Monday, May 7, 2007

IMPEACH THEM ALL

All this impeachment talk and other rhetoric coming from Washington is a smoke screen for business as usual.

CEO pay rose by a measly 37%, while the average worker saw his rise at a hefty 3%. Job cuts and shipping them overseas, under the guise of saving money, and this savings is for the corporate pocket and not ours.

Trade inbalance is rising by leaps and bounds. Cargo ships loaded to the brim on the way here, and nearly empty on the way back. Yes there are jobs galore, that is if you like to greet people at the big box stores at minimum wage.

As a nation we are falling behind the rest of the world in education. Coaches are given carte blanche and multi million dollar contracts, while teachers can barely scrape buy on their salaries, and have to dip into their own pockets for supplies.

A feeding frenzy is going on at the public trough. As local and federal elected officials stuff their pockets, and clamor for more, as services which were once paid for with tax dollars, are now laden with high fees.

The only thing we are getting cheap from our elected officials is talk. The medicine peddlers of old would be jealous at how easily people fall prey to all this talk. They would have made millions, if they talked as much as our politicians.

I say impeach them all and let's get a bunch in that are camera shy and will role up their sleeves and do the job they were elected to do. No speeches, or fancy promises, just work, and if they worked as hard as they talked, maybe we could fix a few of the problems ailing this nation.

3 comments:

JoeC said...

We should even use preemptive impeachment. You know, if any elected official even remotely grandstands or stretches the truth, preemptively impeach them before they do some real, illegal damage. Don't know how or where we'll find their honest, hard-working replacements though.

Pelmo said...

There are many replacements, but they are scared off by the big machine politics and figure they don't stand a chance.
A simple solution would be to have statistics just like in baseball.
1. How often did you show up in chambers to work.
2. How many lobby sponsered flights and golf games did you participate in.
3.How did you, your family or friends benefit by the legislation you just passed.
4.How many of the promises you made during the campaign have you kept.
With these and other stats we could finally know what they are up to.

JoeC said...

I like that idea!