Another meeting with Goodlatte

By: kestrel9000
Published On: 12/7/2007 1:28:00 PM

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Separated at birth?


From the blog Blue Country Magic comes an unsurprisingly infuriating account of a telephone town hall meeting with SurgeBob....

I shall paraphrase some of what was said. (And before I am berated and accused of being a leftist liberal or whatever, I will come clean and say I have voted for this congressman in the past. That was when he said he would only serve two terms. Once he broke his word, he lost my vote forever.)

From Lexington: a state employee wondered how to keep the cost of health care from eating up her retirement benefits.

Goodlatte's answer? Not my problem, call your state representative.


More on the jump.....
From Fincastle: How about the federal government mandating a Living Wage (as opposed to a minimum wage) so people can actually afford to live?

Goodlatte's answer: Oh, it's a Free Enterprise System (he mentioned "Free Enterprise System" several times) and we don't want to interfere with *that*. It's bad enough we have a minimum wage. It's "damaging to our economy"

Goodlatte segued here into a one-way conversation about the Child Health Insurance program and how terrible the Democrats are for wanting to essentially raise the poverty line from barely able to eat to possibly making the house payment.

From Troutville: This poor man is a Veteran who has found that increased surcharges on his medicines and the payments he must make to the specialists he needs for heart and lung conditions are too much for him. He cannot afford his medicine anymore. I had no idea that the VA system was so broken, but apparently it's been as mismanaged as the rest of the government in the last seven years.

Goodlatte's answer: Check out the new low prices for drugs at Walmart.

What a sad hour it was. My heart broke for all of those poor people with health problems. I wanted to reach out and hug them all.

Goodlatte just sends them to Walmart.

The reasons to send SurgeBob back to the private sector just keep piling up........
Check it out, but don't say I didn't warn you if your head explodes.

Comments



More on Goodlatte (Paul4Sam08 - 12/7/2007 8:56:07 PM)

But wow...implying that the minimum wage is hurting the U.S. economy? It's one thing to be against a minimum wage raise...but to be against the minimum wage altogether?? To imply that is just...wow.

Oh, and click here for more info on our friend Bob.



What is up with Goodlatte? (roy for sam - 12/7/2007 9:27:55 PM)
This article just makes me furious. The minimum wage helps so many people achieve a basic standard of living. The fact that ol' Bobby Boy is against the very concept of the minimum wage just blows my mind. Also, Bob just introduced a bill cracking down on internet gambling. Pretty good, right? Not so. In the bill he included a provision to protect horseracing from his own bill. Why would he do this? Perhaps it is because he has accepted $37,000 in donations from the National Horseracing Association since 2003. It's seems to me that it is high time to get Bob out of office so that he can go hang out at the track with his horseracing buddies. Everyone should go to www.bobvotes.com to see some of Bob's other amazing votes.


bobvotes.com (kestrel9000 - 12/8/2007 3:57:02 AM)
is 404 - I'll try again later.
In the meantime, for the lowdown on SurgeBob Squarehead's horsin' around, go here.


OOO..you make typo...... (kestrel9000 - 12/8/2007 4:02:06 AM)
It's bobsvotes.com.
Ah, thanks for that, however. We'll spread that one far and wide.


Sam Rasoul (tlchaplin - 12/7/2007 10:00:54 PM)
Sam Rasoul will care more about the people and vote in the interest of his district.