Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out

Please read the following list and then decide what action is most important:

a) Renew the Bush tax cuts in order to provide some certainty to households and small businesses in the country and make sure that disposable income is kept in the private sector of the market and economy. Hopefully, this renewal would help getting the economy moving again rather than sending this disposable income to the political class where it will almost likely be wasted without and corresponding economic benefit.

b) Change the section of Obama Care that requires 40 million United States businesses to file 1099 tax forms for every vendor they spend over $600 with during the year, allowing those businesses to use these resources to expand their businesses and the economy rather than wasting these resources on meaningless bureaucratic waste and nonsense. Changing this section would remove a large amount of uncertainty from the minds of business owners and allow them to focus on what they do best, operate a business.

c) Pass a real budget for the country and the Federal government rather than throwing together yet another continuing budget resolution to keep the country bureaurcracy running in a haphazard way. Planning out a consistent and effective budget that reduces the uncertainty in the country and the market caused by this continuing resolution nonsense would be what is best for the nation's citizens and businesses.

d) Finally pass a permanent health insurance coverage bill for those brave Americans that rushed to Ground Zero after 9-11 to help out their fellow citizens as much as possible but who are now suffering the health ills that resulted from their brave actions in 2001.

e) Conduct the House of Representatives trials of Democrats Charles Rangel and Maxine Walters, as proposed by the House ethics committee set up Democrat Nancy Pelosi, in order to provide swift justice or redemption to Rangel and Walters and prove to the nation that Congress actually cares about corruption.

f) Reign in the unconstitutional power grab by the EPA on regulating emissions without approval by Congress and approve the bill proposed by three prominent Democratic Senators to do just this, restore the balance of power as mapped out by the Constitution.

g) Start addressing real issues including failing public schools, war on the drugs, leaky borders and non-existent immigration policy, skyrocketing deficicts and unacceptably high unemployment.

h) Get out of Washington D.C. as soon as possible and save your own political career prior to the November elections.

I would bet that when forced to choose from the above list, most mature, caring, patriotic Americans would pick one of the first seven choices. Unfortunately, most of the people in our political class what not fall into this group of Americans and have already opted for the last option, get out of town to protect their political careers. With all of the issues facing America today, our politicians have again taken the selfish, immature route of only looking out for their own self interests.

The uncertainty they have created in the market with their increased paper work requirements, non-resolution of the Bush tax cuts, and the absence of a full budget have further delayed the improvement of the economy and unemployment. The postponement of the corruption charges just reinforces the  reality that politicians' self interest is better than clean government. Suffering first responders will just have to hang tough until after the elections, the future status of their health care insurance delayed again. Damage to the Constitution, we can fix that later. Schools, drugs, deficits, unemployment, etc.: hey, we have not done anything on those issues so far so why the rush now?

This behavior is despicable. The selfishness of these actions reprehensible. They leave us only two choices:

• In November, despite the extra time the incumbents will be spent campaigning, please vote out all incumbents regardless of their party affiliation. They are all to be blamed for leaving such vital unfinished business back in the Capital while they look to save their own skin.
• Longer term, implement Step 39 from "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" which would install term limits on all Federal politicians. We should make all politicians lame ducks the first day they come into office. That way they may not be in such a rush to leave unfinished work just so that they can work on their re-election campaign. 

If we can do both of these steps then I would gladly hold the door open for them so that it does not hit them on the way out (just as long as they cannot come back in that door or any other door.)



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