It was a pack house for a town hall meeting for Kansas First District Congressman Tim Huelskamp and as you would expect, a very partisan crowd.
He started off with some charts that Congressman and Senators like to use to get their points across to their constituents. He talked about the national debt and how the big three seem to get ignored, that being Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He says those three need to be addressed to solve the countries long term debt.
And as you would expect, many in the crowd want to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama-care. Although, some in the crowd suggested that maybe the best way to go is to just let it take its course believing it will be a total failure. Huelskamp doesn’t agree with that believing it would hurt the economy and health care as we know it.
Of course progressives would argue that the Huelskamp and others are giving misleading and even factually inaccurate information on the issue.
Another issue that got a lot of talk was the farm bill which failed to pass. Huelskamp believes that its top heavy when it comes to food stamps. He believes that could change when the bill comes up again. He says 80% of the farm bill is Food Stamps. He wants to promote that people that can work should.
One issue that didn’t get much attention at the town hall was a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as one man and one woman which was introduced in the house by Huelskamp. He admits that will be a up hill battle to get a constitutional amendment not only in the House of Representatives, but most definitely in the Senate.
Some those who clearly hate the president suggested that he should be impeached believing that he has violated the constitution. Huelskamp is realistic in believing that idea is going no where in the house and would be doubtful in the Senate.
He tweeted after the meeting that 140 people attended the town hall meeting which would be a fair assessment of the crowd. He was supposed to talk for just an hour, but ended up going longer about an hour and half taking additional questions.
It was held at the Shears Technology Center on the Hutchinson Community College Campus.