10.13
So as I sit here at my job working to provide a middle-class living for my wife and I, I find myself doing check after check to ensure I am doing a quality job as expected by my employer. And then I start to wonder what kind of expectations other types of businesses put on their employees. Here is what came to mind:
-Fast food employees are expected to know that the burger goes inside the bun
-Accountants are expected to know how to add
-School bus drivers must know where to pick up the kids
-Prostitutes must know how much to give their pimps
-Surgeons need to know the body parts so they dont remove a lung instead of a finger
And so on and so on until I came to our Congress people……. Especially the ones in this Senate Finance Committee we keep hearing about. Now reading the title ( say it again to yourself a few times ), one would think that these people would be good at, oh I dont know, finances? But as these people get ready to vote on their 829 billion ( $829,000,000,000) dollar bill, they admit that they dont know how this thing will effect everyone.
Wait? What?
You dont know what it will do to premiums for those who already have insurance? You cant show exactly where the money will come from? You dont know how it will hit the self-employed, i.e. small business owners? And so on and so on…
Now apply this lack of knowledge to the scenarios above or to your job. How would you justify your incompetence to your employer? How would you even keep your job?
My friends, we are being given a sub-standard Congressional performance and they do not seem to care. They seem to think that the Beltway Gang only answers to the Beltway Gang and that voters are just an election year obligation. It doesn’t matter if you support the health care reform or not, you should still expect your elected officials to do their jobs, read the bills and know the impact of their actions.
