Michael1942's Blog

Our neer do well Congress has finally shown how useless they are. We as voters have never really trusted elected officials but we have re-elected them time after time out of ignorance, laziness or party loyalty. In retrospect our 535 with all of the recent hedging and media appearances (for no good reason) have failed to do what we pay them (handsomely) for. This is not a new development, we have just been lucky enough to have modern mass communication that  tells us everything the Congress does  and says (and they seem to love being in the spotlight) even if it what is issued barely relates to the truth. The past few years  (and more) should make it clear that our Legislators have only the interests of their big money backers and  what ever it takes to look after themselves. If we do not begin to vote against these long term  seat fillers, our government malfunctions will continue. This has nothing to do with anything more than firing non productive workers.

Of  all of the millions of dollars spent by big money donors to defeat the President how much could have been spent to assist the poorest Americans instead?  This appears to indicate the self serving nature of  these “donors”. The ability to spend these huge amounts of money to preserve their political power is seemingly more important than using that same money to help the folks who have lost jobs due to the outsourcing done by some of these folks. Although I can appreciate idea of not paying more taxes than necessary, I understand that the country runs on taxes from all of us except the very poor and the unemployed. So paying your share of taxes would potentially move some of the unemployed and possibly some of the poor from those positions and into a taxpaying role.

The National no Call Registry used to cover only 800 numbers but now  that phone solicitors use local area codes and other number other than the original 800 series. These  too can be registered. Imagine how much time you could spend registering the multitude of numbers received for solicitations and surveys? The National no call registry requires you to register along with your phone numbers and it takes at least 30 days before it takes effect. You can submit complaints against phone solicitors after that and only if you request that the soliciting company or their agent remove your name from their call list. If this does not occur, you can then submit a complaint with the national no call registry. Does this work?, I cannot be sure but it is certainly worth the effort.

I read in one of several feeds I receive about the “hot” women who are in committed relationships with women. Isn’t this a bit silly? While this information is possibly newsworthy, I  say so what? If men obsessing over well known attractive women halts due to those women’s  sexual preferences then we could be in trouble. Modern times call for modern thinking, sexual preferences have been “outed” and accepted as normal by most rational people yet there are  some hardliners who still maintain the staunch position of  who  should date or marry who. It should not take a National or local law to allow freedom of expression or preference in America where people are supposed to free to live the life they choose without fear of condemnation. If we paid this much attention to our elected officials we would possibly have a  better functioning government.