Robert Perrego

Congress: Shortsighted About Financials

We need to have a complete change - EVERY politician fired and a whole new set of people with new ideas and no favors owed, no dirt held on each other and no buddy network underhanded crap that permeates this nest of snakes pulling us all down.

Dodd, Rangel, Reid and Pelosi should be the first to go.


On Mar 25 04:09 PM Husker Mark wrote:

> While I agree with other commentors that banks receiving bailout
> money should not be paying executive bonuses, I also agree with the
> concept that Congress is not focused on what is important to the
> country.
>
> Members of Congress are interested only in public opinion and doing
> what might improve their chances for reelection. The continue to
> avoid the difficult questions that concern future generations such
> as dealing with Social Security and Medicare, Immigration, and the
> Alternative Minimum Tax. They keep putting temporary, band aid patches
> on things, hoping that they can make it to retirement and let someone
> else deal with the problems.
>
> The Stimulus Bill was just another good example: less than 30 percent
> of the money is scheduled to be spent in 2009, when it is really
> needed and way too much of the money is earmarked for either small
> pork-barrel projects that will help garner local votes or for short-term
> infrastructure projects that will not create the permanent jobs our
> economy needs.
>
> This country desparately needs term limits so elected officials can
> spend more time trying to do what needs to be done for the good of
> our nation instead of trying to get reelected. Representatives in
> Congress spend their first year legislating and must spend their
> second year running for reelection. That is not good use of taxpayer
> money, either.