House Republicans, keeping the faith
“Where are the jobs? God knows.”
After preaching for weeks about the urgency of Washington taking action to create jobs, lawmakers decided to put their mammon where their mouths are. And so on Tuesday evening they descended from the mountaintop and came forth to anoint a jobs bill of biblical proportions:
“H.Con.Res 13 — Reaffirming ‘In God We Trust’ as the official motto of the United States.”
Cassi Creek: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Congress needs to be brought up short and smacked into the current century. They have an incomparable, possibly irreparable economic problem to deal with. The citizens of this nation need jobs, our tax codes need overhaul, we are embroiled in a profiteering-driven foreign war, our infrastructure is crumbling, and our schools pay football coaches more than they pay science and math teachers. This nation is mired in dysfunction, greed, and corruption.
Therefore, Congress, in a collective display of abject incompetence, wastes part of an already too short legislative season, pushing this nation toward an unconstitutional theocracy in an effort to appease the teavangelists and to poke up the fire under their teavangelical voters.
There is no reason for our currency to carry a religious message. When we look at the reality of placating imaginary deities, there is still a huge unemployment problem, and Texas needs rain. The plethora of prayers that must be launched skyward by Texas ranchers and farmer nightly seems to have done little good. Neither have the multitudes of requests for jobs directed to a bronze-age deity.
There is no excuse for allowing the teavangelists to co-opt the already-poorly working government and to force it into a theocratic mold. We can look around the world today and see the harm done by religion as it renders people stupid and governments dysfunctional and brutal. This waste of time placating the professional preachers who milk millions of poorly educated “believers” in order to purchase legislation that benefits them and their “non-profit” churches; should never have taken place.
We citizens need to be alert. Despite their protests otherwise the teavangelists want a theocracy. The rest of Congress is too cowardly to prevent such idiocy.
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