House Select Committee

I noticed that we now are paying for a House Select Committee on Benghazi.  We invaded a country, killed thousands of their citizens, got 5000 of our own killed and countless of our own wounded and now cannot even take care of them and we need to investigate what happened at Benghazi.  The chain of command screwed up.  That is what happened.  However,. the invasion of another country without just cause, the destruction of their infrastructure, the looting of their country's arifacts, the destruction of their government on a pack of lies is of no concern to our congress.  Our country is in the toilet and I think we need to flush all the politicians down but it would destroy our plumbing and I sure don't want to pollute the oceans with them.  I can't think a single reason they exist.  The middle class is dead, college grads cannot find a job and are up to their armpits in student loans, our medical complex is screwing the citizens right and left and congress's only concern is what facts they may be able to twist to make the Dems look bad and maybe give cover for the losers calling themselves Republicans.  I'm fed up with the whole mess.  Frankly, it seems to me that it will be good for the country when global warming puts DC underwater.  The politicians won't be missed.  And now congress is jumping on the President because of the mess the VA is in.  Hello!  Congress has the oversight authority, not the President.  Congress has allowed the VA to remain in a mess and indeed helped make the mess by allowing Reagan to gut it.  Congress has always turned their heads the other way on the VA, IRS, BLM and most of the other agencies until there was a chance to make brownie points, then they jump on the bandwagon.  It is way past time we outlawed lobbying and put them on a merit based pay scale.  No benefits.  Just merit based pay.  They need to be down in the trenches with what used to be the middle class.

illegals and the border

Just read in a paper from the South Texas border region around McAllen that the border patrol are catching at least 1000 illegals a day.  From October, 2013 until now, they have stopped 160,000 and we don't have a politician with the balls to do the right thing for the country and stop this.  They don't care if our country is destroyed.  As long as they get their kickbacks that is their only interest.  And the businesses are only interested in the cheap labor so they will keep hiring them.  The taxpayer is screwed.  And if they could figure out a way to bypass the voter and just install whomever they wanted, they would do that too.  Personally I think Congress should be paid on merit only with no benefits.  Don't do the job, no pay.  I am so disgusted with all the elected officials right now I would love to see every one of them deported to a third world country and have their passports stolen so they could not get back.  We would be better off.

Politics and Illegals

I really had hopes for this president.  I thought that finally we had someone who would clean out the illegal aliens.  Well, he is really just trying to find a way for them to be given citizenship.  Like everyone else in Washington, he is so far above the trenches that he does not have a clue.  He doesn't see our schools in Texas catering to illegals.  Our own kids are ignored while we concentrate on educating Mexico.  The school district here has gone so far as to go to Mexico and hire teachers because they can relate to the Spanish-speaking students.  We are an English speaking country.  Why do they not learn English? And why do w not make them pay tuition?  Why is it the responsibility of the taxpayer to have to educate the rest of the Americas?  My property taxes are so high that I am going to sell my house.  I can't afford them anymore. And they know how to milk our system before they ever get here.  This taxpayer is fed up.

politics again

I am seeing where the Republicans are all up in arms about Bengazi.  Yet none of them ever uttered a word about the thousands killed and maimed for oil.  None of these idiots ever uttered a word about the mess Bush left us in nor about the thousands of Iraqi citizens that were killed, nor the families of the troops who came back broken and face a lifetime of hardship because of this.  And for what?  For oil.  Yes, Bengazi was bad, but wasn't the lives of our troops worth a little outrage?  Wasn't the maimed and damaged troops worth a little outrage?  Hell yes.  So where were the Republicans then?  Why was there no outrage and why was there no special committee to investigate the lies that got us into Iraq in the first place?  Where is the outrage at the taxpayer money thrown away?  Where is the outrage at the veterans not getting the health care they deserve?  Well, maybe if the created enough of a diversion, we will just forget about the Republicans putting us in this mess in the first place.  Maybe we will just forget that they took a huge surplus and a balanced budget and put us trillions in debt. Maybe we will just forget that they gave Bush carte blanc to do whatever he wanted and spend whatever he wanted.  Ergo, his administration spent like drunken sailors on leave.  So now we are just supposed to forget about that and pretend it never happened.  Well, it did.  So did the destruction of the economy on their watch.  This Independent will not be forgetting.  Cheney and Bush should have been tried for treason.  Rumsfeldt should have been dropped in the middle of Bagdad and told to have fun.  Bet he would not have been so gung ho on the invasion then.

Politics

I have been wrapped up in the effects of the weather on my home state.  Those tornados were horrible.  I don't know why we are surprised.  Vilonia and Mayflower are in the tornado belt in Arkansas, but it is still horrible.  Why no shelters?  These are poor people and they can't afford those shelters.  Some did have them.  Most did not.  My heart goes out to them.  This is something they deal with just like Louisiana deals with hurricanes.  These people just pick up the pieces and move on.  These are people who have never counted on the government to fix this for them.  They rely on each other and everyone helps out.  They are good people.