Senator Al Franken. No it is not an introduction from “Saturday Night Live” when Al Franken did skits on the show or wrote the jokes that were not all that funny. This might be the scariest thing in decades. Franken who has lately tried to make a living doing nothing other than complaining and blasting conservatives with out any real solution for what he is complaining about is now a United States Senator.(Try not to be to scared children.) Screaming and name calling is not a solution nor does it help anything but anyone, if there was anyone, who listened to Al Franken when he was on the radio knows that Franken is not capable of much else. The State of Minnesota has unleashed something scarier than, Oh heck I can’t think of anything scarier. Franken is going to be seated on a few key committees but sadly not for comic relief(if only).
What is really unnerving is just who is going to mentor Franken in the ways of Congress. Hopefully not the former Senator, now Vice-President who admitted Sunday that the Administration ‘misread’ the depth of this countries economic troubles. Not only did they not know what was going on but they continually want to throw money in the bottomless pit. Hidden taxes and price tags yet to be seen on government projects, we really need to be watching what is going on with the executive and the legislative branches of government. Neither has any idea of what is going on nor do they show any desire of finding out what is happening out here in the trenches of everyday life.
Do not get me wrong, I am not letting the Republican and Independent politicians in Congress of at all. They are all mostly career politicians who for the most part will do anything to stay in office. Why is the office of President the only national office that has term limits? George Washington, our first President, had self imposed term limits as he saw the danger of people holding political office indefinitely. Anyway, all these professional politicians have been running this country into the ground for years and even though some have been trying to warn us for along time no one has been listening. We are responsible for putting these people in office. Ever wonder how much we are paying these people for the job that we have given them? A member of congress is paid one hundred sixty nine thousand, three hundred dollars a year($169,300.00). The minority and majority leaders are paid one hundred eighty eight thousand one hundred dollars($188,100.00) and the speaker of the house makes two hundred seventeen thousand four hundred dollars($217,400.00). This is of course not counting the benefits received. We are paying them a great deal of money to make decisions on our behalf and how many of us are happy with the job that they are doing? By the way I obtained the salary figures here, https://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2008/2008-01-attach1.pdf the “EXECUTIVE ORDER 13454 ADJUSTMENTS OF CERTAIN RATES OF PAY”. I say that we the people need to make a move. We need to hold these people more accountable. We need to remove the ‘dead weight’ from government, push for term limits and reset their pay. Remember the promise not to raise taxes to those making less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars($250,000.00) a year? Well those in Congress fall under that bracket! Small businesses all over the country are going to fail but your Congress person and Senator will not get a tax increase! I say that they need to put their money with ours since we are the ones that are paying them! We should be the ones to approve their raises and benefits, after all when was the last time you gave yourself a raise or increased benefits?
We need to pay more attention people to what is going on. Don’t just blindly go into the voting both(if you actually vote – you should vote) and vote. Make the decision based on what is best for you and your family and your community not what is best for the politician. Think, read, investigate, and decide for yourselves. Don’t rely on biased media to decide for you. Do not put blind trust on career politicians that only want to stay in office and are more than willing to blindly lead you.
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