A whole lot of us, including me, are officially unemployed. If we are lucky, we can collect unemployment benefits each week -- welfare. But our do-mostly-nothing Congress members each gets paid a minimum of $174,000 per year and has access to what is called the "Cadillac" of health care insurance. I have absolutely no health insurance. It's triage for me and my two cats. Which ailment do we take care of out of my shrinking pocket at this particular time? Or do we resort to chicken soup and Vicks and meditation and dipping our toes in healing waters and other home remedies?
Official unemployment is in the low double digits (10%?); the unofficial, we know, is much higher.Why doesn't Congress know what we know and DO SOMETHING? Well, probably because they have those "Cadillac" options.
The summit meeting the President recently hosted proved that politics trumps all. Even as the President bends over backwards to come up with some kind of compromise that Republicans and nervous Democrats can agree to, they are sitting on their hands while looking to the possibilities of their prospects in November elections.
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