Posted on 06/22/2013 10:15:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
1) Our own government chides those of us who pay taxes for being greedy because we don't want to give the politicians even more of our money to do things we don't want done at any price.
2) Increasingly, every bill that is proposed in D.C. seems to be crafted with the hope that at least 51% of the American people are ignorant or not paying attention to what the legislation actually does.
3) When there's a slip-up and members of Congress and their staff are *** gasp *** expected to follow the same laws as the rest of us on something like Obamacare, they immediately start looking for a way out.
4) Having an unelected bureaucrat decide that your property is a "swampland" because it rained yesterday or that you didn't follow some arcane legislation can lead to your spending years of your life dealing with an army of government regulators in court and costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees; yet the bureaucrats pay no price at all for being wrong.
5) IRS employees like Lois Lerner can take the 5th Amendment when they're asked to testify about breaking the law to go after American citizens, but we're not allowed to take the 5th Amendment when the IRS demands information from us.
6) Who in the government was held responsible and punished for Fast and Furious? Benghazi? The subprime crisis caused by the government? Wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on Solyndra? Detroit going bankrupt? The IRS scandal? Giving someone as unstable as Bradley Manning access to classified data? How about allowing eight of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers to be registered to vote? The correct answer: nobody, which is exactly the problem.
7) The average government employee makes more than the people who are paying his salary.
8) If the economy goes bad, you may have to tighten your belt, but our government NEVER thinks it should have to cut back on its spending.
9) Inconvenient campaign promises by politicians are treated as almost entirely unrelated to what they do while governing.
10) There's so much stagecraft and deliberate deception in D.C. that it's impossible for the average person to understand what's going on without having someone who understands politics explaining it to him.
11) CBO scores on legislation are treated as legitimate and meaningful despite the fact that the rules have been rigged in such a way that the CBO ALMOST ALWAYS DRAMATICALLY UNDERESTIMATES the cost of government programs.
12) When Congress is in session, you won't find a more corrupt or dishonest group of human beings all gathered in any one place outside of a prison.
13) Our Congress REGULARLY votes on pork-laden bills written in legalese that NO ONE has actually read cover to cover.
14) We have so many laws and regulations that almost every American is breaking the law somehow on a daily basis.
15) When the Republican Party and Democrat Party collaborate in a bipartisan manner, it's almost always to screw the American people in order to help some influential or deep-pocketed special interest group.
16) Our politicians in D.C. are just as corrupt as those South American politicians we laugh at for taking bribes. The only difference is our politicians are smarter about it. A bribe is illegal, but giving their relative an incredibly highly paid job or slipping an earmark into a bill that will end up helping their investments to thrive is considered par for the course in D.C.
17) Our overbearing politicians and bureaucrats feel entitled to tell you how to run almost every aspect of your life. They think they know better than you what health care you should have, where your kids should be allowed to go to school, what you should be able to do with your own property, what TV, toilet or shower head you should be allowed to buy, what light bulb you should have and even what size of soda you should be able to drink.
18) The priority scale for most politicians goes campaign contributors, special interest groups, political bosses, lobbyists and then if they're in a competitive district, their constituents. Very few politicians in D.C. ever seem to give a thought to what's good for the country.
19) Almost every bill that passes is sold with lies that later turn out not to be true; yet the bills aren't repealed and the politicians who deceived the American people are rarely held accountable.
20) We have government employees whom we put into office, whose salaries we pay, telling US what to do and acting as if we work for them.
Actually, just expecting them to abide by the same laws wouldn't really cover it. Their value as individuals is less than ours on a one-on-one basis, and they also have direct responsibility for the legislation and therefore should bear any downsides to a GREATER degree than we do. Therefore, I've always felt that any laws should fall on Congress in some intensified way for five years before they affect real people with real jobs even at normal strength. If they can't take it at double strength for five years without repealing it, it's obviously not something we should have to live under at all, ever, even at the basic legislated extent.
>> Our Congress REGULARLY votes on ....
Policies and funding for the “nefarious” NSA. That’s right, our “representatives” are responsible for the alleged Constitutional violations; the citizens we elect to represent us. I know, it’s easier to piss on the NSA.
Our politicians will read a list like this, every word true, and laugh at us because they know we can’t do anything about it. They know that no matter what they do, we will flock to the polls and return them to office. They know we are that stupid, and they are right. They don’t need to change anything, they have got it made and they know it.
As one pol said that he didn't need your vote because he can have lunch with a lobbyist & garner 250,000.
One reason covers it for me. The Federal government and many state governments violate the US Constitution and as they have protected the ruling elite from backlash at the ballot box only a Thomas Jefferson moment would have the possibility of success in restoring the power of WE THE PEOPLE over the government.
“We have so many laws and regulations that almost every American is breaking the law somehow on a daily basis.”
A little history lesson.
The king of Hawaii, Kamehameha III, lived in very troubled times, but was responsible for changing Hawaii from an absolute monarchy to a Christian democracy.
One relevant story from his life concerned the Hawaiian religion, which had become horribly bloated and oppressive. It did so through the use of innumerable taboos placed on the people. Violation of most of which resulted in death.
Kamehameha III, who had considerable European and American counsel, looked for an opening, and found it in a particularly nasty hurricane. He used this disaster as an excuse for replacing the Hawaiian religion with some recently arrived Christian missionaries.
Not surprisingly, few but some now ex-priests of the Hawaiian religion objected to this, and the ex-priests were advised to put a sock in it, lest they be the last example of a taboo execution.
I use this an an analogy to our current bloated and oppressive government. One of the sins of George III, in the US Declaration of Independence:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
How about their TOTAL disregard for our constitution...?
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