The United States Congress: Making Big Bucks For Little Work

     Why are some of our elected officials working less and vacationing more?  The Library Of Congress has documented that since the beginning of this year - 2013 - United States Senators and Members of the House of Representatives have been off...more days than they have worked.  No wonder nothing gets done in our nation's capital.  Well...perhaps nothing is too strong of a word...but certainly very little. 

     How can the President achieve goals that will help Americans to live happier, healthier and more successfully overall when the Senators and House Representatives - Democrats and Republicans alike - aren't even in Washington, D.C. enough days to accomplish what needs to be done?

     The current annual salary for rank-and-file Members of the House and Senate is $174,000; and they are earning money on days they do absolutely nothing at all.  Our politicians need to get back on the job. 

     Most Americans work at least 8 hours a day - and many...such as I - work 10, 12, 14 hours or more everyday - just to survive...and that's making nowhere near what the men and women of Congress get paid.  Yet our Senators and House Members are taking vacation after vacation - spending their fat paychecks as they play.

     Congress has already posted a "Gone Fishing" sign - (so to speak) - on the front door, as Capitol Hill is closed until a full week after Easter.  Come on!  Listen up John, Harry, Nancy, Mitch, Eric and the rest of you who we elected to serve our 50 states. 

     Each of your "Congressional club cronies" needs to get off his or her butt and do something productive, so that America doesn't become a "Humpty Dumpty" nation where "all the king's horses and all the king's men" won't be able to put the United States back together again.

    


     America has problems that desperately need to be solved and they're not going to get fixed when the 535 of you are globetrotting or roaming the countryside. 

     President Obama, Vice President Biden and the staff of The White House cannot do it all by themselves.  God knows they've tried, but you all must work as a team; and it can't be done when Congress is journeying, jetting and jaunting around the world.  So put down the TV remote and return to your offices in Washington.  The more our Senators and House Members recess for rest, relaxation and fun - the more our country suffers.

     It would be nice to have more time to tinker and tan, but I don't get more days off in three months than the amount I worked.  Do you?  Well...neither should Congress.

     And that's The Controversy for today.

     I'm Gary B. Duglin.

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