When Will Congress Work?
The classic view of an empire in distress has always been summed up by the phrase, Nero fiddled while Rome burned". A new phrase can be added to the lexicon, "Congress played games while the People lost their Future". This Congress under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid seems to wander aimlessly from one fund raising event to the next without taking a proactive step in the direction of helping the American People. While they continue to appropriate Bailout Money for every multi-national corporate entity on earth not one piece of legislation has been proposed or enacted to stop these corporations from prying on the People. We have a Nation where Credit Card Companies are worse than a neighborhood loan shark, where interest rates with late fees and over-limit fees added to the interest costs of borrowing exceed 50% in a lot of cases. Even with the best of creditworthiness interest rates are commonly exceeding 15% even though these companies are borrowing ...