Let’s make a list of things the legislature should be working on–
1. Domestic policy
2. Foreign policy
3. Education
4. Immigration
Feel free to add yours to the list. You might notice Iraq is not listed. My belief is that the administration is responsible for International policy. Congress has oversight. Regardless of the responsibility, the legislature has enough to focus on, will you give me that?
Instead they have spent months, over the last few years, looking at performance enhancing drugs in sports. Why? Is it a national priority? They could pass a law which makes the use/sale/possession/transportation of any performance enhancing drug illegal. Then they could have the DEA out in ‘house to house’ searches. The DEA might as well be looking for human growth hormone, they are doing a terrible job with all the illegal street drugs.
Once armed with a search warrant for all houses, they might be able to catch some real drug dealers. They could call it “random drug testing.” Only difference is we won’t know when they are coming, and you can’t get some else’s house for them to search when they are at your front door.
In case you haven’t noticed, I am very cynical about drug testing in professional sports. Retired players have repeatedly told of how easy it was to beat the system. It is very similar to professional bodybuilding, if there is a will, there is a way to get huge on drugs and still be “clean”. Humans do not get that big (developed) without help. Anatomically it is just not normal.
The fans don’t care, they want to see steroid-sized humans trying to rip each others head off. The speed and size makes them seem larger than life and they are. The leagues do not care, because the fans do not care. As long as the check book balance says positive, life is good. Marketers love it because fans idolize the HGH freaks. Little do they know that with two hours intense exercise and $1,000 a month or so they could be “huge” too.
Let’s total this up– the fans don’t care and spend excessive amounts of money to follow and worship the HGH by-products. The league doesn’t care because they make a lot of money. Marketing loves it because the fans spend even more money on “stuff.” Who cares? (Play the sound track of the cavalry riding over the hill) Congress cares.
Why, I ask again? Because they do not want to take on tasks that are unpopular. If they work to sort out problems which really matter to us, they might not get re-elected. That is because to fix much of what is wrong means special interests will lose.
Most of what people think are the governments problems should be returned to the states to solve, and in turn they can pass some of it on to the local level.
Immigration is not one of those. Granted the local communities would do a better job than the federal government. Time to step up and protect the borders. Congress has the power to hold the administration’s feet to the fire, so to speak. The legislature can also put pressure on the administration to alter it’s foreign policy.
Education, you know how I feel about that. Return it to the local level, let us decide how well we want to educate our children. They are our children, we made the decision to bring them into the world. We must feed ,cloth, educate and discipline them. That is not any arm of the government’s responsibility. Education has become a shared community responsibility. Originally, children learned our trade or studied with a skilled person elsewhere.
The idea that one needs a college education to be a manager at Walmart is, is… well I won’t say it.
Time to let our legislators know they are not doing their jobs. And come next November, they can expect a rude awakening at the polls. They need to find the unemployment office, which for them is to become a lobbyist.
Let’s get serious about government.
