Posted by
emjayne on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:12:06 PM
There has been an effort lately to do something about pork in Congress. 71 ! members of the Senate voted against a bill that would restrain pork. This is disgusting!
Congress is the most disgusting body of people in this country! I see these journalists covering the news from Congress and I wonder how they can continue to do it without screaming. How can they watch the rotten things that go on day after day? How can they see the Congress go home for a vacation when there are important duties requiring their attention?
I write letters (or I did for a while) to Congressmen complaining and, sometimes, screaming over the horrible situation, and KNOW that they will never see anything that criticizes them. How do we get through to them that they are DISGUSTING, that they should be ashamed of what they are doing to the country?
Did you get the impression that I am DISGUSTED??
Someone said "Oh let's throw out the whole bunch and start over." But when MA sends Kennedy back time after time, what hope is there for throwing anyone out , never mind everyone. If one state is stupid enough to send Kennedy and Kerry back to Congress time after time, what hope is there for the whole country!
We are in a situation where we can go down the tubes because we are so much in debt. (The debt is being bought up by countries which dislike or hate us). They make no effort to deal with the situation...neither Social Security or Medicare or the deficit...and go blithely along like these problems will cure themselves. All they do is add to the government, spend more money, sneak in more pork and it gets worse and worse, bigger and bigger, and they don't even promise any progress anymore. None of the candidates (miserable as they are) are even mentioning Social Security and Medicare.
The economy is tanking and they wring their hands and moan and then hold hearings on baseball and football.
The longer this goes on, the more Libertarian I become.... throw out the whole government and go back to minimum (which was supposed to be the role of the federal govt!) If you read the Constitution you discover what the Federal government was supposed to cover... a bare minimum... the rest of the governing was supposed to be up to the states. The size of the government now is due to them sticking their noses into every possible spot they could find...of showing each one could write more bills than the other...of each one trying for the most pork.