More Meaningless Chatter from Barletta…
It would appear that after months and months of shying away from taking a stand on any real issue of substance, Lou Barletta is ready to let the people know where he stands on the issues. Just yesterday, Mr. Barletta announced that he is in favor of saving Social Security. Not only that, but Barletta even has a plan to save it, as well.
In order to keep the Social Security payments coming, Mr. Barletta has come up with a brilliant strategy. Congress needs to give back the $4 trillion dollars that it took from the fund and spent on other things. Then, a law needs to be passed by Congress which forbids them from ever touching the money again. If this is done, we can all credit Lou Barletta for saving Social Security. Right.
What Mr. Barletta fails to mention in his master plan, however, is where this $4 trillion dollars is going to come from. Is he going to pass a hat around the halls of Congress and take up a collection? What does he propose be cut from the Federal budget? Will there be an increase in taxes? How long will it take for this $4 trillion to be raised by the government? All very important questions that, I’m guessing, Lou Barletta has no clue how to answer.
This is, perhaps, the most frustrating aspect of Mr. Barletta and his candidacy. Rather than come up with actual solutions to real problems, Mr. Barletta either invents unrealistic solutions to fake problems (the “illegal immigrant crime wave” in Hazleton, for example) or comes up with fake solutions to real problems. Everyone, including Lou Barletta, knows that telling Congress to “give the money back and never touch it again” is not a plan. That’s a pipe dream. It’s a simple minded attempt at dealing with a very serious and complex problem.
What this does demonstrate, however, is that Lou Barletta does not possess any real leadership skills, that he is either unable or unwilling to develop intelligent policy, and that he is unfit to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Congress. Lou Barletta, and his idiotic ideas, should be kept as far away from Washington DC as possible.
-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com
May 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Barletta is such a dolt. The money is always returned to the system. It is borrowed. While I may agree with the “lock box” premise, his rational is devoid of any intelligent insight on the issue. He is a stupid, stupid man. An ex-jock who traded on his popularity for political office… Can anyone say Skrep?
As a republican I will not vote for this morally devoid dim whit.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am
mluz, you a republican? Are you really Dan just posting on his own blog? I know I got tired of reading this blather for a few days, but Dan don’t resort to using pseudonyms and having conversations with yourself. Come on you think much too highly of you for that kind of foolishness. My offer stands, come over to the forum, we have an area for local blogger, no matter what the stripe.
http://nepalibwatch.com/phpbb/index.php
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June 11th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Dan;
Thank you for having the guts to post the truth about Barletta. It’s good to know that you are willing to add historical facts, which most people on the “ow, they’re hurting me!” side of the fence love to ignore. Ignore….that’s actually what they do to anything that has to do with self responsibility.
Barletta has done alot of damage. And please be aware that I can see on a daily basis how the new agenda in Hazleton/West Hazleton is to catch up with his rhetoric supporting unsupportable IIRA. I see on a daily basis how police actions against Latinos is increasing. I guess if the numbers, not needed by the people in “his city”, did not match at the time of the court hearings, by the time the appeal comes around they will….hmm?
Please don’t stop offering TRUTH to the public. IIRA is not the way to solve this issue….
But….SI SE PUEDE!
June 12th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Well, here goes …
Lou Barletta is a hypocrite and always has been. He is not a savior — I’m not even convinced he’s potty trained. While I agree that illegal aliens have downgraded Hazleton’s quality of life (as I lived there and dealt with the things he rants about — I moved 2 years ago), if he wants votes he needs to get his carcass out there and tell us what he stands for.
No Barletta will ever get my vote. Kanjorski isn’t getting it either.
So is there anyone with a backbone who will run against both of these [donkeys]?