Cassi Creek:
The news today is filled with various examples of Congress
ignoring the job it was elected to so that they can waste time placing the
desires of their separate parties over the needs of the nation.
After more than 40 votes to repeal Obamacare,
John Boehner and his House Republican caucus have taken their crazed obsession
to a new level: They have actually passed a bill that could lead to a
government shutdown unless Obamacare is defunded.
Conspicuously absent from that bill, however, was a promise that Boehner
and the Republicans pushing it would forgo their own salaries in the event of a
shutdown.
House
Republicans aren't doing their jobs as it is. Why should they still get paid if
the rest of the government is shut down?
The very notion that the government might be
shutdown without harming the nation is so alien to me as to be
unthinkable. It is one thing to reduce spending. It is quite another to waste time repeating
votes that have not value but symbolism for the most fanatical of the elected. And it is entirely anathema to engage in such
behavior when we have troops at risk in multiple conflicts.
It
must be remembered that the GOP, currently yelling against engaging in Syria,
is the party that fell all over itself to help Bush 43 start the wars that we
are currently fighting. There is not a congressperson
alive who deserves a cent of their salary if they allow the government to shut
down.
Even
if they avoid shutdown, the GOP intends to apply deep cuts to the SNAP
supplemental food program that many military families require in order to keep
food on the table. If I were currently
deployed and Congress delayed my salary and benefits by creating governmental
shutdown, rendering my family unable to
pay its bills, while taking much need food off my table.; I know what my first response
would be the minute I returned to CONUS. There are many things Congress needs
to hear from our troops, none of which they will like to hear.
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