Points to Ponder

[rsmit212]

Thanks to bfly for this link.

Some excerpts:

"And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation of factions. We're a people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together."

"It's no better on Capitol Hill. Congress was in session only ninety-seven days in 2006. That's eleven days less than the record set in 1948, when President Harry Truman coined the term do-nothing Congress.Most people would expect to be fired if they worked so little and had nothing to show for it. But Congress managed to find the time to vote itself a raise. Now, that's not leadership."


An interesting read that I have little to dis-agree with.

Comments

[cpl-hicks.livejournal.com]

In part I agree, but Congress was never intended to be a full-time legislative body. The congress person's job is to represent their people and if they are in far away Washington DC, they lose touch with their constiutency. In truth though, the reason that they were probably out of session more often than in session, is that elected officials are spending more time out trying to be re-elected than ever before and that is distracting our representatives and senators from their real jobs.

[rsmit212.livejournal.com]

And in the meantime, they get to set their own wages. Why can't I? ;-)