Soap Box

This column is not partisan in nature and does not absolve either political party from what I will say below, both parties are guilty, both complicit and both equally responsible for the impasse and log jam that now exists on Capitol Hill.

For any governing body to accomplish anything positive there have to be common goals and common causes, actions of mutual benefit undertaken, not for the good of a political party or high donor pressure group, but for the welfare of those common citizens who put these people in office in the first place.

Unfortunately, Washington has become a place where party loyalty comes before patriotism, where personal power is the incentive that motivates, and allowing anything the opposing party attempts to succeed, benefit to the nation be damned, simply cannot be allowed to pass or, at the very least, be amended or watered down to the point of doing away with the purpose it was proposed for in the first place.

In essence, congressional politics has become like a food fight in a college cafeteria between two groups of frat rats, each searching for the thickest cream pie to smash in the others face, and guess who�s paying for all the food.

They create vast bureaucracies and allow them to become bloated and corrupt and actually persecute the people they were supposed to be designed to help.

They allow dealing with any government entity to become a miserable experience, like walking in molasses with yards of red tape wrapped around your legs.

They respond to a national disaster with tons of food and acres of temporary shelter, only to let the food sit on docks and in warehouses without an efficient means of distribution and the mobile homes to sit on vacant fields rotting.

And the Congress brags about how much money they�ve spent to help out while the people involved in the disasters continue to suffer because the bureaucracy handling the situation is led by somebody who knows absolutely nothing about what they are doing and have surrounded themselves with eggheads and political hacks without enough common sense to pour urine out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel.

It is asinine to the Nth degree and totally silly and wasteful for an ordinary citizen to receive such a difficult and convoluted tax form that they have to get professional help to fill it out.

It should be a simple task on a form no longer than one page, simple grade school addition and subtraction with none of the �Add the total of line one with the total of line two, subtract it from the total of line four, unless it amounts to more than is reflected on line seven, in which case repeat the process less the applicable percentage in table four.�

There are veterans having to wait a year to get an appointment with a specialist and the Veterans Administration spends one hundred million dollars for artwork.

22 Veterans commit suicide every day and the Congress and Senate pay scant attention.

While our entitlements amount to billions of dollars a year, there are still children suffering malnutrition and neglect while the lion�s share of the entitlement check ends up in the pocket of some crack dealer.

And our government thinks the way to solve any problem is to throw more money at it.

They don�t believe in holding people responsible for their own actions and making men who father children support their offspring until the age of majority.

It would be so simple to require every mother who applies for an entitlement to identify the father of the children, a simple task with DNA technology, and require that father to pay child support for every child they�ve fathered or go to jail.

I know, some of them have fathered up to a dozen kids. Well, in that case, that guy had better start looking around for a bunch of jobs.

No pity, who deserves consideration? The innocent child who had no control over how they arrived in the world, or some careless predator that can�t keep his zipper closed and thinks society owes him a free ride.

And this one just incenses me, they actually have a secret multi-million-dollar slush fund to buy off those accusing members of Congress of sexual misconduct.

Nobody should be allowed to stay in office so long as to accumulate the kind of power that continually cheats and abuses the taxpaying public and it�s time to clean house, to disrupt the cliques and mini cabals, to clean out the rot and decay.

Our system of government was never designed for career politicians.

Enough is enough!

Two terms for senators and gone!

Four terms for House of Representatives and gone!

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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