Nothing To Lose

                Watching the members of congress attempt to deal with this latest Washington fiasco is like watching my two little boys explain how the milk got onto the floor.  They will adamantly point the finger at one another until they both wind up getting punished.  These are elected members of our government yet they continue to act like children.  Sadly that isn’t the main problem we need to address.  Members of congress have been acting like spoiled brats since I began following politics, but this group of over indulged gray haired children have taken it to new levels of selfishness.  This isn’t about ideology and it certainly isn’t about what is best for the country.  Each night we sit in anticipation of some type of compromise, some type of bargain that would relieve the stress that regular Americans feel every time the congress decides to throw a tantrum, but instead it becomes more and more evident that the people who freely roam the halls of our capital touting their concern for the American people will without conscience, send the economy into yet another downward spiral if it means they can satisfy their own political needs.  They can do this because we the people have allowed them to create a system where they can profit regardless of how well they perform.

The issue we need to address is accountability.  We need to hold them accountable when they accomplish nothing or as in this current crisis, when they actually make matters worse.  Suspend their pay when the government shuts down; suspend their health benefits when they can’t work out a budget.  When members of our armed forces can’t even get death benefits serving in defense of our nation, how do we allow the men and women who sent them there to continue to receive theirs?  How do we deal with our children when they don’t do their chores, when they throw themselves on the floor in the supermarket, when they refuse to get along with their siblings? Maybe we should consider sending them all to their rooms without dinner, take away their toys and threaten coal in their Christmas stockings.  Can anyone recommend a child psychiatrist that we can send to the hill?  If that doesn’t work maybe we can tackle campaign finance reform and gerrymandering!