Send only your weak, immoral, & narcissistic
This weekend brought news that the Democrats will try to raise the debt ceiling another $2 trillion dollars:
That eye-popping figure is making Democrats woozy but is what is needed to make sure they don’t have to vote again before next year’s midterm elections. The government’s total debt has nearly doubled in the past seven years and is expected to exceed the current ceiling of $12.1 trillion before Jan. 1.
Why does their job matter so much? If I had to quit my job to save the country $2 trillion dollars, I’d do it in a heart beat. Soldiers sacrifice their lives for much lower stakes. Congress people talk about “serving the nation”, but that is just talk apparently.
It pains me to see the poor quality of people we have Washington.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I suppose I should take exception to being labeled a poor quality person by a voter of a state that sends his share of “poor quality” Congresscritters here. After we all remember that those Congresscritters are us, let’s give a cheer for self-governance which the Founders admitted was a great experiment. Maybe we should invest some of the two trillion in research toward a machine that would govern “correctly”. Then we can spend unending time arguing over what “correctly” means.
But we already have the world’s best governing machine and we have spent 220 years battling each other about “correctly” as we oscillate between two major views that themselves keep changing. In the latest few decades we have had Republican, Democrat, and mixed Congresses, with Republican and Democratic presidents. And here we are, still groping for “correctly” with no resolution in sight. We should probably admit to ourselves that there is no government that can perfectly cope with the temptations of power or our competing desires for having things our way.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
The founders NEVER imagined a 16th amendment. The founders only had those with a stake in the system voting. Hence the quality of the Congresses first members. Now most members of Congress are agents of theft for the people who sent them there.
Quit going to the “founders” when it suits you and ignoring them when it doesn’t (court cases and invented rights).
Yes, this does reflect poorly on “us” – but I don’t send pork stealing corrupt people to Washington. Apparently you do.
You can decide what that says about who.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:25 am
DC sends no one to Congress. That’s good!