| | Hummm. I Wonder ...As we all know, we pay our elected representatives to go to Washington, D.C. to work. By work I mean that we pay them to look at existing legislation to decide if it is effective and fix it if it is not. We also elect them to originate new legislation that will benefit us in some way or another. Etc.
How is it then that each year we tolerate some percent of our elected representatives taking months and more months off of work -- with pay -- so that they can campaign to be reelected to an office that will pay them to take more time off work so that they can campaign to be reelected again.
Seriously, look at Hillary Clinton. She hasn't been in Washington since she started her campaign for the presidency. She's being paid, but she's not doing the job she was elected to do. Barack Obama the same thing. Ron Paul, the same.
Why should we be paying these people to campaign? If they want to run for the presidency, let them resign their current positions so we can send others to Washington that will work the job, rather than chase the next highest position. |
| | Posted 1/24/2008 9:18 AM - 6 comments
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