Congress: Do the Job or Resign. Compromise is American

A boatload of us Got SOAKED today riding on "The Beast" speedboat out of Kemah -

It felt good to get a welcome break from the nonsense in DC. Instead I we got a symbolic soaking on a high speed run, with some nice turns. Yet those in front who weren't under cover were being microfilmed by the solar oven. Those in front of the boat usually stay dry. Those in back get soaked.

I was happily seated in the back of the beast...:). Even Tropical Storm "Don" failed to give us any real rain! Our series of historic record breaking temperatures continue and yet people don't realize how serious this is. Odessa could be totally out of water by this September (2011!). Water will be as precious as gold, more valuable than oil when you don't have any.

After riding "The Beast" I had to go to the grocery store, my hair and clothes still dripping as though i had been through a carwash. LOL. Yet I felt even that was a welcome break from the nutters in Congress who would jeopardize America's (and Americans) credit for the first time in its history? It's been raised 75 times since 1962, including 7 times under President Bush whose tax cuts for the rich, Plan D and unpaid for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan created our ongoing 40% shortfall in revenues that has required this borrowing. His breaks for the rich cost taxpayers nearly $1 trillion dollars in lost revenue. These are Bush/GOP debts requiring an increase in the debt ceiling, not President Obama's!

So far President Obama's biggest mistake was not using more of the stimulus funding on infrastructure construction for our crumbling bridges and roads, etc. since it would have created a ton of instant, long term jobs. Tax cuts for unemployed people are meaningless.

Then the President should push Congress for a high tech education plan to upgrade American skills for the 3 million jobs Americans are not qualified to fill because they don't have the training. Recycling people back into higher qualified jobs makes sense instead of shipping them overseas or having to ask foreigners to fill them because Americans cant, right?

This plan will result in higher standards of living for Americans and an America better qualified to compete with its people skills in the global, high tech 21 century. We will need to do so to win it. Failing to invest in our education and peoples' skills will be our undoing in the one thing left that we can do to keep up becoming another 'has been' country that sees a rich, high tech China do the things our American forefathers did, as this generation lets our lead slip away after squandering its wealth in the first decade of this crucial century.

Now the mistake is not re-investing in America, by pushing for an infrastructure bank as part of our Agenda for Greatness - creating jobs now and for the future. We need to get the conversation on job creation not moronic fights over raising debt ceilings caused by the party that currently has the majority in the House.

It was this same bunch who created the debt they now don't want to pay for, even if it wrecks America's credit.

It should be required that Congressional checks the FIRST withheld for failure to do their jobs. Compromise is an AMERICAN tradition.

Our Congress reps need to do their jobs and do that, or resign. A crew whose incompetence threatens to put the ship up on the financial rocks does not deserve to be hired, but fired and removed from duty.

We have seen what happens with a stupid crew: Think Exxon Valdez.