Gov. John Kitzhaber's Driver Card bill speech at the Oregon state Capitol in Salem, May 1, 2013.
U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin, majority whip, and Oregon's Jeff Merkley join KATU's political reporter Patrick Preston on "Your Voice, Your Vote" Sunday, April 7, 2013 to discuss gun legislation, immigration reform and President Barack Obama's new budget. Click on the "Play Video" button to watch the show.
How do you justify taxing Americans and using the money to provide corporate welfare to wind farm companies from other countries who create a few American jobs that taxpayers pay millions of dollars each to create? Have you ever heard of the concepts "Balanced Budget" and "Deficite Reduction"?  You have displayed crony capitalism at it's finest. Shame on you for calling yourself a republican.
There is no plan to save this country. We will SPEND more this year. We have to - that is how Obama's government is intentional "set up". Â And that is how Americans like it. Unjustifiably. Unaccountably too.Â
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In days previous, entitlement wise - at the time you FORCE more entitlements upon the people you had to SHOW THE MONEY in regard to where you were absolutely going to cut the operating budget of the government in order to accommodate adding in more and more and more. We, the people witnessed Pelosi and Obama in 2009 not pursue a danged bit of that - but both LEADERS passed it all along to us nonetheless. While they were OVERSPENDING a trillion dollars in compounded taxes on "stimulating" something or another - that will be ADDED to tax payers tab for decades to come.Â
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How in the heck - and why in the heck - did any Americans vote to re-elect Obama - knowing in the past four years he never addressed the fiscal cliff, never produced a singular sustainable OPERATING BUDGET for our nation, and our President Obama - never, ever demanded congress ramp back their pork and their MISAPPROPRIATIONS either. Just called "some"of them the enemy - when really and truly - wasn't Obama for the past four years - all of our WORST ENEMY?Â
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So now Obama and Schrader and Walden - have a "plan"? Come on...
We will spend over 800 Billion Dollars on the National Debt this year. I gave Congressman Schrader a plan that would eliminate the National debt without raising taxes or cutting spending. He tells me he has sent it to the Congressional Budget Committee but they have done nothing with it during the campaigning period. He also told me he would try to bring it to the surface after the elections were over. They are now over and someone from the media should ask him what he is doing about it. With the National Debt being resolved the economy would suddenly gain so much strength that it would raise enough revenue to solve the problems. My name is Roger Tracey. I can be reached at (503) 801-2794.
 @Roger Tracey If your plan is so great that is will solve our debt, why don't you publish it here?