Hmmm! What Part Of Government Wastes The Most?

Well, first there was the Simpson-Bowles committee, then two others, now there's the Super Committee. What they've all been trying to accomplish is to figure a way out of our debt and deficit troubles. The Democrats want some cuts to entitlements coupled with revenue increases. The Republicans believe it can be resolved with cuts alone. No mater what you think, we do need to make cuts in our spending. As long as pretty much everybody agrees on that issue, let's look at ways to cut and where there is the most waste. Someplace where the government spends far too much money and accomplishes far too little good for the people. Of course there's waste in every area of government from new ships and airplanes for the Defense Dept that they don't need or want, to over-regulation of energy and many other areas. But to make it easy and to finally get started, we need to pick the one area that personifies the waste. My vote goes to congress. Nowhere else are there more highly paid nincompoops than Congress. they get paid a fairly good wage for very little work, they get the best set of benefits of anyone in the country. And should they get defeated in an election, they are warmly welcomed with even higher wages by lobbying firms to lobby the same folks they schmoozed with in the halls of Congress. They also have the opportunity to go on speaking tours where they can make even more. Then of course, there's the ever popular book writing trade where they can tell the world how great they really are and what a terrific job they did while in office. Yep, there's no getting around it, the country would be far better off without all the professional politicians. Even elections would be cheaper without them. The only problem is that we would still need some folks to lead us. Maybe we could take a cue from our founding fathers  who weren't professional politicians.They  were citizen leaders who came together to do a job and then went home and back to their jobs.