The 114th Congress was sworn in on Tuesday January 6, 2015 and from the looks of things it appears not much will change. This year we can anticipate a continuing move toward Corporatism at the expense of the citizenry. The infatuation with Big Business coupled with the disdain for governance and the commonwealth will serve to further the expanding erosion of individual wellbeing rights and freedoms.
True to form the first peace of legislation introduced in the new Congress was a bill to further restrict reproductive rights. Now our Nation faces many challenges, blood is literally running in the streets, segments of our society harbor deep and well founded mistrust of one another, talk of nullification emanates from State Capitols and our Courts have been politicized, one must therefore wonder in this environment what would motivate a legislative body to this end a desire to unite or divide?
Coupled with the back door procedural attack that has been perpetrated upon Social Security, which in effect pits those who receive Social Security Retirement benefits against those who receive Social Security Disability benefits designed to create a war amongst the elderly and disabled over an ever shrinking benefit; it is clear that we are being led once again on the path of division not unification.
In Florida the Legislative session starts in March but yesterday the legislators where in Tallahassee measuring the drapes. One has to wonder why bother it's the same old ideology.
At his inauguration our Governor promised to both cut taxes by a billion dollars and increase spending on education by a billion dollars. This is what I call a Scottism, which is when you say something that is so obviously and blatantly untrue that there is no foundation in reality to measure it against. Assertions made in a vacuum where reality does not exist.
Rick Scott could get up in the morning and declare that the sun rose in the west and set in the east without blinking an eye. There was a time when prevarication was considered a sin and if you were caught lying it would cost you your political career. It now appears that the lie has been elevated to an art form and that governing is nothing more than political theatre.
So here we go another year another opportunity for our legislators to prove themselves worthy of the challenge of governing this great Nation and State. I pray that they are inspired by their positions, and that they rise to meet the grandeur of the offices that they hold as opposed to by their deeds further diminish our trust in government. It's going to be an interesting year.
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