Congratulations Congress

Well I think that the investors in the United States and the NYSE have finally given up on the Congress. The congress has finally done it. They are well on their way to bankrupting the United States. They take a vacation but still want the unpaid FAA employees to show up everyday without pay to maintain employment integrity. Well I say bullshit. If I was an FAA employee I wouldn't show up for work again until I got paid. To hell with what the congress wants. I say shut this country down until those sorry elected officials get their heads out of their asses and either show up for work or resign. I am telling you. WE need to get together and get rid of all of them and things aren't going to get better until we do. The republicans are wanting to insure the economy stays in the shitter until after the election because they want to insure that Obama doesn't get elected again. Instead of taking the bull by the horns and doing the right thing they are just going to go on and screw everybody. I'm telling you its time to start marching and protesting. If we don't we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

Recess

The senate had to hurry up and pass the debt ceiling bill on Monday because if not they would have had to work into their scheduled recess. That started me thinking about how much they were paid, and how much they actually worked. I decided to google it an find out. What I learned is interesting.

First. There doesn't seem to be an actual website that lists what they get paid. You can find the salaries, but not the benefits, then you can find the retirement pay, but not everything put together. My figures might not be accurate because they really don't admit how much they actually get paid. Basically the base salary earned is $174,000.00 per year. and every year they automatically get a cost of living increase unless they vote to stop it.

Second. The house has 10 weeks of scheduled recess and the senate has 13 weeks of schedule recess.

Third. There are no attendance rule for our elected officials.

People I am telling you they is now F*****g way we are getting our moneys worth. There are industries all across this country where people are working 80 hours a week and only getting two weeks vacation and they aren't getting paid $175,000.00 a year.

We do not have time to wait until the next election and vote in or out a new administration. We need to get active now and make our voices heard. If we don't take back our government we are going to let them destroy the way of life that we have become so comfortable with and worked so hard to preserve.

Civil Disobedience

I haven't blogged in a while, I've been busy sorting out the more important experiments in my life. I know that I complain and bitch a lot and sometimes you get tired of listening to me, but this time I have something that I think is important. We need to think about it and find a way to get together and make this happen.

I believe in American. It is a GREAT country. We have opportunities and liberties here that they don't have in other parts of the world. But I think we are in danger of losing some of the advantages that we have. I think it is the fault of the current administration, and most of the administrations that we have had in Washington for a long time. It is time that we get together as Americans, not democrats or republicans, tea party, or independents and come together as a country and make a statement.

There has been the million man march on Washington, Protest about Illegal Immigration, Millions of Americans walk for three days every year to stop breast cancer. Well we have a kind of cancer right now in Washington and it is eating away at the American way of life. Our voices are not being heard. Our elected officials are selling us out every day. All the talk of listening to the people and the bullshit of holding town hall meeting is a tragic joke they used to get elected and re elected. It's time we stood up as a people, the American people and walked down main street American and make our voices heard.

I propose the Main Street America March. Every CITIZEN takes a week day in November or December or even January, but we can't wait too long, and peacefully walks down the main streets of their towns for a day. From one end of main street to the other, from one end of America to the other. Protest have toppled governments and changed policy. It's time we took back our government and made our voices heard.

Start a conversation about this. Find out when its possible, stir up the passive and get them involved in the best form of government, and country in the world. There is no sense in bitching unless your willing to act. Pretty soon if we don't act. It will be too late.