The most useless organization in America: The US Congress

Congress has increasingly become more and more useless as the decades had gone by. With tragically ill-fated laws(the immigration act of 1965), the Patriot Act, the Stimulus package, the failed COVID packages that cannot even at this point be called covid packages(because supplementing failed social programs is the same as actually giving disposable income to people who LOST disposable income, by way of government fiat.)

But to be sure, they love to give thousands to billions to foreign countries and entities. No wonder then, that this body of Congress is generally disapproved of.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/207579/public-approval-rating-of-the-us-congress/

(I guess the public likes the little pittances that it gets this time, hence the bump up to 25%). It's a shame how low our standards have fallen. And they've fallen this way, because we've absolved Congress of all blame, all responsibility or even attention during the years 2016-2020.

But I'm different, I always called it the worst institution we've ever had and it's getting worse. Money will go to pet projects that have been tried and failed. A form of health care practice that didn't work, will be readmitted again.

In essence, the US Congress will do nothing new but will follow ideological ideals to the ground, regardless of whether we approve of them or need them or are any useful.

This mockery act where Congress acts as though it were disempowered, or overwhelmed by the prior Trump presidency is just that: a mockery of the US Citizen. It's also a plea that the citizen ignore their failure to the country.

We need new individuals(and preferably perhaps from new parties) in Congress. We need an entirely new, radical vision that actually heeds to the people, isn't knee jerked to their ideological emotional responses and can actually govern over a union.

Because what this is now? It's a joke, and the joke's on us.

 

I could not agree more with "Congress is useless" - Time to give the people what they want .. scrap Congress and Crown Carrot top as Leader - let him do what he wants with out those congressional clowns !

 

Problem is that a new Congress might even be more split and more ineffective than the one we have now.

Nobody ever said that a Representative government such as ours would be particularly inexpensive or efficient.

 

100% agree. Every politician in Washington DC is useless.

 

We need to get rid of the 2 party system. They are both ****, and neither represents my points of view.

 

Everyone agrees Congress is the problem, but almost nobody wants to do anything about it.

I never vote for the incumbent, but they get re-elected at a 90%+ rate.

"It's the other 532 that are the problem. My three are terrific!"

 

I started a topic on the fact that they are talking about $1,400 stimulus for us while they have added $1,400/WEEK for federal employees that have children not back in school. They can receive up to 15 WEEKS to a maximum of $21,000!!! It was basically ignored.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adaman...kids-out-of-school-up-to-21k/?sh=457265ad1223

I believe this is the biggest problem. Most people (not you, necessarily) want to complain about what is happening but overlook the things that are happening. We can't have it both ways.

 

That is the dangerous sentiment Repubs are fomenting. Their legislative obstruction of the majority's will has caused the self-fulfilling prophecy of government being incapable of making a positive difference in people's lives come true. Though clearly the Biden admin's successful federal coordination of the COVID response...........in contrast to Trump's abdication............could begin to restore the public's faith.

 

the political class has become an institution that looks out only for themselves. It wouldnt surprise me to find out that 90% of the issues that divide America today were engineered by both parties to keep us divided and to keep themselves in power and relevant.

 

Both parties are absolute garbage. two sides of the same coin.

 

It's not only not surprising, it's obvious.

 

These are more useless than Congress:

 

I've seen that false equivalence many times before.

 

The problem with the idea of 'radical vision' is that each existing side doesn't like the radicals on the other side of the aisle. And we could bring in new parties, but there would still be conservatives, liberals and progressives amongst the voting public. Right now, there is a 64% approval rate in America for raising the minimum wage - that should surely fall under the 'radical vision that actually heeds to the people', wouldn't it? But there is no appetite for it from the right. So who isn't listening to 'the people'?

 

I'm sure you believe democrats are as pure as the driven snow, and I hate to wreck your fantasy, but they are just scumbag politicians like all the rest. You just happen to like some of the issues they pretend to support.

 

And that is EXACTLY why both parties have turned us against eachother. Theyve made such a large percentage on both sides radicalized that it is near impossible to get rid of the cancer in washington DC, because we just cant get along anymore. seems their plans are working perfectly.

 

It seems that everyone HATES Congress, but everyone LOVES their own Congress (House) person:



Re-election rates are a little lower in the Senate, but still above 80%.

How is that disconnect possible?

 

Hey thats the best Congress that money can buy!....But only one side would like to fix it to help most Americans.....The other half is always lending a hand to the most rich, and large corporations!

Till two sides want it fixed, it will only get worse!

 

I think it is because that is who they hear from the most, so they get to hear “their” politician tell his story and point the blame back on all the other politicians. They’re all conmen, and good at their profession.

 

Lol, I think you just described both parties.

 

Exactly right. Based on this forum, you'd think everyone spends their day worrying endlessly about what things other people do. The reality is so much different.


This is what it's like out there in the real world.

 

Absolutely!

 

Actually, I don't. It's just factually inaccurate to say, for example, 100 lies is the same as 1 lie.

 

Nothing beats a government job whether it be federal state county local municipal or even military they have the best pension plans and health care benefits. Take police and many fire departments or the military where you can retire with full benefits after only 25 years service where most of us in private employ, if we are lucky enough to have a pension plan, have to work until minimum age 55 to collect a reduced benefit.

 

Some things stem from economic misinformation(seems to be the word/flavor of the year so let's go with that.). Approximately less than 5% of Americans receive the minimum wage. So what do they hear when they see the words "raise the minimum wage:". They think that it means THEIR wages will rise, but actually it causes a stagnation in wages.

We'd be better served to increase wages across all sectors, and then the minimum wage will gradually rise naturally. We need to target the middle class, not the top or the bottom.

It's neither trickle-up or trickle-down, if I were to give my economic thesis a nickname it's "stabilizing market/economic flow"