Kim Paxton
Freedom Outpost
Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:52 CST
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We are so lucky to live in a country where we have representation. Think about it - we all get to choose someone to go to Washington DC and look out for our best interests. We all have a voice, and we can all rest assured that those elected officials will diligently work for us, their constituents.

Please note my sarcasm.

It's triggered by the recent spending bill passed by Congress - all 1, 582 pages of it.

Wouldn't you think that before authorizing something so massive that our members of Congress would have read it? Or at the very least, have hired someone to read it and summarize it for them?

Nope.

According to one very amused congressman, Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) nobody read this massive bill. Trust me, this is really funny. You'll laugh too.

On Capitol Hill on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked Blumenauer: "The omnibus bill yesterday, it was 1,582 pages, did you have a chance to read all the pages before voting on it?"

Blumenauer laughed and said: "Nobody did!"

"Nobody did?" said the CNSNews.com reporter.

"Nope," said Blumenauer.

(Source)

This isn't even "corruption." It goes way beyond that. This is our elected representatives giving us the middle finger and then laughing about it. Because it's all a big joke to them. They make salaries most of us can only dream about earning and they don't even have enough respect for those of us who put them into office to, I don't know, do their jobs!

How much do they make, you ask? Members of Congress are paid $174,000 per year for their "service." Some with special jobs receive more. For Example, House Speaker John Boehner receives $223,500.

Then, of course, there is a budget for each office. Are you sitting down? Each office budgets between $1.27 million to $1.546 million. Congress has 535 members. So at the minimum, $679,450,000 is paid to run the offices of these people who do not care enough to read the bills that they are voting on...in our best interests, of course.

Almost $700 million dollars is spent on staffing and office expenses, and no one had time to read a bill before voting 'yes' and signing it into law.

Our problem is the 2-Faced Party system (Dems & GOP) keeping up reaganomics (Or in how it's grown since reagan "Advanced Reaganomic Wild West Capitalism" with a "W. Agenda for Privatized Gains") and the fact that the majority of voters have been enabling it to stay this way with their voting. Moves like this by the government have been pretty consistent for the last 33+yrs and have been increasingly blatant in intention within the last 14yrs. They also don't happen without bipartisanship and manage to stay in place because of bipartisanship. When your consistency in "What passes and gets signed into law" is pro corporate legislation, pro warfare/meddling for resources and pro rights losses you call the nature of the beast pretty easily. If you want to say "Well what about the near misses in passing pro the people legislation?" then keep in mind of two things:
1) Voting, like the legislation that passes, is largely orchestrated by lobbyists so that was orchestrated for hype and partisanship appearance PR more than anything else.
2)It wasn't going to pass anyhow. You'll notice that with our "slightly more democrat heavy but still pretty much 50/50 US Senate" none of the stuff that failed came back out on the table again. NDAA however got voted back in 3 times in sweeping bipartisanship, we're probably passing the TTP and the NSA isn't really undergoing any real changes(your wires and information are there to tap if you're not part of the government, corporate america or wall street).

To cover that $1Trill they'll just cut things the people need (because the US runs like a business and the people are seen as "needless expenditures" in the face of profit) and print more money off the privatized central for profit bank we have called the FED. This would be regardless of party/in Bipartisanship because nobody, Dem or GOP, bothered to even bat an eyelash on camera at doing Qe3 or Qe4 let alone really bring up openly the actual impacts. Last spring, you already had Obama making some of the "Romney cuts" with GOP senators in advisory while Liz Warren (With voter friendly rhetoric that was backed up by no action from the Dems) and Rand Paul (with an 8hr filibuster that put no real info or face on what our drone strikes were doing to people in other countries. You'll also notice the actual "not taking action against drones" approach the whole government has taken in regard to drone use.) ran personal and party PR appearance Smoke Screens to cover for it being reported solidly.

Stopping this is actually about voting in a humane party looking to change the system/end how this system works in favor of a people first methodology of handling. We don't have a system that adapts to the people's needs, just those who can afford lobbyists.
Realistic, needed changes won't come by setting us back in time to a "Pre - during Carter Admin" area in legislation (New loopholes will be made because nobody got rid of the lobbyists so it'll just be wound back up to do it all over again with different channels in place. We'd also keep the FED in that process.). It also won't come from just ending the "foreign warfare/meddling for privatized gains" part of the system in order to just keep reaganomic deregulations in place at the sake of securing that "businesses are not prevented form making money" and all while "letting everyone keep their money tax free". (because it also means corporate america keeps their money tax free, they'd be in charge of operating, repairing and building things cuz they will have the money to due to do it, lobbyists will also get to stay and nothing ends up getting reallocated to the people without the behest of corporate power pushing it.)

i agree, i always vote against the incumbents... really doesn't seem like anything will change

Let's dig up Stalin and install him as the head of the new humane party..

He would give you what you want..

Vote Socialist and all your worries will be over!
It will be a veritable Schlaraffia!

So,the People themselves are supposed to become the new Lobby,to dispose of the Government's Ill-gotten Gains?

I don't supposed there was a page in that bill that said I get half of that money was there? hahaha