Lindsey Graham #8

This week, senator Graham stated that, "Your government has let you down in a time of need.  There's no excuse for this."  He also said, "This is NOT an acceptable way to run the most powerful nation in the world."

I completely agree with senator Graham.  As the most powerful nation in the world, we need to step up our act.  We are not acting like the nation that we truly are, and things need to change.  The government has really let us down this time, the longer and longer that it stays shut down, the harder and harder it is going to be to get us out of the hole we are digging our selves.

Lindsey Graham #7

This week senator Graham spoke about his thoughts about the government shutdown.  One of the main things he said, that I noticed, was his ideals regarding the loss of government jobs.  He said, "I shouldn’t get a congressional salary while other federal employees are denied the ability to go to work."

This shows his strong beliefs about this topic. And later on in the week he shared that he would be donating his salary to the Wounded Warriors charity, until the government shutdown ended and all the government employees got their jobs back. I believe that this is a very generous act by senator Graham, and a very good thing that he is doing, to make himself look like a very good person (I am not saying that he is not a good person). I personally believe he is doing this just for political reasons; donating your salary because you are a government worker that is still getting paid, while all of the others are not is something that would sound very good on a campaigning add when he runs for election again.