Who’s The Real Benedict Arnold?

Before he lost his re-election bid, James Maloney equated the Stanley Works, in New Britain, Ct. to Benedict Arnold, for wanting to re-incorporate in Bermuda to reduce their taxes. If it weren’t so pathetic, it would be amusing. I think it’s congress that should be compared to Benedict Arnold.

Why? Because the selected few leaders decide which bills come up for votes and which ones do not ever see the floor. So instead of our elected officials representing us, basically the government is being run, in toto, by less than half a dozen congressman. I call them traitors to the principles of self-government, and slaves to their own wanton ways.

Even worse is the biggest single problem with congress, in my opinion; riders, which are responsible for virtually all the pork-barrel wasteful spending in our country. Because major bills are held hostage to the likes of Robert Byrd, ( who gets more money for tiny West Virginia than most other states in the country ) billions of wasteful dollars can’t be vetoed.
If all the wasted dollars went back to the states ( from which they come in the first place,) EVERYONE’S TAXES WOULD BE REASONABLE!!!
Then I would guess nobody would have to think about tricks and gimmicks
to avoid or reduce taxes.

I say bring up every bill, no matter how foolish, for an up or down vote, with no riders. It shouldn’t take long to vote no on the silly things. The good ones would get proper debate, and the pork-barrel waste would be substantially eliminated. In fact, I venture to guess that if each pork-barrel bill had to stand on its own merits, most congressman would not have the cohones to even bring up such bills. Unfortunately, the founding fathers forgot one thing---nobody legislates the legislators.
We almost had a good thing with line item vetoing, but that didn’t last.

I run a business, and if I let my managers attach foolish expenditures to
necessary needs, I would be out of business in short order.
The government is, in fact, big business. REALLY BIG BUSINESS.
Why not require it to be run as a business? What do you say, Mr. Maloney? Help save money for the country, and it all trickles down to the states.
Now that would really be representing the people!!!

Rock