LETTER: Congress looks out for itself

Delbert Rankin, Evansville

Congress looks out for itself, not us

A Judas Goat is an animal that leads a herd of sheep into the pens to be slaughtered. The goat itself is then allowed to exit through a small gate, leaving the sheep to their doom.

Our Judas Goat is Congress. It has needlessly led us to the point of financial collapse and like the goat, will not allow themselves to be involved in the collapse.

The reason for this mess is that those we allow to make these decisions don't have to live with them. Their retirements have no age restrictions and are very generous. Why do they even get a retirement? Two years and set for life. I don't blame them. I blame us.

In the recent elections, with a few exceptions, we have stayed the course and the course of course has been all downhill. We will now have the same people who brought us to the brink, in office for two to six more years. No wonder they feel invincible. It isn't surprising that they pass unread budgets or declare unjustifiable wars. It's neither their money nor their children at risk.

The problem is that people are too mindless to care for themselves. By far the larger problem is who they then allow "to take care of them" or more to the point, "to take them."


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Comments » 6

crusader writes:

Is this news? When did our elected officials ever NOT look out for themselves??

letsallgetalong writes:

Larry Buschon represents himself. Period.

whywhywhy writes:

You have a political party that controls the House by majority and the Senate by filibuster that fully realizes they are losing the war and, have decided to go down fighting for the ideals that they believe in, regardless of what it does to the majority of Americans and, they do this, as the writer points out, knowing it won't affect them or their families.

shoe writes:

The one point in this article I do agree with is that people are to mindless to think for themselves. Never a truer statement made, the next generation of American children won't know how to wipe their noses without government intervention.

olddoggie writes:

Congress is controlled by lobbyists-congress is only a mouthpiece for their lobbyists. Money not people determines what congress does. The Citizens United decision only guarantees this will get worse in the future.

whymakeithard writes:

Every political letter or article ends up in a "this side vs that side" which allows the poiticians to retain all the power.

Picture this in your mind. Your standing on a bridge overlooking a set of railroad tracks. Follow them as far as the eye can and they eventually come to the same point. Now, picture one rail red and the other blue ........ that my friends is todays politics. Pick the rail of your choice ....... they lead to the same point.
