account in everything they do. Selfishness, however, is not the same as self-interest. For example, self-interest is the desire to have enough to eat, clothing and shelter. Self-interest is why people start business and have families. Self-interest is why people worship God. Self-interest is why scientists create medical cures and why artists paint and why musicians write music. The desire to be a billionaire is not selfish. Selfishness is conscious theft. Selfishness is seizing the property and the fruits of the industry of others for your own use. Selfishness is robbing a liquor store. Selfishness is robbing Chrysler bondholders. Selfishness is stealing the life of an unborn child for purposes of convenience. Self-interest is a virtue that is the foundation of civilization. Every member of a society can be self-interested without the rights of any member of that society being oppressed. When you working in your self-interest, you do not diminish the quality of life of any of your neighbors. When you are robbed at gun point, a selfish thief is stealing the product of your self-interested efforts. When a murder kills a neighbor, he is selfishly stealing his neighbor’s self interest in remaining alive. Selfishness is the theft of the self-interests of another. Self-interest is matter, selfishness is the anti-matter that consumes it. Self-interest is good. In that selfishness destroys that good, it is evil. Stealing the wealth of Chrysler bondholders in order to transfer that wealth to political supporters is pure selfishness. The desire to retain assets which the bondholders purchased and have a legal right to is in their self-interest, but is not selfish in the slightest. Capitalism is self-interest and is virtuous. Socialism is the theft of the ability of people to practice self-interest and is therefore selfish and evil. Self-interest is a universal human attribute. The lack of self-interest is a kind of insanity that, at its logical extreme, results in suicide. No society can exist without self-interested individuals. Self-interest is not a vice; it is a virtue. In fact, self-interest is a responsibility. You are responsible to look after yourself. You are responsible for making your own way in the world and not becoming a burden to others. Without self-interest, society collapses. Self-interest is the foundation of civilization.

Understanding that humans act in their self-interest is necessary to understand economics, politics and society. Self-interest drives the fulfillment of wants and needs and is the engine of the economy. In the long run, all work is based on self-interest. People will not work as hard for others as they will for their own interests. Liberals are unable to comprehend this basic truth regarding the human condition. Every increment taxes are raised results in an incremental decrease in effort put forth. Less effort means less wealth created which means, at some point, raising taxes decreases government revenue. Conversely, at some point decreasing taxes drives self-interested work and increases government revenues.

Liberals fervently believe that self-interest isn’t a natural human state but is a learned trait. They believe that institutions train people to be self-interested and, if institutions are changed, self-interest can be diminished or eliminated. At its logical extreme, this view of human nature leads to the gulag.

I believe you are confusing self-interest with selfishness. You can never have too much self-interest. Sane, rational human beings always take their self-interest into account in everything they do. Selfishness, however, is not the same as self-interest.

For example, self-interest is the desire to have enough to eat, clothing and shelter. Self-interest is why people start business and have families. Self-interest is why people worship God. Self-interest is why scientists create medical cures and why artists paint and why musicians write music. The desire to be a billionaire is not selfish.

Selfishness is conscious theft. Selfishness is seizing the property and the fruits of the industry of others for your own use. Selfishness is robbing a liquor store. Selfishness is robbing Chrysler bondholders. Selfishness is stealing the life of an unborn child for purposes of convenience.

Self-interest is a virtue that is the foundation of civilization. Every member of a society can be self-interested without the rights of any member of that society being oppressed. When you working in your self-interest, you do not diminish the quality of life of any of your neighbors.

When you are robbed at gun point, a selfish thief is stealing the product of your self-interested efforts. When a murder kills a neighbor, he is selfishly stealing his neighbor’s self interest in remaining alive. Selfishness is the theft of the self-interests of another. Self-interest is matter, selfishness is the anti-matter that consumes it. Self-interest is good. In that selfishness destroys that good, it is evil.

Stealing the wealth of Chrysler bondholders in order to transfer that wealth to political supporters is pure selfishness. The desire to retain assets which the bondholders purchased and have a legal right to is in their self-interest, but is not selfish in the slightest. Capitalism is self-interest and is virtuous. Socialism is the theft of the ability of people to practice self-interest and is therefore selfish and evil.

