Our government at work!!!! You won't believe this!?

Question

It was on the situation Room, with Wolf Blitzer! Can you believe this? Congress, and the Senate, want to reduce their work week, to FOUR days a week!
They only work on an average of seventy days a year, as it is, and they are grossly overpaid, for what they do now!
This is insult to injury!
Is this a smack in the face, to the American people or what??
It's not bad enough that they give themselves a hefty pay hike every year?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to go back to the way it was when the country started? They got room and board, and worked their butts off!
What do you think?

Answer 1

A government is a group of people that exist for the purposes of increasing debt, widening the gap between rich people and poor people, and funding world domination projects such as Amtrak. Governments were invented by Ugg the caveman in 7331 BC when he hit his fellow cavemen Obb over the head with a club in return for a slab of meat from fellow caveman Jubb. Since then, more sophisticated forms of government have been developed, in which the person hit over the head with a club is often cannibalized by wild rodents or IRS agents, so as not to waste any usable parts. Government reached a high point in 1917, when Lenin invented toilet paper.

Answer 2

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

This is quoted from the American Declaration of Independence!

CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)


There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
Mark Twain

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the congress is in session.
Mark Twain

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Mark Twain

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”
Abraham Lincoln

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
Andrew Jackson

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880- 1956)

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H L Mencken

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Thomas Paine

Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
Thomas Paine

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark (Samuel Longhorne Clemens) Twain 1835-1910

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot 1667-1735

All these people knew that all politicians are rascals, despots, unintelligent, cruel, inept, bunglers, cheats, liars, theives, back stabbers, and dirty dealers way back in their day.

It hasn't changed, not one bit! A politician is still a politician. A crook mascaradeing as a decent person.

Answer 3

How many in congress and Senate? DO you have figures for us? Or do you really think they have this kind of power. Come on. It is not an original idea. It is an energy saving idea from the 70's. Many civilians on military bases worked 4 days a week with a flex schedule of 10 hours perday, still 40 hours. It is just one less day they drove to work and less electricity that was used. It did not work out because of various factors.
I think you are a bit reactionary and maybe should run for congress and redress all of these wrongs.

Answer 4

I want them to pass the District of Columbia Energy Conservation Act. It would mandate that the Capitol Engineer shut off all electrical power to the Capitol and the Congressional office buildings on the last Friday in April and turn it back on the Tuesday after Labor Day. That would get them and their staffs out of town, leaving less time for them to figure out another way to get more revenues to spend. LOL!

Answer 5

The last Congress only worked an average of three days per week. So anything better than that would be an improvement. Also, I think it is assumed that when Congressmen are not working in Washington, they are working hard in their home districts. If you think your Congressman is too lazy then vote him out...

Answer 6

It would be the first step in being perfectly honest with us. Most of the time they don't do a thing anyway. Perhaps they should just stay home all the time.


Oh, I apologize. They do occasionally pass a nonbinding resolution.

Answer 7

I hear you but I respectfully disagree with you. The less time my Congressmen spend in Washington the less time they have to spend my money. They need to reconnect with their people and if that means being in Washington less then so bee it.

Answer 8

Well they have to have time to campaign for the election which is what a year away.

Answer 9

Politians, what? The same the world over ....