Why not?

What do a majority of your representatives in Congress have in common? Well it’s a number of things, first and foremost MONEY. If not their own than that of someone else’s, which to me means that they are representing someone other than those of who "pulled the lever". Second, connections whether it is that their father, uncle grandfather, father in law etc, etc... held office. Rockefeller, Lee, Stevenson, Long, Kennedy, Gore, Dingell, Rogers, Breckinridge, Patterson, Dodd etc, etc... Are we electing people or have we just created an American Royalty? Last for this blog, is it just me or are an obscene number of them Attorneys? I guess that is why although a majority of Americans are in favor of Tort reform there is never any mention of legislation to control the number of baseless lawsuits that are clogging our Courts.

So I ask you, why we have so few representatives that are average Americans? I mean who is minding the store, where is the guy or girl in the House that can say "Hey, in the real world we work 50 hours a week 50 weeks a year, where is everyone?" In my world people punch a clock, where is the clock in Washington?

Why do people spend millions of dollars to get a job that pays only 174,000 dollars a year? Could it be they just really want to be a public servant? Or is it the benefits that they get after their term (lobbyist, board member, political consultant…). Well I guess we need to look into that and I forgot it’s never their money they are spending anyway. I don’t know about you but I have lost a lot of faith in our elected officials and I think it’s time we go “Old School, Grass Roots” on DC, let’s send someone down there that knows what a hard day’s work is all about.