Congress And Bureaucracy

I watched a televised hearing on C-SPAN today featuring among others, Rep Kevin Brady, who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee in Congress. The meeting was about America's “Economic Recovery Options” and Congress getting its own financial house in order.

Items were discussed such as the trust fund for repairing the nation's infrastructure basically being broke. David Mongan, the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers confirmed it.

The options Brady discussed regarding economic recovery was basically sound. Therefore, why is it so difficult for Congress to actually put ideas in motion. More and more it becomes apparent the current Congress is not working well together.

You mean to tell me a fruitless, expensive war, wasting money is better than America not going broke, having to discuss borrowing money to repair roads and bridges and refusing states financial aid, because the financing can't stretch. That's ridiculous.

I’m not naïve. I know how governments work, but I also know throughout history in times of extraordinary crisis, numerous world governments were able to put their differences aside to save their respective nations. But the current White House and Congress, simply refuse.

Instead of killing off Iraqi men, women, children, babies and grandparents for their oil, that is not the property of the U.S. government, why not explore America’s natural resources.

I saw a special on CBN about coal. It stated America has the greatest coal reserves in the world that can be converted into fuel, headquartered in Virginia. According to the news piece, Africa has been safely converting coal into fuel for a decade and it has not ravaged their environment.

Professionals in the field believe they can have a U.S. plant up and running in Virginia in two years. It would pay for itself, create new jobs and reduce America’s spending on foreign oil.