Two things are clearly evident about our government’s current leadership in our democratic congress. 1) They have no accountability and they know it. 2) They are completely irresponsible when it comes to spending money.
We need to look back no further than last week to find the most telling examples of this. Anxious to break camp and get back home to campaign for next month’s elections. Congress decided adjourn with two major items left on the table. With millions of Americans hurting from the current economic recession and democrats fighting to hang on in key elections around the nation they left what was quite possibly the best campaign tool in unresolved in Washington D.C. Instead they’re choosing to run in the elections without being able tell Americans what their tax rates will be next year.
Even more pressing, Congress dismissed without approving a budget for the government year that began last Friday. Instead they chose to pass a "continuing resolution," a stopgap measure to keep the government in operating funds for the next two months and avoid a pre-election federal shutdown. Basically the U.S. government is going to spend over the next two months with absolutely no budget. And we wonder why the nation’s debt is out of control.
Thirty-nine democrats joined the Republicans in a push to get a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts which nearly deadlocked the motion to adjourn but Nancy Pelosi cast the tie breaking vote allowing congress to leave the matter unresolved and head home. Instead we were given a promise from Pelosi that the tax cuts would be addressed after the elections. Basically they’re giving us the vote us back in and we’ll take care of ya line. Count me in as a guy who isn’t buying into it!
How about next month we bring some accountability to congress with our votes by showing that irresponsibility will no longer be tolerated!
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