What Do Professional Wrestlers And Washington Politicians Have In Common?

Old saying: What do professional wrestlers and Washington politicians have in common? Answer: They are mostly overweight white guys pretending to hurt each other.

Now, I have nothing against overweight white guys. And I am not claiming that overweight white guys do not make good politicians or leaders. This beef is strictly a "what is good for the goose is good for the gander argument." Most businesses and corporations in this country have to abide by affirmative action guidelines and rules established by the political class through the Federal government or face stiff fines and other penalties. The intent of these affirmative action guidelines was to ensure that women and minorities got a fair share at the job and housing opportunities in this country. Thus, everyone running some kind of enterprise has to conform to these guidelines, laws, and rules.

All except the two major political parties who get to ignore the very guidelines that they see fit to impose on the rest of us. Consider the following composition of Congress vs. the general population:

• About 51% of the country's population is female but only 18% of the Senate and only 22% of the House Of Representatives is female.
• About 13% of the country's population is African-Americans but only 1% of the Senate and only 10% of the House of Representatives is African-American.
• About 15% of the country's population is Hispanic but only 2% of the Senate and only 6% of the House Of Representatives is Hispanic.
• About 5% of the country's population is Asian but only 2% of the Senate and only 1% of the House Of Representatives is Asian.

Again this is not to say that an older white gentleman could not adequately serve a Congressional district that was mostly Asian females. However, if Congress, and the two major parties were a private business, they would be in serious violation of the nation's anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action policies. Thus, just another hypocrisy of the political class where we are told what to do while the politicians of this country get to do whatever they want.

But we shouldn't be surprised by this hypocrisy considering:

• While most people working in the private sector can no longer receive a traditional pension, those in the Federal government and the ruling politicians continue to enjoy robust traditional pensions in addition to Social Security and 401-k like programs.
• While most people in the private sector are happy just to have a job these days, members of Congress not only have a job but they secretly vote themselves annual pay increases regardless of poorly they perform while in office.
• It seems like paying taxes is optional with the political class but mandatory for the rest of us if you look at the tax evasion history of Geithner, Daschle, Rangle (alleged) and many others that have and who have not yet been caught scrimping on their tax payments.
• The political class submits most of American business to the cumbersome but useless Sarbannes-Oxley act but have virtually no budget and quality controls when it comes to Federal government accounting, resulting in hundreds of billions of wasted taxpayer dollars over the years.

The above list could go on for a while but you get the idea and the inspiration for the book title, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom and Destroying The American Political Class." Yes, we have allowed a class of people to evolve in this country that I call the political class. They are career politicians, almost all lawyers (which puts them in conflict with the professions of most Americans), whose primary goal in life is to remain in office at all costs and enjoy the perks of the office, perks that they bestow upon themselves. Rules and laws that they develop are below them to observe and follow, these laws are just for the rest. It is elitism, pure and simple.

If you look around the country you can see what this ruling class has done to the nation. Unemployment, deep national debt, unsolved national problems, a divided nation against itself, and foreign affairs policies that are a disaster. That is why three steps from "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" are necessary:

• Step 39 - would institute term limits so that people going to Washington to serve us see it as a privilege and short term honor and not a career so that they too can join the "ruling political class."
• Step 45 - would hold the political class and the two major parties to the same employment standards that the rest of American has to abide by, fining the parties for not fulfilling the affirmative action standards they themselves have enacted.
• Step 43 - would eliminate the "Senator only" elevator in the Capital building. This special elevator is really owned by the taxpayers who paid for it, but since it can only be used by Senators, it is a very in-your-face symbolic form of elitism that says "as Senators, we are special and no one else can ride on our elevator." Since riding the elevator does not make the Senators any smarter or wiser or even better looking, then scrap the elitism and let anyone ride on it.

The next time see members of the political class together, imagine them in wrestling leotards and rolling around with each other and you will understand that both groups, pro wrestlers and politicians, are not much different from each other and that makes for a very ugly sight.

Our new book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at www.loathemygovernment.com. It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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http://www.cato.org/
http://www.reason.com/
http://www.robertringer.com/
http://www.realpolichick.blogspot.com/
http://www.flipcongress2010.com/