The US Congress has a 7% approval rating…..most Americans think our elected officials are pathetic do nothing parasites…….I mean they get paid for doing nothing and then on top of that they get all kinds of freebies….gym, haircuts, mail, and how about those trips that they call “fact finding” mission when in reality are just a free trip sometimes with the family…….and the final stupidity is that they get re-elected…how’s that for moronic?
Apparently Congress will do whatever they can to protect and keep as secret as possible their “freebies”……
The things that happen behind closed doors: In the case of the House, a quiet move that removed the requirement that lawmakers spell out free trips they’ve taken on annual financial-disclosure forms. The House Ethics Committee made no public announcement of the change, which the National Journal discovered in its review of the most recent crop of filings and which it notes “reverses more than three decades of precedent” stretching back to post-Watergate days. The head of an ethics-minded watchdog group calls it “an obvious effort to avoid accountability.”
But the AP points out that the freebie trips will still have to be reported to the publicly available House clerk’s website, and notes that the information logged there is far more specific than what lawmakers have had to provide on their financial disclosure forms (for instance, those forms didn’t require the lawmaker to share lodging and transportation costs). But the National Journal calls those forms the “chief document” the media and watchdogs have long reviewed in relation to lawmakers’ finances. As a lobbyist for a consumer group that tracks the Ethics Committee’s moves puts it, the change “just seems a little odd.” (Click to read about how lawmakers and lobbyists vacation together … legally.)
Personally, I think these SLACKERS should get NOTHING for free until they go back to work……..and since the American people are NOT capable of replacing these parasites through the election process then they should get NOTHING for free…….NO WORK NO PAY!
The biggest ethical issues with such freebies is that our representatives spend more time with special interests that don’t always benefit their constituents at large. If these trips would include, at no charge to them, a consumer representative or civic operative in their districts or states that represent their constituents then these meetings might truly be productive for all concerned. But then this would be leveling the playing field and lobbyists can’t have that
Larry check out the next post special interests get their way……still say there should be NO one allowed to be a lobbyist that has served in the Congress……
“there should be NO one allowed to be a lobbyist that has served in the Congress……”
Definitely
Now we need to outlaw it and set this country back on the right track….well as best we can…..
If the tax payer would not pay their taxes for a year, they may get the idea that we aren’t happy.
Well if you were wealthy then that would not be a problem……