3 things that Congress needs to do?

[ss4699]

Congress will be back in session this week. Top-of-the-agenda items for us include:

• Stopping Washington from Sending America Over the Fiscal Cliff: Within a matter of weeks, the Bush-Obama tax cuts will expire, across-the-board defense and non-defense discretionary spending cuts are set to take effect, we will hit the debt ceiling, and dozens of new Obama regulations are likely to be unveiled. There is no more time to punt on leadership, and Tim Huelskamp, KS will continue to push his colleagues to work toward permanent solutions – not temporary fixes – that deal with the real problems in Washington: overspending and overregulation.
• Food Stamps (Farm Bill): Even though only 20% of the Farm Bill goes toward actual agricultural programs (the other 80% goes toward nutrition and food stamp programs), I know that not having a Farm Bill finished is leaving some uncertainty for our farmers and ranchers.Tim Huelskamp, Kansas Senate, believes that we must target and transform the food stamp programs within the Farm Bill in order to provide some accountability to taxpayers as well as to just improve the programs for those who truly need it.
• Holding the VA Accountable: In the last three months, independent investigative research into excessive and wasteful spending at the VA. It was learn that VA Committee Chairman Miller that the Committee will hold additional hearings this year to get more answers about why VA spends so much money on exotic travel and luxurious conferences for government bureaucrats when there are so many homeless veterans and wounded warriors not getting the care that they need. You can read more about our investigation here.

What is your opinion?

[Guest123018-4]

The VA is a disgraced to our veterans. They are terrible in the way they treat them, they have far too many people that are employed that do little to nothing; they continue to employ more people yet still cannot make a dent in processing the veterans claims.
They need to fire about half of them and if things don't improve fire the rest and turn it over to a private company to handle the claims.

[ss4699]

Originally Posted by The2Dogs

The VA is a disgraced to our veterans......They need to fire about half of them and if things don't improve fire the rest and turn it over to a private company to handle the claims.

Well i WOULD VOTE FOR THAT DOG!

[Trey]

The food stamp program is no place near the housing program as far as I can see. That section 8 is the most fucked up of them all. But the ebt program is getting there, I went to eat seafood the other day and saw on the in big letters they take ebt! It's like 17 bucks for fish and shrimp dinner at the place. They need to take that shit back to the government cheese days, have a section in the store with stuff you can get for free instead of letting you get whatever. If I get steak for free why work to get it? Still I wouldn't let folks starve but I wouldn't let them live on the same level as working folks.

[markroxny]

1. Taxes (raise on the rich)
2. Immigration Reform
3. Cut spending.

[ss4699]

thanks for the comments gents.