Wow, what a job! A month off in late summer. A few weeks here, two weeks there. Extended visits on their 'home' turf. Presumably, to connect with their 'local' voting constituency. And get face to face evaluations on the job they are supposed to be doing. Instead, under current design your congressperson is more likely 'working' a ski resort or perhaps sailing on one of their personal crafts, accompanied by "important people". Aside from token "town-hall meetings" or a well publicized stop at the seniors home/pen, your elected legislators are likely no where to be found, locally that is. For this, we pay these slick little devils almost 200 grand a year, plus, plus, plus.
That's not all, not hardly.
When they do get back to the Cat-Bird's seats in Washington, the perks are just getting started. Maybe even taxpayer-paid trips abroad for themselves and their families. Oh, and their aides and maybe their families as well. Ostensibly and almost always labeled a "fact-finding" excursion. Not surprisingly, these jaunts invariably are to exotic locations. Including super-premium hotels, gourmet meals in fine restaurants. Nearby golf courses are required natural coincidences. Places we would go for a once-in-a-lifetime getaway with a special person, if we could only afford such a thing. In our dreams, most all of us, anyway.
Instead of seeking out those who could benefit and listening to the stories of some of the individuals that make up the block of voters who repeatedly re-elect them, sight unseen. Maybe they managed yet another local airport- you know, for 'Cessna's, not 757's. Or a stretch of road convenient for the folks back home. And the once in a blue moon when they do get back home, they are expertly managed to look and sound and act like what their particular voting demographic thinks they're getting for that vote. This theatrical ability is an absolute requirement. A single well placed drainage ditch could send a "John Kyl" or another "'You Lie' Joe Wilson" back to congress for 6 years in the Senate or 2 years for the House. Imagine what a local golf course or skeet-shooting range could do for re-election hopes! The really sad part is, too often this is precisely the case. For this voter irresponsibility and simple-minded greed and selfishness, the entire country must experience the outcome. And as we all can clearly see, it ain't pretty. Now imagine what shenanigans these lawmakers could get into over a span of 40 years or more....wait! You don't have to imagine, just open your eyes! It's downright revoltin'!
In truth and reality, it's nothing more than a slick sham process that keeps millionaires, felons, drug dealers, adulterers, pedophiles, murderers and far too many "front-men" for banks/corporations, in power. Year after year after year. In power over all of us. What a sorry, useless, bunch of silver-tongued con-artists America has- posing as representatives of the people- And to the world on our behalf. There is no other explanation how the same repugnant bastards, the same people who have enabled corrupt presidents and literally torn this country apart- keep getting re-elected by local folks. Honestly, I'm not very certain those same 'local folks' are remotely aware what "else" their smilin', hand-shakin', bar-b-que throwin' politician is doing 'back in Washington.' Yes, I do think many- if not most- Americans are this shallow. Many are simply downright stupid. Yes I think this. It's a very dangerous if not fatal condition, for Americans to blindly allow the fortunes of the entire country to be pillaged, and it's okay because 'We got Ours'. If you allow politicians to become wealthy and powerful and commit unreported crimes and abuses, at no cost or consequence to themselves.....HELLO!!!!! Yes Virginia, there are many people like that. Too damned many! They are invariably referred to as "psychopaths" and/or "sociopaths." I intend this as literal, not figurative. Whatever ails these people will only intensify, they don't soften over time.
This is the number one reason the United States is where it is today. Broken, ridiculously corrupt, dispirited, in debt miles past our ears (Again, by design!). And falling even further, faster. Nothing could have happened in this country unless the voting public allowed it to happen. The voter is where the corruption and ineptitude begins. Americans not interested in seeing or knowing anything beyond their own city limits has placed our government into the grubby little waiting fingers of the worst kind. They know this, One more time- this is By Design!!
( Will continue in Part II.......So how can this repetitive sado/masochism be thwarted? How can we get the U.S. Congress to act on our behalf, in unison, for the good of the entire country and by extension the rest of the world? Hopefully- and frankly it may be too late- we can put some real representatives back under the roofs of the People's Government. I have an idea! )
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