Where is it that elected representatives feel that they can take their leave without finishing urgent business, causing financial loss and unemployment, two major issues facing their "people."
Only in America.
It is most disturbing that members of the House and Senate take their four week leave prior to dealing with the expired FAA taxation.
This serious lapse by Congress is estimated to cost the government approximately one billion dollars in revenue.
Isn't there a financial crisis still facing the United States?
Does Congress feel that dealing with the loss of a billion can wait?
Or, is that number too small to worry about?
The time is past due when all individuals elected to represent the people perform their jobs as professionals, not as politicians.
They (members of Congress) need to balance the budget. They need to totally eliminate earmarks as a "way of life." They need to trim their own office expenses. They need to quit spending more than is collected by the myriad sources of income they collect. They need to be held 100% accountable.
In short they need to put our house in order.
Main Street USA should not have to continue paying for the excesses and irresponsibility exhibited year after year on Capitol Hill.
America does not need more politicians. America needs leaders. America needs people who take full responsibility for their actions.
Over For now.
Main Street One
Showing posts with label crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crisis. Show all posts
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Capitol Hill Egos Dangerous to America
The egos residing at Capitol Hill, those same egos voted to hold office and act as representatives of Main Street USA, have proven to be dangerous to America.
The theater and dramatics surrounding the "historic" agreement to lift the debt ceiling have proven once again that for a person to be a part of the House, Senate or White House they must have a huge ego that does not concern itself with what is right for the people.
Their egos dictate to them that they must be right and others must be wrong and damn the consequences.
For a group of supposedly bright people to allow the "debt crisis" to roll to the 11th hour-plus, knowing full well for months that August 2, 2011, would come and go is all the proof needed to brand politicians as egotistical-to-the-extreme.
Witness, there is nothing at all historic about lifting the debt ceiling. That has been done time and again to ensure that future generations of politicians can spend freely, without regard to the damage created for future generations of Americans.
What is needed in Washington DC is not another huge ego, but a leader who leads by example. A person who can cut waste in his/her own sphere (i.e., cut foreign travel by members of Congress, cut their own salary, cut their office expenses dramatically, eliminate taxpayers footing the bill for members of Congress to visit home, etc.)
And during all the "savings" announced under the "historic" deal there has been absolutely no mention of doing away with earmarks. Cutting those pesky pieces of pork would save taxpayers between $300 and $400 billion in a decade and be an immediate expense reduction.
There is no doubt that Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison and the other Founding Fathers are disgusted at the actions (as well as inactions) by those elected officials who put themselves above the citizens of this great nation.
Capitol Hill has a short memory. Do they not remember that they are servants of the people?
Over For Now.
Main Street One
The theater and dramatics surrounding the "historic" agreement to lift the debt ceiling have proven once again that for a person to be a part of the House, Senate or White House they must have a huge ego that does not concern itself with what is right for the people.
Their egos dictate to them that they must be right and others must be wrong and damn the consequences.
For a group of supposedly bright people to allow the "debt crisis" to roll to the 11th hour-plus, knowing full well for months that August 2, 2011, would come and go is all the proof needed to brand politicians as egotistical-to-the-extreme.
Witness, there is nothing at all historic about lifting the debt ceiling. That has been done time and again to ensure that future generations of politicians can spend freely, without regard to the damage created for future generations of Americans.
What is needed in Washington DC is not another huge ego, but a leader who leads by example. A person who can cut waste in his/her own sphere (i.e., cut foreign travel by members of Congress, cut their own salary, cut their office expenses dramatically, eliminate taxpayers footing the bill for members of Congress to visit home, etc.)
And during all the "savings" announced under the "historic" deal there has been absolutely no mention of doing away with earmarks. Cutting those pesky pieces of pork would save taxpayers between $300 and $400 billion in a decade and be an immediate expense reduction.
There is no doubt that Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison and the other Founding Fathers are disgusted at the actions (as well as inactions) by those elected officials who put themselves above the citizens of this great nation.
Capitol Hill has a short memory. Do they not remember that they are servants of the people?
Over For Now.
Main Street One
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