“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Your tax dollars at work


While you've been struggling with real-world problems and troubles, your elected officials, led miserably by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, have been twittering away valuable time and tax dollars on feel-good resolutions....

WASHINGTON -- The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball."

Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat. In two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session -- 294 so far -- than this one. That's not to say they've been idle. On the flip side, no Congress in the same 20 years has been so prolific when it comes to proposing resolutions -- more than 1,900, according to a tally by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense.

With the mostly symbolic measures, Congress has saluted such milestones as the Idaho Potato Commission's 70th anniversary and recognized soil as an "essential natural resource." As legislation on gasoline prices, tax fixes and predatory lending languish, Congress has designated May 5-9 as National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week, and set July 28 as the Day of the American Cowboy.

I don't know about you but, a do-nothing Congress is a Congress that hasn't taken more of my paycheck or restricted any more of my freedoms. I like when Congress does nothing. It's just too bad that it costs so much of my money for them to do it. 

4 comments:

Kevin said...

This is what happens when liberals control congress. End of story.

Ed said...

As long as they aren't raising my taxes or further regulating my activities, it's fine with me. I used to love a republican congress until Bush and the republican congress spent money like drunken sailors. Now, the less congress accomplishes, the better.

Anonymous said...

But what should really cause you ex-military types to lose sleep at night is that Sen. Pelosi sits next in line to be the president if the President and the Vice-president are both taken out. Woe is me to the good ole USA then!!!

Anonymous said...

Why does Harry Reid look as if he just got a little blood work by a mortician?