Separating Fluff and Bull from Facts and Fiction “Fall Break”
September 30th 2010 14:22
As Congress breaks from the fights that have defined their terms of service the American people are left with unfinished business on table.
Unfinished business that is forgotten with the partisan rancor focused on bail out’s, pledges that are sure to be broken and the false bravado that has defined both sides of the conversation during the current session of the United States Congress.
With all the problems Americans are facing the only thing the people are asking for is an honest conversation and even this is a rarity in an age of extremes.
The extremes that occur when social issues that need to be addressed with open debate are used to provide material in campaign speeches.
While the expressed goals of the super majority in Congress have been met by forcing through Health Care Reform, Bail Out’s to Corporate Interests and waiting until the very last minute to address the needs of small business what will be remembered is the things they didn’t do and the work that still needs to be done.
The work that should be focused on the missed opportunities our youth will face because of a broken education system.
That work that directly affects our pocketbooks from the trillions of dollars that could have been spent in rebuilding a job market that has been rattled by a recession that will not go away unless all sides work on a bi-partisan strategy to fix the mess.
While it may be “Fall Break” for our Congressional Representatives to try and save their jobs their will be no break for the jobless Americans who needed them to find a way to pass legislation to move this country forward.
November will be a month of lessons learned for the incumbents who pay the price for the failures of the whole.
Failures that will be repeated if the men and women filling their seats fall into the same traps that got us into this mess in the first place.
Today’s discussion is a direct response to a CNN article which can be read by clicking the link below.
Congress OKs stop-gap spending, ready to go home
Unfinished business that is forgotten with the partisan rancor focused on bail out’s, pledges that are sure to be broken and the false bravado that has defined both sides of the conversation during the current session of the United States Congress.
With all the problems Americans are facing the only thing the people are asking for is an honest conversation and even this is a rarity in an age of extremes.
The extremes that occur when social issues that need to be addressed with open debate are used to provide material in campaign speeches.
While the expressed goals of the super majority in Congress have been met by forcing through Health Care Reform, Bail Out’s to Corporate Interests and waiting until the very last minute to address the needs of small business what will be remembered is the things they didn’t do and the work that still needs to be done.
The work that should be focused on the missed opportunities our youth will face because of a broken education system.
That work that directly affects our pocketbooks from the trillions of dollars that could have been spent in rebuilding a job market that has been rattled by a recession that will not go away unless all sides work on a bi-partisan strategy to fix the mess.
While it may be “Fall Break” for our Congressional Representatives to try and save their jobs their will be no break for the jobless Americans who needed them to find a way to pass legislation to move this country forward.
November will be a month of lessons learned for the incumbents who pay the price for the failures of the whole.
Failures that will be repeated if the men and women filling their seats fall into the same traps that got us into this mess in the first place.
Today’s discussion is a direct response to a CNN article which can be read by clicking the link below.
Congress OKs stop-gap spending, ready to go home
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