Congressional Reform

41% of the legislators in the US Congress are lawyers. They are a co-equal branch of government and they make their own rules.  Consequently they spend an inordinate amount of time holding hearings where they all become Prosecutors. This is fun for those who enjoy prosecuting. Even the non-lawyers enjoy pretending that they are Prosecutors.

 

The tactics attackers employ include “newspeak”. They use the word “interference” but don’t distinguish between “influence” and “ballot-stuffing when they argue about “Russian Meddling in US elections as if there is no difference between “political speech” and ballot-stuffing.  We in the US and many other countries have used their own “political speech” aimed at foreign voters. We sponsored “Radio-Free Europe” to broadcast to citizens behind the Soviet Communist “Iron Curtin”. Leaders in most countries continue to criticize actions of other countries on TV and print. Ballot-stuffing is clearly wrong, but influence as free speech should not be outlawed.
 

Consequently we find that televised hearing meeting have arisen to compete with the myriad of other TV shows that are court related. The difference is that we taxpayers are the Producers of these programs and we should be billing the cable companies for the content. The other thing we see legislators doing is to divide into two camps. The Democrats are arguing for socialism and big government and the Republicans are arguing for capitalism and limited government. Adopting this classic struggle adds another dimension to the drama and makes it even more fun to plan and execute attacks on your adversaries.

 

These members of Congress also spend most of their time raising money for their campaign expenses from special interests. That leaves very little time for these legislators to give much time to the Bills they write and it shows. We know that these legislators actually work for the special interest and not the voters.

 

Voters would do well to lobby to legislators to reform campaign finance laws to restrict contributions to only voter for contributions to only candidates who appear on their ballots.  This would end cross-border funds from contaminating local elections, reduce the cost of political campaigns significantly, and end corruption in government.

 

In the meantime, we are looking at the train-wreck of laws and treaties that have been orchestrated to ensure our economic collapse. Congress supported excessive immigration and suicidal job exportation and expanded welfare to include immigrants. The result was an excess labor supply of immigrants taking jobs from new grads and millions of “welfare immigrants” making bombs.

 

We can cite how bad laws have created what legislators call “unintended consequences, but we suspect that there are no “unintended consequences”. We can see the relationship between government-initiated events and future crises that prompt us to go looking for the “puppet masters”. We can identify a series of scams being initiated by government that result in economic decline and loss of citizen freedom. We as citizens need to examine what we would rather have our legislators do to stop this damage.

 

The best blueprint we have to guide us as we examine what Congress needs to do is the US Constitution (as written). We have seen a massive government takeover unconstitutional activities. These are the same activities we are having problems with. They are essentially socialist programs. Government has wrecked the Healthcare and Education industries by over-subsidizing these industries.  Prices are no longer controlled by consumers and the quality of outcomes have suffered. Social Security would not need to be bailed out if it had been established to mandate individual and employer contributions into individual participant accounts, so their funds could be invested. Instead, they created a Ponzi scheme, where these contributions went to the government and have been spent.

 

We have been experiencing our own Bolshevik Revolution in the US where the violent, socialist Democrats are the Bolsheviks and they have been winning. This has been going on since the 1960s. Anti-socialist Americans managed to win the last election, but Pro-socialist Democrats will fight to keep all the gains they have made to keep the US on track to grow their big government socialist republic. The Pro-socialist Democrats have dumbed down the schools and increased immigration to grow their own voters. The Anti-socialists have been attempting to get these voters to see the bad consequences of their Pro-socialist beliefs.

 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader