Your'e Not a Rock Star, You're a Public Servant

This is insane. Congress in its self-serving and overly inflated view of their significance and value to the public that they ARE SUPPOSED to be serving, just ordered themselves a HALF BILLION DOLLARS worth of luxury jets!.

These are the same hypocritical bloodsuckers that publically berated executives of the “Big Three” automakers for having the gall to travel to Washington for Congressional hearings several months ago on national television.

Although the grandstanding by these bad actors was transparent, I couldn’t disagree with their sentiment. But now that they are operating out of the public eye and can operate with near immunity under the cloak and dagger veil of Congressional procedure and budget processes, they are committing the same type of egregious, egotistical, and shameful behavior they condemned on national television.

Oh what a difference an audience makes.

Why in the world does anyone think that members of Congress need Gulfstream jets? We are facing 10% unemployment, TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS, and these parasites want to fly around the world in HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR JETS with their families to see the world?

Are you kidding me? None of them can figure out how to pay for the health care bill they are trying to shove down the throats of the American public, but they can justify spending a HALF A BILLION DOLLARS OF OUR MONEY so they can travel like Bono and U2!

The pathetic excuse they are peddling to their sycophants in the media is that they need to travel to places like Afghanistan and Iraq to better understand the issues.

I’ m calling bullshit.

The military is making regular flights from bases all over the world to any place these lying, pocket lining, con men and women want or need to travel. When celebrities that travel to areas like Afghanistan and Iraq to entertain the troops they fly on military transports. If it’s good enough for entertainers who PAY TAXES why isn’t it good enough for the parasites that LIVE OFF TAXES? Anywhere else they need to go they can fly commercial, just like the executives of The Big Three that were justifiably thrashed by Congress just a few months ago.

It’s really time, for us as citizens and taxpayers, to demand a stop to the abuse of the public trust by members of Congress. These thieves need to know that we are watching not only their votes, but also their appropriations, and how they use taxpayer money to cover their expenses.

We’ve all heard the “write your Congressman” stuff before. I am just as guilty as anyone of complaining about the things I hear Congress doing; yet not really doing anything about it.

That’s over.

It took me less than a minute to locate my representative on this site: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

I strongly urge anyone who feels like I do to please call, write, or fax your representative and let him/her know that you have had enough. Enough jets, enough trillion-dollar deficits, enough force-feeding of bills that no one reads. DEMAND accountability. POLITELY YET FIRMLY let them know that you and your family actually know that it is Congress who is the either the problem or the solution and that you and your vote are paying attention.

Maybe then, they will too.