Washington has really become a corrupt state. Health care bribes. People who cheat on their taxes. People who cheat on their spouses. Lies about what is going on. Lets make a deal. Lobby bobby. Getting what you want with other peoples money.
Harry Reid says this is how you make legislation. He is what he said.
"One way we were able to [secure 60 votes]... was that we had to deal with the art of compromise," Reid said, noting that every lawmakers from every state have different needs they seek to satisfy. "That's what legislation is all about; it's the art of compromise...This legislation is no different than the defense bill we just spent $600 billion dollars on. It's no different than any other piece of legislation...I don't know if there's a senator who doesn't have something in this bill that's important to them. And if they don't have something in it that's important to them, then it's doesn't speak well for them."
Harry calls it compromise - ok. Its compromise that's corrupt.
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How about social security.
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has said.
“It’s time for politicians to stop stealing from our seniors to secretly finance trillions in wasteful Washington spending,” said Senator DeMint. “Congress has been raiding the entire Social Security surplus every year to pay for bridges to nowhere, teapot museums, and bloated government agencies. Politicians in Congress are using Enron-styled accounting, but if this were done in the private sector they’d be sent to jail. It is time to stop spending the Social Security surplus on other government programs and begin saving it for this generation and the next.”
Every year, Congress raids the entire Social Security surplus to pay for wasteful earmarks and other government programs. In the last 20 years, Congress has already raided two trillion dollars from Social Security, including interest. Without Senator DeMint’s “Stop the Raid” amendment, the Social Security Administration estimates that Congress will raid an additional $452 billion from Social Security between 2009 and 2013, which including interest would exceed $1 trillion.
“There is nothing but stacks of IOU’s in the Social Security trust fund because Congress has spent all of the money and will continue to spend it if we don’t take immediate action. Because of this raid by politicians, Social Security will not be able to pay promised benefits to seniors in less than 10 years.”
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Washington by its very nature has a hard time to tell the truth. It is suppose to tell the truth, it is suppose to be transparent, and not hide or distort things. People in office take an oath. On a Bible. Does it mean anything.? It is suppose to, there is a reason for this.
A man has a two virtues, his word and his deeds.
All politicians seem sincere. But only some are sincere. Many are lawyers, maybe that is the problem.
Here is an excerpt for the movie " The Verdict" (Paul Newman)
Movie Name: The Verdict (1982)
Quote: [Frank is giving his summation to the jury]
Frank Galvin: You know, so much of the time were just lost. We say,
"Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And
there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We
become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become
dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we
become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we
doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law.
But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not
the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the
court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They
are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened
prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and
faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in
justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with
justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.
[he sits down]
We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become
dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we
become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we
doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law.
And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless.
And we doubt the law.
Its not suppose to be this way.
