Muscatine

The following website is a good one for following the workings of Congress.  What bills are being worked on, and who is sponsoring them, and what finally happens to them.  If you use this website you will come to realize that almost all bills that are introduced are never passed.  And many of the bills passed are never OK'd by the Senate.  In addition, many many bills are introduced over and over again year after year and are a form of posturing.  I found this site (that some of you may already know about) while doing some research checking up on a "jobs" bill Loebsack said he had introduced in an email to me.  I found out it is an old bill reintroduced each year that dies in committee.  And the essence of which is contained in several other bills also introduced in Congress.  My advice is to check out the validity of anything you hear from any Congressman.  Some are honest, but many are just political hacks.

Sorry, my computer somehow posted this before I had included the website or finished with the title.  Here is the website:

http://www.govtrack.us/

It would be nice to have a web site similar to that one for the Muscatine City Counsel. Maybe we would be able to stop the elimination of our individual rights.  It could possibly even bring some common reversal and give some of our rights back.  Fire pit fees, grass cuttings fines, private home inspections, junk car inspections,  local police and county attorney wanting to put a young woman into prison for driving over too freshly poured and unguarded cement, to just mention a few.

It's hard to tell the difference between code and law enforcement and good old boy favorites.  

So you think it is a good thing to have grass clippings going down our drains and thru the waste water treatments so as not to pollute the Mississippi? And it is a good thing to allow junk cars to sit around in yards - for what purpose? I think it is great that we are learning your core values on this board. We like to know where people are "coming from" when we make our decisions at the polls. Keep up the good work.