Blind Bloated Ticks in Congress

Recently there was a “crisis” in Washington DC among the managers of government. They had overspent, politicized, and planned for appropriations legislation to come to a dramatic confrontation of one party against another; and it was very exciting to those in “news” media. The Executive Administration of POTUS Obama “shutdown the government.” It was quite dramatic, people were laid off (furloughed), and completely untrue. 17% of the government was shutdown; just the parts to create drama and news coverage. The end result to all the drama resolved on cue; just as any televised mini-series or telenovela. For all of the drama and finger pointing, what really happened was more politicking and deal-making pork-barrel spending. The initial argument was that the Federal government ran out of money, so they needed a special funding bill to cover spending to year-end to keep the government running. It was a drama ruse. Plain and simple. The plan will take the Fed deficit from under 17T$ to over 17T$. There was and is no plan to limit or control spending toward being balanced or less than income. It is spend-spend-spend politics.

So, what we have are blind and bloated ticks hosting on the Federal system and they call themselves Congressmen or Congresswomen or Congressional Staff or Administrative Staff. When you have the power to legislate yourself a pay increase, not many will have the moral fortitude to not do it. This is the beginning of the bloat; like a tick, wedging the head into the host to begin feasting of the lives of others.

Congress, and Washington DC in general, has become so blind to the facts by having their heads buried deeply in the system. They are so busy making deals, politicking, and seeing what deals they can add-on to any bill passing through Congress that they forget they were sent there to manage the system of State; not the system of gain.

Pull the brakes on everything. Bring the bus to a halt. If there is no money in the bank, stop spending. Too simple?

Apparently Washington DC and all the dependents of the United States of America welfare system are blind to real math and real economics. Simple farming rules should apply: do not barbecue the cow that is giving you milk, or roast the chicken laying you eggs.

That simple logic bypasses the understanding of Washington DC politicians. It has become such a game of brinkmanship that the original point and objective are lost.

What is that simple, original point? Legislative Branch is there to represent their communities in the national government. The Executive Branch is there to actually manage the business of managing the national government and provide singular voice to the world on behalf of the local communities. The Judicial Branch is there to ensure everyone plays according to the Constitution and laws put forward by the Legislative and enacted by the Executive.

Somewhere, somehow, people without accountability began managing a government for communities that no longer held themselves accountable to hold their representatives accountable. Why? Because these representatives doled out bread and circuses, a chicken in every pot, liberal application of welfare, and government paid lifestyle luxuries to match those of actual wage earners.

The depravity in the system is the depraved. Where is the intolerance of a system that rewards stupidity? That rewards manipulation? That keeps putting incompetent people back in office who only meet the requirements of age and residency?

The bloated ticks in Congress are systemic of a system that tolerates incompetence; nay, rewards it.

I would ask for a USA version of Oliver Cromwell to reset the system, but I do not know anyone I would trust with such responsibility. I certainly do not trust the current batch of politicians and never-do-wells we have inhabiting Washington DC at present.

There are well educated people in Washington DC. They could, if they chose, stop the insanity and put the nation back on a sound fiscal track. Will they? That is the question? Sadly, I am not hopeful based on what I just witnessed from the House of Representatives and from the Senate. Adults knowingly voted to harm their constituents with legislation that only puts others in power over others.

There are not many historians in Congress or in the White House or in the USSC. If there were they would know the system they are milking for their personal wealth, fame, and power is a system being set up for the dictator who manipulates it for himself; then, he kills all the opposition publicly to ensure fealty by the rest. Anyone hear of the emperors of Rome? Louis’s of France? The Henry’s of England? Napoleon? Lenin? Hitler? And, who is it to be next?

Just like other blind, bloated ticks, this current batch will be lanced and removed by another parasite on the host that is America. That is… if the constituency of the USA does not wake up to what is happening and force retirement on career politicians and replace the incompetent with the competent.

It is your choice, USA.