]]> By: McLaren http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12411 McLaren Fri, 15 May 2009 15:12:14 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12411 As Americans, we are some of the most generous and giving people on Earth. It's the issue of having a gun put to our heads to pay taxes to bail out GM and AIG that irks many of us. Liberal pro-choicers say "Keep your morality off my body." Well, hello liberals, keep your morality off my wallet. As Americans, we are some of the most generous and giving people on Earth. It’s the issue of having a gun put to our heads to pay taxes to bail out GM and AIG that irks many of us.

Liberal pro-choicers say “Keep your morality off my body.”

Well, hello liberals, keep your morality off my wallet.

]]> By: James http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12410 James Fri, 15 May 2009 15:00:11 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12410 Too much selfishness is not the problem. The problem is government has not decoupled, but reversed consequences of reality from actions. Productive behavior is punished by taxation. Failure is rewarded using the transferred wealth. This is worse than an engineering system running open loop. Polarity of the feedback signal has been reversed. Miswired systems usually destroy themselves. Too much selfishness is not the problem. The problem is government has not decoupled, but reversed consequences of reality from actions. Productive behavior is punished by taxation. Failure is rewarded using the transferred wealth.

This is worse than an engineering system running open loop. Polarity of the feedback signal has been reversed. Miswired systems usually destroy themselves.

]]> By: Midwesterner http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12407 Midwesterner Fri, 15 May 2009 14:17:55 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12407 (finishing the above comments after being cut off accidentally.) ........."They believed in survival but acted not in ISOLATION"......... from all other living things, as if they were the only species or person on the earth. There was a time to COMPETE and a time to COOPERATE, a time to think of themselves and a time to think of others. Yet presently, mankind and Americans in particular are at the extreme and competitive end of the competition/cooperation spectrum. We act as if the rest of the world and other living things don't exist. Like Primadonnas we demand that the whole world should revolve around us exclusively.We ignore the needs of others both in this country and throughout the world. And it is that kind of selfishness that other countries so resent. It's also what fuels our massive need to sue each other whose lawsuits only serve to clog up our courts. Our "US VERSUS THEM" mentality amongst ourselves as promoted by this Ayn Rand philosophy has created great DISTRUST of our fellow Americans. And we relegate ourselves within our home fortresses because of it,and then wonder why we feel so lonely, so detached, so alienated from each other. It is a sad, sad state of affairs. But it can be made WHOLE again. We can come back into BALANCE. We don't have to give up our Ayn Rand philosophy on the Virtues of Selfishness. We only need to COMPLETE THE PARADOX by adding more altruism and non-selfishness to the mix that already exists. (finishing the above comments after being cut off accidentally.)

………”They believed in survival but acted not in ISOLATION”………
from all other living things, as if they were the only species or person on the earth. There was a time to COMPETE and a time to COOPERATE, a time to think of themselves and a time to think of others.
Yet presently, mankind and Americans in particular are at the extreme and competitive end of the competition/cooperation spectrum. We act as if the rest of the world and other living things don’t exist. Like Primadonnas we demand that the whole world should revolve around us exclusively.We ignore the needs of others both in this country and throughout the world. And it is that kind of selfishness that other countries so resent. It’s also what fuels our massive need to sue each other whose lawsuits only serve to clog up our courts.
Our “US VERSUS THEM” mentality amongst ourselves as promoted by this Ayn Rand philosophy has created great DISTRUST of our fellow Americans. And we relegate ourselves within our home fortresses because of it,and then wonder why we feel so lonely, so detached, so alienated from each other. It is a sad, sad state of affairs.
But it can be made WHOLE again. We can come back into BALANCE. We don’t have to give up our Ayn Rand philosophy on the Virtues of Selfishness. We only need to COMPLETE THE PARADOX by adding more altruism and non-selfishness to the mix that already exists.

