CONGRESS’ SORRY PARTY

This post from time to time will share with you those members of Congress who have earned an honorary ‘hypocrite’ membership in the Sorry Party of Congress.

For example, Congressman Paul Ryan who currently and over the years proposed and passed several Congressional budgets which decimated safety net programs like social security and medicare.  The irony is that Congressman Ryan himself and his family were the recipients of survivor’s benefits and aid to dependent children provided by social security.  Currently members of his family are recipients of medicare benefits.  How short a memory some aid recipients have!

Congress likes to create crisis from solvable problems and in doing so, provides political theater and currency. Frequently there are simple solutions, such as in the case of social security solvency, it can be resolved by changing the current contribution cap of $114,000 to $250,000 and increasing the contribution percentage by 1% over time. Solving medicare can be achieved by instituting a single payer program and lowering the eligibility age in five year increments over time.  A healthier public lowers health care cost.

Other candidates for the Congressional Sorry Party are Representatives Fincher (TN), LaMalfa (CA), and Noem (SD) who voted to cut food programs for kids, seniors and low income households in the farm bill (HR 2642) while adding a 62% insurance subsidy to their farming windfalls since 1995 of over $4.5, $1.7 and $.5 million, respectively. Of course they are not alone, there are over 15 members of Congress who have benefitted over the years from the subsidies contained in the farm bills.

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There is another simple solution for transparency.  Every Member of Congress, personally, by family,or through an entity in which they have an interest becomes a beneficiary of the legislation they are voting upon, must declare they are a “benefit recipient”.  Current legislation does not contain any disclosure or transparency information.