In Utah, there’s a State Senator who thinks that he’s being brave by daring to insult people. Senator Chris Buttars made public statements calling homosexual people, “They’re probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of.”
Homosexuality is a greater threat to America than the economic crisis? That’s absurd.
The greatest threat to America that I can think of is ignorance of the Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees – after all, it’s the Constitution that makes the USA the USA.
The Human Rights Campaign is organizing an effort to talk back to State Senator Buttars, and let him know that his bizarre beliefs are not shared by many Americans.
Economic Stimulus. H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, passed 385-35 on January 29, 2008 (Roll Call 25). It would provide about $150 billion in economic stimulus, including $101.1 billion in direct payments of rebate checks (typically $600) to most taxpayers in 2008 and temporary tax breaks for businesses. Creating money out of thin air and then spending the newly created money cannot improve the economy, at least not in the long term. (If it could, why not create even more money for rebates and make every American a millionaire?) The stimulus has no offset and thus increases the federal deficit by the amount of the stimulus because the government must borrow the rebate money. A realistic long-term stimulus can only be achieved by lowering taxes through less government and by reducing regulatory burdens.Marsha Blackburn voted FOR this bill.(Source: The New American – July 21, 2008)
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
She is no conservative.