]]> By: Another Midwesterner http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12406 Another Midwesterner Fri, 15 May 2009 13:44:25 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12406 I totally agree with R.D. Walker, the creator of this website, that mankind has the innate or inborn trait of being self-serving. It has been a reasonable survival tool that has led to man's success. And if one looks around one sees it everywhere in the living world. Animals fight with other animals over territory to insure a plentiful supply of resources that keep their kind alive. Birds don't say, "Here, take my worm. I'll starve so that you may live" because such ALTRUISM does not keep their species from going extinct. Thus there is some "VIRTUE TO SELFISHNESS." But as animal behaviorists know there is a down side to this philosophy. And it rests at the other end of the discussion continuum. It is part and parcel of Mother Nature's PARADOXES that lie everywhere. And as paradoxes, opposing and contradictory points of view become just as valid in the world at large. Thus altruism and NON-SELFISHNESS is revealed as being equally right, good, and meritorius as selfishness is. Where do Americans fall on this line of opposite extremes?? If one looks at what has created our present ECONOMIC CRISIS it becomes very apparent that we lie way to the side of extreme selfishness and greed in this country. And I say that about all walks of life in America. We want everything now, and have no sense of delayed gratification when it comes to dead and inanimate material possessions. There is NO RESTRAINT on how far we'd go in order to get more and more "things" into our lives. We'd even sacrifice the future of our children just so that we can hoard one more non-living object in our lives. And our basements are bulging at the seams because of it. It is this LACK OF RESTRAINT that is reminescent of how PRIMITIVE MAN has acted when he gourged himself on some fresh kill. Yet it was appropriate then because a GLUTTONOUS or GREEDY APPETITE could help sustain humans through bad times of famine. But the things that modern man hoards and has gluttony for do not serve to feed his body nutritionally. Instead they are things meant to assauge, mitigate and lessen the psychological pain and stress that he feels over being modern man in today's society. It's a sort of ANTI-DEPRESSANT PILL for modern man. Rather than deal responsibly with the issues confronting him, he has fled to drugs and addictions as forms of distractions. Out of control "BUYING" of inanimate things is just one of those addictions. It is a symptom of a nuerotic species making its way to psychosis."Things" NUMB the mind. But the problems of America never go away. "LACK OF RESTRAINT" from the CAVE MAN ERA does not serve us well in present times. It is only serving to speed up the process of our final demise as a species. And to passively accept this is to be like one of the Jonestown Cult members, who willingly chose to end their lives rather than change that which no longer serves them well. It is time for Americans to EVOLVE. One doesn't have to stop looking after one's own self-interests in order to become bigger and better as a species. One just adds more to the mix. There can be a time to be self-serving and virtuously selfish and a time to be altruistic and non-selfish. But we need to move the pointer of who we are more to the MIDDLE of this paradox. We need to REBALANCE our psychological selves. As the saying goes: "There is a time and place for everything." Traditional Native Americans had known the need to evolve in this way. They understood the INTERCONNECTEDNESS of all living things, of which mankind was a part of. They believed in survival but acted not in ISOLATION I totally agree with R.D. Walker, the creator of this website, that mankind has the innate or inborn trait of being self-serving. It has been a reasonable survival tool that has led to man’s success. And if one looks around one sees it everywhere in the living world. Animals fight with other animals over territory to insure a plentiful supply of resources that keep their kind alive. Birds don’t say, “Here, take my worm. I’ll starve so that you may live” because such ALTRUISM does not keep their species from going extinct. Thus there is some “VIRTUE TO SELFISHNESS.”
But as animal behaviorists know there is a down side to this philosophy. And it rests at the other end of the discussion continuum. It is part and parcel of Mother Nature’s PARADOXES that lie everywhere. And as paradoxes, opposing and contradictory points of view become just as valid in the world at large. Thus altruism and NON-SELFISHNESS is revealed as being equally right, good, and meritorius as selfishness is.
Where do Americans fall on this line of opposite extremes?? If one looks at what has created our present ECONOMIC CRISIS it becomes very apparent that we lie way to the side of extreme selfishness and greed in this country. And I say that about all walks of life in America. We want everything now, and have no sense of delayed gratification when it comes to dead and inanimate material possessions. There is NO RESTRAINT on how far we’d go in order to get more and more “things” into our lives. We’d even sacrifice the future of our children just so that we can hoard one more non-living object in our lives. And our basements are bulging at the seams because of it.
It is this LACK OF RESTRAINT that is reminescent of how PRIMITIVE MAN has acted when he gourged himself on some fresh kill. Yet it was appropriate then because a GLUTTONOUS or GREEDY APPETITE could help sustain humans through bad times of famine. But the things that modern man hoards and has gluttony for do not serve to feed his body nutritionally. Instead they are things meant to assauge, mitigate and lessen the psychological pain and stress that he feels over being modern man in today’s society. It’s a sort of ANTI-DEPRESSANT PILL for modern man. Rather than deal responsibly with the issues confronting him, he has fled to drugs and addictions as forms of distractions. Out of control “BUYING” of inanimate things is just one of those addictions. It is a symptom of a nuerotic species making its way to psychosis.”Things” NUMB the mind. But the problems of America never go away.
“LACK OF RESTRAINT” from the CAVE MAN ERA does not serve us well in present times. It is only serving to speed up the process of our final demise as a species. And to passively accept this is to be like one of the Jonestown Cult members, who willingly chose to end their lives rather than change that which no longer serves them well.
It is time for Americans to EVOLVE. One doesn’t have to stop looking after one’s own self-interests in order to become bigger and better as a species. One just adds more to the mix. There can be a time to be self-serving and virtuously selfish and a time to be altruistic and non-selfish. But we need to move the pointer of who we are more to the MIDDLE of this paradox. We need to REBALANCE our psychological selves. As the saying goes: “There is a time and place for everything.”
Traditional Native Americans had known the need to evolve in this way. They understood the INTERCONNECTEDNESS of all living things, of which mankind was a part of. They believed in survival but acted not in ISOLATION

