Normally religious people oppose gambling, but when it comes to our retirement, Rep. Todd Tiahrt wants us all to retire loss Vegas style. Privatizing Social Security could cost a lot of people their retirement, especially since the stock market has been dropping like a rock lately. Many of us have already lost money invested in 401Ks. His views were made public in The Wichita Eagles’ "We Blog" section, Aug. 28, 2005. Do we really want to gamble with our retirement?
But Tiahrt is a dedicated supporter of President George Bush. They both spent their college days at parties, used illegal drugs (Tiahrt admitted once on TV he smoked pot, but froze and refused to answer a question when asked if he had used LSD.)
They are also both idiots who have bungled their use of their higher office jobs and have done virtually nothing for this country.
It’s no wonder he supports the president.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Friday, August 12, 2005
Bank PACs bought Tiahrt a YES on restricting bankruptcy rules
The Dunce
Rep. Todd Tiahrt Voted YES on the new restricting bankruptcy rules. The vote to pass the bill that would require debtors who are able to pay back $10,000 or 25 percent of their debts over five years to file under Chapter 13, rather then seeking to discharge their debts under Chapter 7. Chapter 13, calls for a reorganization of debts under a repayment plan. A Debtor would be restricted, in this bill, to a total exemption of $125,000 in home equity for residences bought within 40 months of a bankruptcy filing. The bill also would establish permanent and retroactive Chapter 12 bankruptcy relief for farmers.
The new bankruptcy law is an example of the pure corruption of our congress. After an eight-year multimillion dollar lobbying effort by financial-industry giants, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed their heinous "Debt Slavery" Bankruptcy Bill (S. 256/H.R. 685) by a lopsided 302-126 vote. Members of the House briefly debated this important matter before they voted. However, the speeches on both sides tended to be surprisingly simplistic.
It doesn’t take long to see what motivated Tiahrt’s vote. Just look at the banking PAC that bought his vote.
AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PAC (BANKPAC)
Amounts and dates:
08/20/19970=1000.00
08/13/1998=1000.00
09/16/1998=500.00
06/11/1999=500.00
09/14/1999=500.00
09/07/2000=2000.00
03/27/2001=1000.00
02/05/2002=1000.00
03/29/2002=1000.00
06/25/2002=2000.00
09/18/2002=1000.00
03/25/2003=1000.00
06/05/2003=2000.00
03/16/2004=1000.00
05/03/2004=1000.00
06/09/2004=1000.00
09/10/2004=4000.00
02/25/2005=1000.00
05/19/2005=2000.00
Monday, August 01, 2005
Tiahrt wants to re-write history
Gov. George W. Glick
Attempts to revise history are being made by such US congress persons as Kansas Republican congressman Todd Tiahrt. All images of gay gatherings at national sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from
videotapes that have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 according to a civil service group. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said that the directive came from National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy. Murphy is said to have been concerned about pictures in the video that showed same-sex couples kissing and holding hands after conservative groups complained.
In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators though these events did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy called a "more balanced" version. So how are we supposed to teach proper history to students when our elected representatives are rewriting it.
Another example is Tiahrt’s push to switch, in the Washington DC hall of statues, from George W. Glick, a forgotten figure in 19th-century Kansas politics, to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in Europe from Abilene, Kan. His only ties to Kanas was that he grew up in Abilene. He never returned to Kansas.“Every Kansan that I brought here had the same problem,” said Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), who spearheaded the effort to replace the statues. “They didn’t understand who these people were.”But Glick was no political slouch. A lawyer, farmer and statesman, he fought for the Union in the Civil War and was elected governor of Kansas as a Democrat.
So according to Tiahrt, if you don’t understand history, just re-write it.
Attempts to revise history are being made by such US congress persons as Kansas Republican congressman Todd Tiahrt. All images of gay gatherings at national sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from
videotapes that have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 according to a civil service group. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said that the directive came from National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy. Murphy is said to have been concerned about pictures in the video that showed same-sex couples kissing and holding hands after conservative groups complained.
In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators though these events did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy called a "more balanced" version. So how are we supposed to teach proper history to students when our elected representatives are rewriting it.
Another example is Tiahrt’s push to switch, in the Washington DC hall of statues, from George W. Glick, a forgotten figure in 19th-century Kansas politics, to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in Europe from Abilene, Kan. His only ties to Kanas was that he grew up in Abilene. He never returned to Kansas.“Every Kansan that I brought here had the same problem,” said Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), who spearheaded the effort to replace the statues. “They didn’t understand who these people were.”But Glick was no political slouch. A lawyer, farmer and statesman, he fought for the Union in the Civil War and was elected governor of Kansas as a Democrat.
So according to Tiahrt, if you don’t understand history, just re-write it.
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