Congress and the POTUS claim they have American's best interests at heart. Please put your money where your mouth is.

Congress and the POTUS claim They have American's best interests at heart. Please put your money where your mouth is.

The economy of the country is being held hostage by a few Congressmen, who have failed to do their jobs. Let them feel the pinch of their own folly. If they force a shutdown, they receive no salaries until the issue is resolved.

I am a retired pediatrician. I am worried about, and appalled by how many children have been killed and maimed (mentally and physically) by firearms. We have spent and continue to spend untold billions of dollars and other resources protecting ourselves from foreign invaders (Think 9/11) But we have been cowards in the face of the gun lobby, even though we ourselves kill ten times more of our own people yearly,with our own guns than one invader did once.. We are brave enough to defend ourselves against those who threaten us from the outside. Why have we been cowed by the gun lobby? Let's change that. Let's find the courage to stand up to the NRA and their ilk. Let's pass sensible gun laws to protect ourselves from ourselves, because, actually, people do kill people.

John Boehner and the Tea Party anarchists act like taxation and government are inherently bad. They are not – taxation is the price of civilization – and we must have government in order to have an orderly society: roads and schools and Social Security and Medicare and safe vehicles and clean air and clean water and safe food and much more. Instead of holding the country hostage, Boehner and the Tea Party gang need to get a heart transplant. Maybe if they had a heart they’d care about somebody besides themselves and the Koch brothers, the evil duo which provides most of the money for the Tea Party. They don’t care about the unproductive work our government workers had to do to prepare for the shutdown, the money that wasted, or about the inconvenience to millions of Americans. They don’t care if the pay which thousands of competent, dedicated government workers and their families depend on is delayed. They don’t even care if the shutdown derails our fragile economic recovery! Even if John Boehner and the Tea Party gang change their strategy and let the government re-open, they have plans to pull the same kind of shenanigan again in a couple of weeks, using the debt ceiling to once again hold the country hostage. After their Tea Party shutdown and shakedown is over and our government workers go back to work, Washington-watchers believe Boehner and the Tea Party extremists will even refuse to pay the workers for the time they were shut out by the shutdown. They don’t care about anybody but themselves and their selfish funders and, oh, trying to make Obama look bad. Let’s send them a clear message: “You shut the government down, so we will shut you out in the 2014 election. We have a memory like an elephant, and we’ll stampede you.”

In the event of a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, not knowing if or when they might get paid. They are powerless to change their fates. Members of Congress get paid in the event of a government shutdown — no matter what. Perhaps it's this lack of having skin in the game that encourages some members of Congress to be reckless and cavalier about their childish threats and ultimate misguided decisions to shutdown the government when they can't get their way. Simply put -- if Congressmen and women vote to close down the government, they shouldn't be paid while the government is closed. Members of Congress should have to bear the same responsibility for their decisions as those who are most affected by them.

Stop breaking families apart. Multiple US citizen children are being tortured by having their parents in jail for minimum crimes such as not having a license, or simply not being told they are able to get one in our home state.

It is about time our representatives work for the good of the entire country not just the ideological agendas of a conservative group.

Since October 1st, hundreds of thousands of middle-class federal employees have been furloughed due to irresponsible members of Congress who refuse to govern for the well-being of the American people. The GOP-controlled House of Representatives decided to shut down the government rather than pass a spending bill that funds the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.” Not only has the President’s signature healthcare law been upheld by the Supreme Court, but it was a major issue in the last presidential election when Republicans were soundly defeated. These Republican members of Congress -- including California’s own House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy -- are putting the extreme and ideological demands of a small minority over the health of the American economy. And now, federal employees, veterans, and hard-working families will be the ones that have to pay the price. That is unfair and morally reprehensible. Congress should take responsibility for their own inaction and lose their paychecks until they come to a resolution. Every day this drags on, the more damage it does to everyday Americans and our nation’s fragile economy.

