Washington Is dysfunctional, State of the Union, Chaos

I think we have a dysfunctional legislative body. They are unable to put aside ideological agendas and sit down and negotiate legislation that works for the American people. It has become very clear that they are so disconnected from middle America that they cannot understand what we want or need. Their economic status is simply so much better than the average American that they cannot relate to what it means to have more month than money. I actually heard a Senator say that health insurance through the proposed exchange would only be about $600 per month. That statement would have been laughable if the situation wasn’t so serious. Only $600 per month to someone making $30K or less a year is not really doable. I use this as an example to illustrate the mind set of our Congressional leaders.
They are now polling and trying to find the meaning of the Massachusetts elections results. From what I am hearing from them on the news and the Presidents State of the Union speech is clearly demonstrating that they still don’t get it. I believe that Washington has no regard for out tax dollars or our needs. I believe they are driven by Ideological agendas, desire to stay in power and special interest groups providing money for their re-election.
They health care bill is now dead because they could not and would not work together to implement even the small issues they could agree on. I still think that the anti-trust exemption the insurance companies enjoy should be repealed. I also believe that pre-existing conditions and several items like that could be managed if not for the, all or nothing, mindset of our legislators.
What happened to the waste, fraud and abuse issues with Medicare? Are they no longer important? Will they no longer save the American taxpayer billions of dollars? Why are they not fixing Medicare? All you hear is that it is a great and popular program and yet it is going broke and many doctors and health care providers are not accepting it any longer.
The new message is “we get it, focus on jobs and the economy” so now all the work health care reform will just go away while we implement a spending freeze create a new stimulus jobs program. How can you have a freeze and put $200 billion new dollars towards a new stimulus? What happened to $500 plus billion left unspent in the first stimulus? It is obvious that the first stimulus was really not designed to create jobs but put forward many ideological ideals from the liberal Democrats. I suggest they revisit that bill and not spend the remaining money. The Tarp money was originally supposed to be repaid and returned to the treasury for repayment towards reducing our debt, not reallocated for additional social programs under the guise of jobs stimulus.
Stop the “pork spending” it is not appropriate to load any bill will non related spending items that do not benefit the country as a whole. I just cannot understand the mindset of our legislative body during a recession that would increase cost to the nation to build a library in any state.
A spending freeze at the new spending levels is just ridiculous, the spending rate is said to be 28% higher than that of the Bush administration and growing. Cut spending, review all the programs and start cutting your spending. Reduce income taxes across the board, along with capital gains and payroll taxes. Regan accomplished an excellent environment for business to flourish using this principle as did Clinton, even though Clinton raise taxes slightly his spending polices were in check.
I am to a point where I see not relief for the American people, the system is geared to work against us unless we really become active as voters and stay in communication with our representatives. I urge all of you to write your representatives and clearly state what you want. Do not let the polls and the limited thinking of Washington advisors dictate what we get. Let them know that we do not want the Czars and commissions of unelected officials driving policy. In fact lets start the spending cuts with firing these guys and saving the money spent on their salaries and staff salaries.

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