WASTE OF TIME

Night before last I spent an hour on the phone on Congressman Jason Chaffetz community phone call. What a waste of time that was---he spent the first fifteen minutes saying they were going to repeal the health care law (done in the house but the Senate won't do it), eliminate the No Child Left Behind Law, Eliminate the Federal Department of Transportation, and eliminate the Federal Department of Education. The reason---Utah can do it better---yeah that is probably true but there ain't NO money in Utah.

He was going to personally see to it that rules limiting access and restrictions to minerals got changed, see to it that the US sells it's excess property ($19 billion in 50,000 excess buildings---this might be a good thing---where are they located?), change and enforce the laws dealing with illegal immigration and that allow illegal aliens to get medicaid, school, and food stamps, get the Federal Regulations out of the way so the economy can turn around, assure that the big fee increase (to $200/month) for Forest Service recreation residences gets reduced (so much for fixing the income), change the EPA rules to allow more development of our Natural Resources, fix it so we are oil independant and ethanol (using food for fuel) is not the answer, and rein in the EPA regarding use of coal for generating electricity,

I'm not saying that some or all of these aren't good things to do---but they ain't gonna happen. WHY---because everyone representing us in Congress and the Senate are set on making themselves look good for the next election. YUP---Republicans control the House and Democrats control the Senate so no bill is going to get approved without a lot of compromise. COMPROMISE---CAN'T DO THAT---I WOULD LOOK BAD TO MY CONSTITUENTS AND THE NEXT ELECTION IS ONLY TWO YEARS AWAY.

SSSSOOOOO----for the next two years you can expect---GRIDLOCK---nothing passing no one getting anything done---BEEN THERE DONE THAT. They can't even pass a budget for the Federal Government and are again running the Nation on a continuing resolution where you never really know if you have any money to manage your job or not so no single politician has to own up to where the cuts in budget are coming from.

So where are the leaders going to come from that will actually try to led us out of the mess we are in financially in this country. It won't come from all the LONE WOLVES out there that are going to make all these changes. It is gonna take good negotiations and superb understanding to get anything done---as long as both sides are running for the next election in two years we are in deep S#!*.

WE ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE AS A NATION---I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS---BUT CHEST POUNDING LEADERS TELLING US THEY WILL FIX EVERYTHING ISN'T IT---HOPE WE GET IT FIGURED OUT PRETTY SOON!!!! And unfortunately that is my $0.02.