"Branches of Government" vs "Family Trees"

Somebody in Albany needs to explain to our elected officials that the term "branches of government" does not give them the right to treat their offices as family trees to employ their relatives.

But this is not going to happen because instead of cleaning house and kicking their buts out we send them right back in and give them bigger positions of authority.

And we only have ourselves to blame.

We blindly follow party lines and now have governments at every level that would even embarrass the Cincinnati Bengals.

It doesn't matter if the candidate is a thief, a liar or in some cases a convicted felon as long as he or she is my party's candidate they get my vote.

When is the madness going to stop?

When candidates run and there are large grass root efforts supporting them they beat their chests and say this is what Democracy is all about.

Letting the people be heard.

When the same people protest policy they are ignored or even worse branded puppets of that every present right or left wing conspiracy.

Government spends what they don't have.

They build what we don't need.

And now the government is into everything from banking to selling cars.

Speaking of selling cars I have met some used car salesmen who wouldn't steep to the level of some of these people running our government.

But we keep sending them back.

Am I the only one who thinks that our government is starting to look like the NBA or NHL the revolving door of hiring just recycles the same old coaches no matter how bad their records are?

If the last few months have shown anything it is that you spending money does not necessarily bring about change.

The bankers are still getting their bonuses.

There is more pork in Washington than on a pig farm. (so much with doing away with earmarks)

And I haven't seen too many lobbyists on the unemployment line.

But we allow it to continue.

And the only way to make it stop is for us to make intelligent decisions when we enter the voting booth.

For the candidates are the only ones enjoying their political parties.

Once they are elected too many of them forget to let the rest of us enjoy the benefits.

The benefits of a government "of the people" "by the people" and "for the people"

Cash For Clunkers and Other Items

I don’t know what the big deal is about the Cash for Clunkers Program.



It appears to me that we have had a Cash for Clunkers Program for as long as I can remember.



Year after year billions of dollars are contributed to campaigns and nine out of ten times we wind up with clunkers.



At least with the car program you can turn in your clunker and get something back.



With our elected officials once they are in we are stuck with them for at least four years even if they don’t show up for work.



One only has to look at Albany over the past six months to see what a bad joke this whole process has become.



Or take a peak across the river in New Jersey where it appears that more elected officials go to jail than go to work.



Maybe they should just move the Legislature to Rahway Prison and just cut out the middle man.



Save us some time and the taxpayers some money.



Speaking of money the federal government continues to allow bailed out banks to pay their execs millions in bonuses.



I guess this could be considered Cash for Clunkers II



The banks and financial institutions insist they need to pay these bonuses to keep the top financial minds in their executive offices.



The same execs that bankrupted them in the first place.



And it appears that more and more of these execs are taking these bonuses and walking out the door shortly after anyway.



And it appears that the only thing being stimulated by these programs is the amount of money being spent by the federal government.



They are more concerned about bailing out businesses then they are about social security.



But why not? They are not in the social security program anyway so why should they care.



Same thing with health care, they want to spend billions on this new program but asked if as elected officials they would be participating in it and we get a responding no comment.



Sometimes silence speaks volumes.



And as more and more people get further into debt, maxing out their credit cards more and more states are turning to legalized gambling instead of doing something about the usury laws that allow these credit card companies to treat their customers worse then some loan sharks.



And speaking of gambling New York cannot even do that right.



Illegal bookies have never had a problem turning a profit but we have OTB on the verge of bankruptcy. Can anybody say bailout?



Only in New York.



To be continued…….