Look we have lots of work to do before we can forward. I am not trying to put the cart before the horse but we need to be ready to go. Going back many moons ago I wrote a blog about how most of the bills in Congress are not wrote by anyone in Congress. They are sitting on a desk until the right time. Think the Patriot Act. Just a couple of days removed from 9/11 the Patriot Act was already in front of Congress ready to pass.
The government is supposed to be for the people by the people. Please tell me where the lobbyist community is the biggest block that has access to our Representatives. Wouldn’t Corporate America be more wise to spend it’s money on it’s own infrastructure and employees versus greasy no backbone people in government? Why is it that any law that helps corporate America is first on the docket in Congress where as the American taxpayer is at the bottom of the agenda. Therefore let it be known that lobbying and lobbyist are forbidden in the United States of America.
Since I mentioned bills in the beginning of the article. Let’s talk about bills. The only way Congress will say anything gets passed is if you concede something here and there to get what you really need. This just leads to four thousand page bills like the latest Omnibus bill that just got passed. Nobody knows what the hell is in it and we the public get screwed all the time. Nancy Pelosi said of the Obama Care bill, let’s pass it to see what is in it! That is completely unacceptable!! Bills need to stand on their own, you want it passed you debate it!!! If you can’t come to a compromise, it’s dead. No attachments, no addendums, period!!!
We know Washington D.C. is the swamp and everyone in government living there is a swamp creature. If you live there and work there you must loose your sense of reality, everything you need is yours via our tax dollars. We already know that Congress needs term limits. The same needs to happen to the un-elected bureaucrats of the CIA, FBI and the like. As we have been finding out via the Twitter files, the three letter agencies seem to think they run the country. Fauci would be the biggest example of this arrogance, at his job for more than 40 years and corrupt as hell. His government salary is more than that of the President of the United States. He and his ilk have spent too much time in D.C.
Speaking of the swamp and bureaucrats, they don’t live like the rest of the country does. Representatives can have a staff of up to 23 to the cost of around $11 million per year with 2009 dollars. Senators can have an unlimited staff so who knows what that costs us the taxpayers. So your staff and three letter agencies all get paid by us, your health care is paid by us, your kids get to go to college, paid by us. Your corruption is paid for by us! Pelosi just gave all the staff a raise, it would seem to me they all need to live within their means like the rest of us do. Pay for your own health care Congress, pay for your own kids college, Congress, FBI, CIA and the like. Fund your own retirement as well. If you take away all of these earmarks maybe just maybe Public Service could return to Public Service.