This guy poses a few questions you might enjoy chewing on.  He is Charlie Reese. He recently wrote his last column for the Orlando Sentinel.

Question: If both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are against deficits, why do we have deficits?  If all politicians are against inflation and high taxes, why do we have them?

Who writes the tax code?  Congress does.  Who sets fiscal policy? Congress does.  Who are responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country? The members of Congress are.

“I cannot think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people,” he writes. “When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.”

Charlie suggests that if the tax code is unfair, it is because the members of Congress want it to be unfair.

He suggests that if the budget is in the red, it is because they want it to be in the red.  If our soldiers are in Iraq and Afghanistan it is because they want them there.

He reminds us that members of Congress do not receive Social Security. They are on an elite retirement plan that is not available to the people. Why is that? Because they want it that way.