To stop deal-making to pass poor legislation under the umbrella of another cause that may be more, or less, important to the public, and avoid contaminating the subject of one bill with another. Each bill deserves its own consideration for a vote, which cannot be accomplished when provisions of unrelated subjects are added.

I've watched time and time again an attempt in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal a law they know they don't have the votes to repeal; they have wasted valuable time and money that has kept them from doing the job they were sent to do. They have already cost us a downgrade in a perfect credit rating. What's next? A total return to 2008's financial disaster because they refuse to govern. Just like with a spoiled child, you can discipline them by taking away their undeserved benefits.

I’m an Arab American Muslim woman who’s been targeted by all kinds of hatecrimes since 1985! I’ve lost my fully paid Condo to the most corrupted previous A.G Dave Frohnmayer! After the Condominium Associated of River Island Estates put a lien on it.. I hired Bob Ackerman to take care of the Lien that was imposed on me by the River Island Estates. Ackerman, sent a letter to my nephew vilifying me, then forged my sister’s signature, hired Scarlett Lee from Barnhart Associates to sell our fully paid condo, that was marketed it- ‘$150,000.00 in 1998′ Now it worth ‘$350,000.000′ it’s on the Willamette River. Bob Ackerman only paid us back $42,000.00. It was Dave Frohnmayer who’d committed a fraud by forging my sister’s signature, getting my Condo with the cheapest price. It was sold $62,000.00. Then, they listed with the realtor’s, as it was sold $10,000.00 more $72,000.00 than actually was sold. It was listed on the web as a public record by $85,000.00 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/628-Wimbledon-Ct-Eugene-OR-97401/48458608_zpid/ HUD, ACLU, SPLC, OSB, NAACP, BOLI, the previous A.G. Hardy Myers, with the two senators Wyden, Smith, and Congressman DeFazio And the unscrupulous officials of Lane County are complicit with Frohnmayer! Frohnmayer is partner with Harrang law firm which is part of the County A.D. and the City attorney too! Doug Harcleroad A.D. trapped me in a criminal record for more than 10 years. Frohnmayer got me fired form my teaching job at the UO, blocked me from getting hired any where. in 2005 I was hired to teach at OSU. After only two weeks I was fired because one of the UO staff know about me working at Women Studies! we have lost the most honorable decent John Kroger A.G. because of Frohnmayer!! We also need to hold Lane County government who are complicit with Dave Frohnmayer the previous A.G. Dave Frohnmayer has committed a crime of fraud, & exploitation, with the help the bank robber with a briefcase Bob Ackerman. Ackerman hired Scarlett Lee from Barnhart Associates to sell our fully paid Condominium that was put on lean. They forged my sister’s signature, after Ackerman sent a letter to my nephew vilifying me! The Condo was marketed $150,000.00 in 1997, now it worth $350,00.00. They gave us only $42,00.00 after they shared the profit. The condo was sold with only $62,000.00, Then they posted it with the realtors as it was sold $72,000.00 $10,000.00 more than actually was sold. In addition, it was listed on the web $85.000.00 Stop this violent abuse against us Muslim Arab Women!!! PS: Dave Frohnmayer had fired me from my teaching job at the UO, then, blocked me to be hired any place! I was hired by OSU, when I ran into one of the UO employees. I got fired the second day. My boss called me to tell me not to come any more! http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21195-reputation_for_rent.html Have you seen a movie that was made in the 1995 called ‘Without Evidence’ with Angelina Jolie!! This is during the criminal former A.G.. Dave Frohnmayer who’s demonizing the honorable former A.G. John Kroger now!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176326/ Noone can sue this criminal cabal! Frohnmayer has secured both the D.A. and the City Attorney by providing Harrag Long to be in charge of these two offices. Plus, Harrang Long is also represting the University of Oregon! The judiciary in Oregon is very much on his side (see Rounds v. University of Oregon, about 20 years ago.) http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-30283-u_of_o_prof_files_bar_complaint_in_long_v_kroger_case.html http://journalism.uoregon.edu/~tgleason/j385/cases/Rounds.html