Congress became aware of our problems with oil dependency in the 1970’s and did nothing except prevent oil exploration,off-shore drilling, prevent building new refineries, expanding nuclear energy, increasing the use of clean coal for electrical production…etc.

Congress rewrote immigration law during the Reagan amnesty, but refused to provide oversight to ensure enforcement as required by the Oversight Manual that they also wrote.

Congress has known for 20 years that eventually social security, medicare and medicade would eventually destroy our economy. Now over 60% of government spending goes the those entitlement programs. The actual annual is equal to the Gross National Product of Canada which rank 13 internationally.

Even the subprime mortgage debacle has the fingerprints of government on it. They press lending institutions to make loans to individuals of low income through a quota system. It has only been a few years ago that Fannie Mae had a similars scandal of overstating their books. That problem cost cost the shareholders billions, and resulted in a $400 million dollar fine.

The problem with government is that career politicians place their careers ahead of doing the peoples work, and the only way to fix it is to establish term limits.