US Government Shell Game

You know the “shell game”. The one where the street hustler has three shells and a little pea marble. You’re supposed to figure out which shell the marble is under.

We hear so much these days about The House of Representatives and the Senate (on both federal and state level) using committee groups. Adding another layer of scrutiny and time involved to passing legislation (doing their job)!

So it now takes longer (meaning it cost US more) for them to deal with a piece of legislation.

The committees are made up of House and Senate members.

Are we to believe while these members are in their committees we have “business as usual” in the House and Senate?

If so, does this mean the committee members don’t vote on issues which are discussed while they are in committee? Or does it mean they vote without full knowledge of the issues (since they missed discussions of the topic while serving in their committees)?

Perhaps if our government representatives worked a full 40-hour work, week like most Americans, they would have time to do their jobs without having to add the additional red tape, time and cost of committee groups.

This whole committee scenario is another way our government keeps increasing in size, numbers and cost.

We are one of the richest countries in the world. I suggest we got that way on the backs of hard working Americans. The backs which have been broken by a government unwilling to tighten its’ belt.

At a time when our country is on the verge of a depression, our government continues to squander the people’s money and resources.

With unemployment rates higher than it has been in 30 or more years and a housing fiasco as well as rental space that has unprecedented vacancy rates or government continues to grow and grow.

They aren’t working longer hours. They aren’t helping the citizens in any substantial way.

We shouldn’t have to play the “shell game” with our own government.

After all, they are supposed to be the public servants.

Don’t look now but it would appear “we the people” have become the servants.


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USA occupied Iraq: Hell for gays

Since January of this year, with the publication of a United Nations report on the murders, torture, and harassment of GLBT Iraqis at the hands of religious extremists, the international community has known of the plight of gays and lesbians in Iraq; but no official help has come their way. Efforts to shield, shelter, and smuggle GLBT people out of American-occupied Iraq have been led by private groups and individuals.

A New York Times article cited the 2005 fatwa against gays and lesbians by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a Shiite, who instructed that GLBT people be hunted down and executed in the "worst, most severe way."Though al-Sistani officially called for the end of that fatwa in 2006, the killing has continued.

A deep irony about the situation is that America’s intervention in the country had initially been seen as a hopeful development by the country’s GLBT citizens, who lived in fear of the law but whose lives could usually run normally, as long as they were discreet about their relationships and gatherings. But unfortunately the way things were before was so much better than where we are now.

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