Politics and Government

I am mostly conservative. I understand that there is a role for government, but I do not think the role should be what it currently is.  Taking money from people who have worked hard to obtain it so it can be given to be people who have either made bad choices or just do not want to work is not a good practice.  I do not believe it is the government's role to try and lift people up out of their so called poverty.  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once said he did not know he grew up poor until someone told him he did.  Some people may have more than others, but in my opinion this is because some people have chosen to either do without or to do more.  You should not sit and wait for someone to do something for you.  Just because you may not make much money does not necessarily make you poor.  The word "poor" is being misused by opportunists to try and push an agenda and gather power.

With that said, I am rather ticked off with politicians right now, especially Rep. Charlie Rangel.  Here is a guy who has been caught not paying rent for his offices even though he should have known, taking trips that were paid for by corporate interests and then lying and still saying that he is an upstanding citizen.  He may at one time been a very honest person, but because he has been in DC to long I do not think the word "honesty" is in his vocabulary or any other politicians.  Sadly former Rep, Dan Rostenkowski died today and even he said that what he did did not break the law.  The man was hiring people to do work at this personal home and billing them to the taxpayers.  You can not tell me he did not know what he was doing was wrong.  The same argument goes for Rangel, you can not tell me he did not know what he was doing was wrong.  Also sadly Sen. Ted Stevens was killed this week.  He also was convicted of a crime even though a judge did throw out the conviction do to prosecutorial misconduct.  He did not vacate the verdict.  All of them were intentionally cheating the taxpayers.

Most Politicians in DC are crooks in my opinion.  Few of them should be entrusted with serving the people.  Most are up there solely to line their pocket and for the perks that come with the job.  Someone once said that cynicism is easy, but in this case cynicism is the only thing we have when too many people are unwilling to educate themselves on the candidates and keep voting them back.