Does Congress Have Nothing Else To Do?
A new study just came out looking at how Congress is spending taxpayer money. The funny thing is, the study looks at pork spending. While I must admit, sometimes pork spending is crazy, right now however I’m more concerned about what Congress is doing to fill their time while on Capital Hill.
Why are they spending so much time talking with athletes about steroids and HGH use? I don’t get this at all. While I am personally appauld at the use of such drugs in baseball, or any other sport, I’m amazed at how much time Congress is spending talking about this. What can they do? Are they a court of law? Will the athletes be brought up on charges because of some silly Congressional hearing? I don’t think so. If there’s an issue here of perjury, send the whole thing to the court system, not the political system. To me this seems like nothing more than political grandstanding as politicians line up on either side of the aisle trying to flex their muscles all in the interest of making sure they garner the all important high ratings in the public opinion polls so they can find themselves re-elected.
I ask you this simply question — Did you elect your politicians to office so they can get autographs of famous sports figures?
Give me a break guys. Do you have nothing better to do with your time? Lets see, we have a shakey economy, terrorists trying to figure out how to bomb us and a wealth of many other more pressing issues than getting caught up in a “he said, no he said” discussion about who’s telling a lie and who’s telling the truth.
Maybe it’s time to put some of our politicians in the hot seat and ask them to explain why they’re wasting our money, and valuable time talking about steroids use.
Just my two cents,
Dr. Rus
