The Lobbyist Suckups (aka Legislators) Are The Last To Know
It seems to me that many people in this country have awakened from their long, Rumplestiltskin-like slumber, and noticed that we have a bunch of thieves, idiots and incompetents running the country in Washington. Oh, and make that thieves, idiots and incompetents that a majority of Americans went "Oh, sure!" about on election day. Well, you get what you go, "Oh, I'm a Democrat!" or "I'm a Republican!" and blacken the little circle for on election day.

Brent Budowsky writes at TheHill.com:

I stand with the vast majority of Americans, who believe that Washington has become a fossilized town that is sickeningly out of touch with an America that hungers for leaders who lead, a Congress that acts and a president who stops telling voters they need teachable moments from him and starts listening to what voters, including many of his friends, are telling him.

The president has gone rogue. And Democrats. And Republicans. And everyone in this capital with eyes that don't see and ears that don't hear what an unhappy nation is telling them. Voters pray for action, but all they hear is self-praise from those who don't listen, and all they see is vanity and self-indulgence from those who don't care.

The American economy is becoming a factory of economic unfairness. Those whose greed almost caused a depression make giant fortunes, demand gargantuan bailouts and gorge on gluttonous bonuses paid for by hard-hit Americans who find their jobs destroyed, their hopes crushed, their dignity insulted and their voices silenced.

In this audacity of greed, the few with the most demand even more, while the many who pay the bills and suffer the pain are sold the great big lie of our times: that the cruel and unusual economy that is a factory of pain for patriots is "the new normal."

The Federal Reserve Board rewards massive hoarding of money from bailed-out banks that refuse to lend, while Mount Olympus from Washington to Wall Street tells Americans to downsize the dream.

Throughout the nation there is outrage in the land, revolution in the air, insurrection in the wind from the left, right and center. The political ground is shaking from gale-force winds of a national demand for powerful change in the way our corrupted and tone-deaf capital does business.

I'm a fiscal conservative, and a libertarian, so I don't see eye to eye with Budowsky on policy. (When he writes "the few with the most demand even more," I'm guessing he isn't including unions in that or the public "servants" breaking California and other states with their outrageous pensions.)

But, I sure am against welfare -- for the GMs of this world, and the kind that's supposed to help poor people, but mainly helps keep poor people poor, and keeps them pumping out more generations of poor people into the welfare system...like the classroom of daddlyless 11th graders I spoke to a couple months ago who read at the first, second and third grade level. And no, it wasn't a special ed class.

Capitalism grows an economy. Socialism kills it.