Don’t Get Me Started
Attention Congress: get back to work!
Don’t Get Me Started
Attention Congress: get back to work!
GLEN SAINT MARY, FL -- What unbelievable gall it takes to quit your part-time job with full-time pay, stating that you don’t know what to do as you pack your bags and head for home, or vacation, or the campaign trail.
"Hefty’s gone off the deep end." Actually, not really. According to Bloomberg.com, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated that the reason he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are going to do nothing is "no one knows what to do." Well, as a public service, I am once again offering, free of charge, my advice to Reid, Pelosi, and everyone else in Congress:
Get back to work!
Running off for vacation isn’t going to fix things. This is especially true if all you plan to do is campaign about how evil the other side is.
Word is that President Bush and "Congressional Aides" have struck a deal to bail out the financial crisis, all to the tune of $700 Billion. Congressional Aides? Are you telling me that a bucket full of unelected, unaccountable assistants have just unleashed nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money because "no one knows what to do"?
You have got to be joking!
Now I recognize that rushing and ramming legislation through just to "do something even if it’s wrong" can be just as damaging. Perhaps even more so. But tucking the tail and running home to get re-elected is cowardly at best.
In fact it’s negligent.
I can picture the scene. A Congressman is rushing down the hall to his taxpayer-funded luxury car with his bags in hand, refusing to talk to the press. A Senator whizzes by unnoticed, breathing a sigh of relief as he waits for a taxi to the airport. Speaker Pelosi in her office is hurriedly packing what she needs, feverishly ensuring that the proper number of books will arrive at every stop of her book tour. (Ironically, the title is Know Your Power.) When a reporter asks what she plans to do, the courageous Speaker shrugs and mumbles something about it all being the fault of the Republicans and there’s no one who knows what to do.
And this is what we get for $169,300 per member per year. Now, if anyone else did that, they would rightly be fired. Usually the boss tells you that you can cancel your dinner date, plan to work well into the night, find a solution, and have it ready for executive review first thing in the morning. If you decided to shirk your responsibilities, you are suddenly out of a job.
I got news for you. It’s everyone’s fault. All parties involved have a hand in the mess that is energy, finance, corruption, and other hot-button issues. And everyone needs to buck up, admit fault, and do what’s right. Time to put politics aside has long since arrived. Pointing the finger should only happen if you are targeting "the man in the mirror."
For crying out loud, use Google. Ask around. Hire a real economist. Ask Walter Williams for a crash course.
Anything but the current, standard, one-size-fits-all Congressional answer of throwing more money at the problem and running home to tell your constituents how wonderful you are. It hasn’t worked for decades, and you’re only making it worse.
Besides, didn’t you clowns just come back from the "August" recess? You need more time off again?
Andy is a father of 13 children who lives with his wife of over 23 years in Baker County, Florida. His opinions usually center around mixing politics and religion with hot-button topics as his specialty. You can contact him at ACHefty@yahoo.com.
