What the Congress does....

My metaphor for the day:

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. (from Anacharsis, the first outsider to be made an Athenian citizen, and who was included among the legendary Seven Wise Men of Greece by ancient historians.)


Ah, our wonderful Congress, which makes a political football out of every issue that comes up.  Even though they finally approved the raising of the debt limit, only done 70 times in the last 50 years, they created a crisis out of it with repercussions still to follow.

They fail to appropriate $25 million to the FAA and the result will be a loss of revenue of $ 1 billion by the time they get around to approving it when they come back to work in September.  Why don't you ask your senator and representative about that when they are home in the district the next few weeks?  It would be interesting to hear what they have to say....

Yes, they don't want to raise taxes at all (the debt "compromise" was approved by both parties!) yet they can cut services to the poor and to the middle class.  Of course they can easily break through the lack of services - do they have to worry about health care, education for their children, or retirement, just to name a few areas of cuts.  Why no - they have a cadillac health plan that we provide, they can afford to put their children in private schools (and forget about the needs of public schools in this country), and have a generous retirement program once they serve a few terms.

Now they are calling the rich "job providers" - and we can't take any money out of their pockets.  Of course a big problem with the economic recovery is that the fat cats are not creating jobs.  They are just sitting on it.

Keep informed my friends, and take care.