The Bums In Congress

Rasmussen Reports:

"Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office.

Today, just 23% have even a little confidence in the ability of Congress to deal with the nation’s economic problems and only 24% believe most Members of Congress understand legislation before they vote on it."

I would like to see most members of Congress thrown out as well. Especially all those who are covering up the fact that it was the interventionist policies of Congress, i.e., themselves, that is the largest part of the explanation for the financial turmoil today.

Unfortunately, throwing out the current batch will have little impact. There will just be a new batch of members of Congress that believe they can better determine our economies than we can ourselves. The incentives inherent in legislatures are to pass law after law pretending to do better for us than we can for ourselves. The actual impacts of most of those laws are to reduce the prosperity of our economy that we can each tap into, and in the process a handful of people get special concentrated benefits for themselves (often among these people are the very members of Congress who pass the statutes).

It seems there are few possibilities to CHANGE what happens in Congress and in the Presidency. We need to limit and constrain Congress. Replacing one group of politicians with another group of politicians will just get us another group of politicians who act in much the same ways. We need voters as well as politicians who understand this, and who understand that unless we hold to a constitution for a limited and constrained government, very little will change in the government we have to live with.