Congress, DO YOUR JOB!

I recently attended a meeting where the featured speaker was a current “Congressperson”.  In attendance, were approximately 40 prominent Republican supporters, who wanted to hear this person’s opinion on the current state of affairs in Washington. 

Now keep in mind, I’m not an elected official yet, so when I attend these things, I do so as a concerned taxpayer, not a politician.  Needless to say, after about 10 minutes, I was fit to be tied!  All I heard was every reason under the sun as to why no real progress is being made in Congress.  It’s an election year.  We’re not in the majority anymore.  Everyone’s focused on the Presidential race.  Blah, Blah, Blah…

How about this?  Weather it’s an election year or not, weather you’re in the majority or not and regardless of who wins the White House, YOU STILL HAVE A JOB TO DO!!!

Here’s why things don’t get done in Congress:

1.  Congress is too involved in things that don’t matter.  Who cares if baseball players are on steroids?  Hell, most Americans don’t care if they’re all juiced and have it on tap in the dugout!  Quit wasting time on things that you shouldn’t be involved in in the first place.    

2.  3 1/2 day work weeks!  What’s up with that?  Every other full-time American I know works at least 40 hours a week minimum!  They should be working 12 hour days, 7 days a week!  You want to go home, then do the job we’re paying you for and get something done!  

3.  4 months paid vacation!  That’s right!  The last time I checked a calender, there was 52 weeks in a year and our hard working representatives (sarcasm implied) are only in session for 32 weeks.  Here’s a novel idea.  You get two weeks vacation per year and the only days you get off are weekends and national holidays, just like the rest of us.  Leadership means you lead by example.

4.  Here’s another novel idea; if you’re running for re-election, then campaign all you want during the 4 months that you have off during the year, instead of the entire year since it’s an election year.  Besides, if you’re doing a great job, then getting re-elected should be easy; you’re an incumbent, you have access to the press and the media and raising money should be easy since you have name recognition.       

As you can see, I tend to get a bit miffed when I see all of the problems this country is facing, and all our so-called leaders can say is, “it’s an election year”.  If it’s an election year, then they should be doing their best stuff.  This is no different than professional sports. 

Ever notice that when a players contract is in it’s final year, they usually raise their level of play?  Why is that?  It’s because they want to get re-signed.  

In politics, politicians do their worst stuff in the final year and then blame it on the election year, but promise to do better the following year.  What garbage!

Remember this come November;  WE ARE THE EMPLOYER, THEY ARE THE EMPLOYEE.  What do you do with an employee who only shows up part-time for a full-time job?  What do you do with an employee who takes 4 months off PAID?  What do you do with an employee who was hired to do a job, but never does the job?  Answer:  FIRE THEM AND FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL!