Government Pork Pig Needs to Go to Market
Early in the history of our government amendments were added to bills brought up before the House of Representatives and Senate.
I'm sure that our founding fathers had no ideas that amendments a couple of generations later would multiply like a litter of pigs and become a nightmare called pork barreling.
Instead of attaching amendments directly associated with the bill needing voted on to ensure that every citizen's right is seen to, amendments today have become a political grab bag of anything and everything under the sun that can be tagged on and hopefully pushed through.
From a six page constitution we have evolved into enormous bills running near 2,000 pages that bog our government down to a grinding halt as time is spent for each party to inspect each word and clause for hidden meanings to discover what the other side is trying to slide through.
As if that isn't bad enough all too often a bill is finally passed containing payouts or a raise of salary that would have been voted against in a single bill in order to move the bill on handing us taxpayers another bunch of newborn piglets to feed.
Not only does work become backlogged forcing our paid government to put in overtime, but each political side spends days wrangling over bills brought up for vote with speeches on the floor wasting the taxpayers time and money.
The media jumps on board as well and more time is taken as leaders try to defend their stand of a current bill to their constituents with rambling speeches to the public in order not to lose any votes.
If a business tried such tactics they would quickly become bankrupt.
As an American citizen and taxpayer, I think that it is time for our government to become accountable to all of us that pay to keep them operating.
I'm ready to push for a strict ruling to make all amendments only contain items pertaining to what is in the bill.
It wouldn't take anymore paper to write up each bill separately -- considering all the paper already being wasted now as bills are shuffled back and forth adding and deleting from the original copy -- and each official could quickly see what the upcoming vote was about thus quickly move the necessary bills through while eliminating the overloaded pork barreling that we have today.
I personally vote for our governmental to corral Porky pig and butcher it promptly.
Not only would we save time, but billions of dollars.
With the economic crisis that the American citizen is facing today we need our government to quite spending time hassling over thousands of controversial pages of earmarks and get to work stabilizing the taxpayer, who pays their salary.
I'm tired of seeing political parties act like Nero playing with their own agendas while the government burdens its taxpayers.
Let's get Porky pig to the market!
I'm sure that our founding fathers had no ideas that amendments a couple of generations later would multiply like a litter of pigs and become a nightmare called pork barreling.
Instead of attaching amendments directly associated with the bill needing voted on to ensure that every citizen's right is seen to, amendments today have become a political grab bag of anything and everything under the sun that can be tagged on and hopefully pushed through.
From a six page constitution we have evolved into enormous bills running near 2,000 pages that bog our government down to a grinding halt as time is spent for each party to inspect each word and clause for hidden meanings to discover what the other side is trying to slide through.
As if that isn't bad enough all too often a bill is finally passed containing payouts or a raise of salary that would have been voted against in a single bill in order to move the bill on handing us taxpayers another bunch of newborn piglets to feed.
Not only does work become backlogged forcing our paid government to put in overtime, but each political side spends days wrangling over bills brought up for vote with speeches on the floor wasting the taxpayers time and money.
The media jumps on board as well and more time is taken as leaders try to defend their stand of a current bill to their constituents with rambling speeches to the public in order not to lose any votes.
If a business tried such tactics they would quickly become bankrupt.
As an American citizen and taxpayer, I think that it is time for our government to become accountable to all of us that pay to keep them operating.
I'm ready to push for a strict ruling to make all amendments only contain items pertaining to what is in the bill.
It wouldn't take anymore paper to write up each bill separately -- considering all the paper already being wasted now as bills are shuffled back and forth adding and deleting from the original copy -- and each official could quickly see what the upcoming vote was about thus quickly move the necessary bills through while eliminating the overloaded pork barreling that we have today.
I personally vote for our governmental to corral Porky pig and butcher it promptly.
Not only would we save time, but billions of dollars.
With the economic crisis that the American citizen is facing today we need our government to quite spending time hassling over thousands of controversial pages of earmarks and get to work stabilizing the taxpayer, who pays their salary.
I'm tired of seeing political parties act like Nero playing with their own agendas while the government burdens its taxpayers.
Let's get Porky pig to the market!
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