Paul Ryan Advances Patient-Centered Health-care Reform

Congressman Paul Ryan, representing Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District, visited the Hoover Institution on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, to highlight the need to repeal and replace President Obama's health care law. "We know that the first step toward real, bipartisan advances in health policy must start with a full repeal of the president's partisan law," Ryan said during remarks to Hoover Institution supporters.

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I wondered why it is that no matter how low the approval rating of congress is, 90% of those in congress never lose their seat.

The CNN documentary on 'gerrymandering" explained a lot.

Gerrymandering is the practice whereby the incumbent & his party use the census date to draw up voting districts, no matter how absurd & convoluted the district lines are drawn, so as to ensure the incumbent is re-elected.

Gerrymandering must end if we ever want to be successful in "voting the bums out".

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@Visfen Yet another factor in America;s success was the government copyright and patengt laws that motivated innovation and invention.

That competitive advantage too is largely muted, as China & other nations pîrate technology & inventions.

It`s difficult now for invenors to get the necessary credit from banks to market their products. Most end up having to sign the bulk of the pofits to a corp in order to get the finacing.

Exception; successful North Dakota w/ it's state run bank.

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@Visfen Again, the US public education system gave every child a chance to maximize his or her potential and ability to contribute, and gave the US the competitive advantage of the best educated work force in the world, (regargless of how well the US was doing b4 the public education system.

That competitive advanatage is now history too, as other nations are far outstripping the US in percentage of graduates, especially in the critically important fields of math, science & egnineering.

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@Visfen You say that by the 1900`s the US was already the most prosperous nation.

Apparently you don`t grasp that that does not diminish the fact that the US cheap & abundant oil allowed the US to take maximum advantage of the industrial revolution and develope a massive manufacturing infrastructure.

That competitive advanatage is gone. Industry still has to run on oil, but now the US has to import 70% of it`s oil and at ever higher oil prices.

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@Visfen Heres`s another past competitive advantage that helped the US.

Massive gov`t investments in infrastructure gave the US the most extensive and modern infrastructure in the world, which gave businesses and industry a competitive advantage in relation to the rest of the world.

That advantage too is now history. The US infrastrurture is crumbling, no longer the best in the world, & the US per capita investment in infrastructure is now far below that of many other countries.

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@Visfen You say govt's always serve the special intests & not the people.

They always will so long as the politicians are dependent on deep pocket special interest money to get elected.

Hense the critical need for

- public financing of elections

- $100 campaign donation limits for both corps & individuals

- curbing the power of deep pocket special interests to blainket the media with misinformation and deceptive attack ads. (consider their cost to be campaign donations)

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@Visfen Do you hear that folks? I don't know what all the fuss is about because Visten tells us that illegal immigrartion is not a problem for the US.

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@Visfen "Public financing of electionns will ensure party structure stays the same".

Do you just come up with these gems even when they fly in the face of common sense, logic, and the research?

Public financing of elections would greatly reduce the power of money over elections & give even 3d party candidates an equal opportunity to be heard. Combine that w/ $100 donation limits for both people & corps & whoever's message resonates with PEOPLE draws ahead.

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@Visfen So you say you have "a Masters in engineering and economics", yet you have nothing better to do than diddle arouind on YouTube sounding like a garbled re-run of a Glen Beck show?

What the hell, I too have a Masters in economics, as well as in a Masters in International law & post doctorate in finance.

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@Visfen I also thought that of course congress must be subject to insider trading laws, until I watched the recent '60 Minutes' documentary on the topic.

Before I reply to the rest of your post, google '60 Minutes documentary on coongress insider trading', watch a video of that documentary, then tell me again whether congress is subject to insider trading.