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Congress, Do you even matter anymore?

We have all seen it, the bailouts, the healthcare debate, stimulus for the economy. As fast as some of these bills flow out of Congress, do you honestly think Congress wrote or even read the full bill? With special interest groups i.e. ACRON or SEIU, why bother even doing the job the Americans sent you to do, Congress?

Taxing AIG bonuses what a joke, next time maybe if you read the bill (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008) i.e. Senators Baucus and Grassley, you wouldn’t look so foolish trying to pass a bill to tax the bonuses away, when you had the chance to do so but failed to act when the bill was up for debate and changes.

Hiring a speed reader to read the new cap-trade bill, news flash, Congress you aren’t even reading it, are you relying on a third party to tell you all the facts?

Commenting on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Senate Majority Leader Henry Reid said, “The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in moving the public to support them.” Does this mean that Apollo Alliance, a special interest group, is writing or is helping write bills for Congress? Apollo Alliance must have had great influence or even maybe wrote parts of the bill since $100 billion in stimulus gave incentives for green jobs.

And with Van Jones, who resigned from the criticism he received because of the controversy over his past political ties with a Marxist group, becoming the green jobs Czar for the President for a few months, it shows possible signs of strong influence or corruption in the government from special interest groups.

Congress, if you are not writing or reading the laws of the land that you are passing that affect millions of Americans, Do you even matter anymore? We are a Government of the people, by the people, for the people, and not a government run by corruption and special interest groups.

By David Basden
Buccaneer Contributor