RSSIf It Weren’t For The Power of Politics Think How Much Money Would Be In The Economy Right Now!
J.J. Jackson | February 26, 2009
I have said, and continue to stand by the assertion, that Washington sucks the life blood out of the economy. And they do it in more ways than one. They do it by raising taxes but they also do it by simply existing as well. It seems that despite talks about how there is this recession thingy going on, lots of people have a lot of money to throw at politicians in the pursuit of political power.
Exhibit one:
WASHINGTON — The deepening economic recession hasn’t stopped members of Congress from throwing lavish events to raise campaign money for the 2010 election.
This weekend, donors to a political action committee run by Rep. Jeb Hensarling are invited to the Snake River Lodge & Spa near Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a ski outing hosted by the Texas Republican. The minimum donation: $2,500, according to the invitation, which touts opportunities to take sleigh rides to an elk refuge and snowmobile excursions to the Continental Divide.
Skiing also is on the agenda at a fundraiser this weekend in Vail, Colo., for Democrat Ed Perlmutter. Donations range from $2,400 for an individual to $5,000 for a political action committee.
Donors seeking warmer climes could have joined veteran Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii for a “Weekend of Aloha” fundraiser at a resort on Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach. Inouye’s event, held last weekend, started two days after lawmakers passed President Obama’s $787 billion plan aimed at jump-starting the economy. Lawmakers are on a week-long break and return Monday.
Think about this for a minute. If all these people were not so worried about what Washington DC elites were or were not going to do to them that they felt the need to lavish them with all sorts of campaign funds think about all that money being instead spent on employing productive Americans and buying goods and services! Instead we are funneling ungodly amounts of money down a black hole just to curry political favor and try to get someone elected who will uphold a particular view of the Constitution which may not even be the actual view of the Constitution!
This is why this country is in deep shit. Washington is the problem. People should not be so eager to throw this kind of money at politicians for political favors. I do not care what the favor is. Only once we return to some semblance of a Constitutional Republic and actually embrace our Constitution as it is written, not as we wish it to be written, will this country recover!
But until then Washington will continue to suck the blood out of us.
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