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H.R.5843 Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults
- Anonymous : I don't get it. Isn't Congress SUPPOSED to vote representing the people. If 70% of the people are in favor of decriminalizing personal, responsible cannabis use, then why does Congress vote against it? It seems to be the congress men and women are voting for what THEY believe rather than doing their job and voting how WE believe. To me that should be considered illegal. We don't vote them into office to make decisions for us, we vote them in to make stand up for what we believe in and should vote accordingly even if in disagreement with their personal opinions because that is how our government was designed. Again, anything other than that should be illegal and these congress people should be penalized and removed from office.
- stopthepuppetgov : I have a friend who was in school getting As n because of a break in next door the office came to his house for help getting information. the next thing you know he his being sent to jail like he was a harden criminal. Smoking cannabis never causes the violence or acts of crime(break in occurred after a party) and is good way to relax. Now he is kicked out of school and has trouble getting a good job. his only job is workin with actual harden criminals. This prohibition is very troubling because it turns decent citizens into criminals. The Government needs to stop giving the organized crime a way gain money(most of their money comes from the sale of cannabis) and causing violence in our streets. It is not the gov. job tell us no but rather protect our liberities. What is the point of the war on terror when the liberities we are fighting for are being denied by our own gov.
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S.J.Res.31 S.J.Res.31
- JLG : This bill clarifies our founding father's original intent in the Constitution and protects Americans from the 'anchor baby syndrome' that we are suffering from now. I strongly urge all who are concerned about the USA to write to their senators about this bill.
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H.R.5546 Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008
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S.2433 Global Poverty Act of 2007
- Anonymous : Obama can't get away from Blair's GDP tax that he created this legislation over - two hard core socialists.
- Anonymous : Right.
The agencies and employees aren't needed. Streamline the tax, and it is a tax, to a foreign government.
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H.R.808 Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act
- ABNU : This is a both a bad and stupid idea. No war has ever been stopped via "peace." The bad guys are bad guys because they don't understand anything other than violence. If this was a legitimate cause it would have been 'proven' effective at the state level. There are at least 5 major US cities that are extremely and viscously violent--not a single street gang has been disbanded via this program (re: Ms Green of "the peace alliance"). If you create this department, it'll be the first step to locking people up for bad attitudes… You might as well call it the department of re-education camps. Like other BS government programs, they'll target the low hanging fruit like road rage, or complaining about, well, anything. In their minds, calling a bad driver a jerk leads to nuclear war, and because they can't arrest the dictator of a foreign country the next best thing will be to haul your sorry butt to jail "for attitudes conducive to violence". These people are stoned out of their minds on idealism. Just say no.
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