Michael1942's Blog

The fact that our Governor(?) does most his work in Chicago brings about the question of “who does he really Govern, Chicago or the State?”
Of all the people who have run for this office, we have yet to get a really good one or at least one who understands the job. It is good PR to live and work in Springfield (you remember Springfield, the State Capital). With the trial and associated coverage of one former Governor, we now have one who gave raises to his staff while cutting the pay of union and non union workers. I believe we have a person in the Governors seat who promised the moon and can only deliver lip service to that promise. Politics is a business of promises , most of which are unable to be fufilled and the balance only slightly viable. When the voters are swayed by glitz and smooth sounding sound bites, we have already lost the power to control the officials we vote for. It appears to me that all who aspire to political office go in with the best intentions then quickly descend in the hell of the good old boys ineptitude.

The current all consuming struggle to raise the debt ceiling has generated a lot of talk from the high profile participants but no solution. The simplest solution involves cuts and increased taxes. The proposed increase in taxes would affect the wealthier individuals, this group involves many of the Congressional members as well as the President. The President has previously mentioned this but the Congress in their own self centered way have distorted this to seem that every taxpayer will be assessed in this raise. While the “cuts” are ones that affect seniors and the neediest people. The purpose of this deceit is to get public opinion on their side and thereby garner votes at election time. To make a point, Warren Buffet expressed the thought that he would not be against paying more taxes but this was never widely publicized. Our Congress in all of their self serving rhetoric do not feel the need to join in on this because they do not represent anyone but themselves. Where else can a person gain an office where the annual pay increases come regularly without discussion ( a law enacted by Congress makes this possible), receive a generous pension after one term and have a broad coverage health plan at a good price? The Scamocrats and Dupublicans have spent the last 10 to 15 years with this problem looming on the horizon and done nothing about it. Now they apparently want to pin this problem to the lapel of the President.. It is unfortunate that America’s politics is as dirty as ever and possibly as bad as it was pre-civil war. Our erstwhile elected officials have made a mockery of the offices they occupy and completely forgotten what the job is about.