Congress, You Stupid Sheep! How Much Did You Save With A Shutdown?

The bickering blowhards, immoveable idiots and lackluster leaders have accomplished another great victory for the American people. They appear finally to have managed to shutdown the government, rather than continuing their ineffectual haranguing of the public through the media about their herculean struggles to bring about the meaningful change that they see as their mission in life. Never mind that none of the various ego-centric groups have actually taken the time or made the effort to think. We have just another round of ideologically arranged politicians that are only able to feed their political base the same rose fertilizer that seems to keep them content in their blissful ignorance.

Should they manage to navigate around some last minute ‘Hail Mary’ continuing resolution to perpetuate their deranged attempts to do their pathetic version of a bait-n-switch fire-sale; it won’t be because they have understood anything, it will merely indicate they want some more time to play politician at the public expense. I can’t wait for the old clichéd “the American people” want me/us to do whatever asinine bumper sticker slogan they saw on their drive to Congress.

Perhaps the news media should start a tote board on how often Congressional members are asked why they don’t address the budget areas that are the substantial cost-causers in the budget, and then proceed in not answering. Maybe reporters, pundits and new anchors could ask them if these problem solving politicos can name in order the top five budget-gobbling entities* in the federal budget. For those who claim that as a group that they were elected to deal with this specific problem this should be like reciting “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. If by some miracle they actually know, our hollow heroes should be asked why they are not proposing how to address the unsustainable tax-sucking economic vampires that these budget entities represent. Is it because they don’t have a clue? That they never had a clue? Or, that the concept of having an idea is too foreign to their mentality for them to even attempt it?

Should the government shut-down, the vast majority of tax dollars that are misspent will continue to be misspent. In one case, if these penny-pinching spendthrifts succeed they will increase the excessive funds thrown at one of the least well managed rat-holes available to them. What spending did the shut-down stop? Less than 15% of the budget. How much of that 15% is just delayed spending, and is not a savings at all? How much will the shut-down cost in lost effort, and is thus just more wasted money that we can credit directly back to Congress? How much damage will the shut-down do to the rest of the economy?

Certainly, our elected legislators have considered and calculated the financial value of a shut-down versus spending their time and effort in actually addressing the real problems that face our nation. And if you believe that then you should hear about this investment group that this guy, Bernie Madoff is forming and he is looking for investors.

I don’t mind political comedy, but I prefer it not being the primary and singular job of the members of Congress.

* Top Five: 1- Soc. Sec., 2 - Dept.of Def., 3. Medicare, 4. Medicaid, 5. Other Mandatory programs, 6. Interest on National Debt (a special adder for the reader).