]]> By: R.D. Walker http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12204 R.D. Walker Fri, 08 May 2009 21:05:49 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12204 Too late Sue. It passed some time ago. Too late Sue. It passed some time ago.

]]> By: Sue Merriner http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12203 Sue Merriner Fri, 08 May 2009 20:57:31 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12203 Filibuster the doggone bill! Filibuster the doggone bill!

]]> By: Jim Daley http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12060 Jim Daley Tue, 05 May 2009 18:01:23 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12060 Why can't we elect a patriot? Someone that will stand up for American principles, put our country first?,Protect freedom of speech and individual rights for all people. The right to life and happness for all, including the unborn. We blame the politicians for having no courage, while we the people, have backbones of jelly. We have allowed our Government to over tax us, suppress our rights,intimidate us with the IRS, thousands of bad laws, many in violation of our Constitution. Senator Coburn is a Bright Light, a true caring, Patriotic American that stands up for his principles and America as the way it should be. I believe that he is trying to wake up the rest of us , but there is not enough of him. We need to get to the ballot box and send politicians to congress that have the best interest of the people and the country in mind and not, special interest groups, politicians and their individual fortunes. Why can’t we elect a patriot? Someone that will stand up for American principles, put our country first?,Protect freedom of speech and individual rights for all people.
The right to life and happness for all, including the unborn.
We blame the politicians for having no courage, while we the people, have backbones of jelly. We have allowed our Government to over tax us, suppress our rights,intimidate us with the IRS, thousands of bad laws, many in violation of our Constitution.
Senator Coburn is a Bright Light, a true caring, Patriotic American that stands up for his principles and America as the way it should be.
I believe that he is trying to wake up the rest of us , but there is not enough of him. We need to get to the ballot box and send politicians to congress that have the best interest of the people and the country in mind and not, special interest groups, politicians and their individual fortunes.

]]> By: Mad Brad http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12047 Mad Brad Tue, 05 May 2009 13:00:45 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12047 Hey Kenneth. I know some Slacks. Where are you from? Hey Kenneth. I know some Slacks. Where are you from?

]]> By: Kenneth Slack http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-12036 Kenneth Slack Tue, 05 May 2009 00:20:19 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-12036 It is my considered opinion that the only way any of the incumbents get the message, is to speak it LOUDLY that their terms in the senate and congress are over. Save but about 3 senators, the entire lot or these greedy SOB's should be thrown out of office in the next election cycle they are up for. I have NEVER seen such a moral disaster in my lifetime. God save America from these theives, cowards, traitors and liberal liars. It is my considered opinion that the only way any of the incumbents get the message, is to speak it LOUDLY that their terms in the senate and congress are over. Save but about 3 senators, the entire lot or these greedy SOB’s should be thrown out of office in the next election cycle they are up for. I have NEVER seen such a moral disaster in my lifetime. God save America from these theives, cowards, traitors and liberal liars.

]]> By: Neina http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-11902 Neina Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:04:18 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-11902 how much is a BILLION $$$$, how quickly can they add that high? sho does this addition? that word is bandied about like it's a very ordinary amount of money. damn scary to me I have to depend on my SS. I agree with the Senator. how much is a BILLION $$$$, how quickly can they add that high? sho does this addition? that word is bandied about like it’s a very ordinary amount of money. damn scary to me I have to depend on my SS.

I agree with the Senator.

]]> By: Sybil Martino http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109&cpage=3#comment-11820 Sybil Martino Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:09:30 +0000 http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=5109#comment-11820 We are headed for another revolution in this country. God help us. We are headed for another revolution in this country. God help us.

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