Notes From Jon

I think one of the reasons I’ve taken so long to get a post up (other than just the simple fact that I’m a busy person, but that’s no different from anyone else) is that I’m always waiting to make some profound statement. The problem is, those don’t come along very often. And when they do, they’re hard to articulate in a short amount of time (see some of the VERY long posts below).

So maybe I ought to just start posting when I’ve got five minutes to write something. Like today.

This morning, I had an email in my inbox about how corrupt congress is (this e-mail, by the way, has been going around for a several years, and the numbers haven’t changed… hmmm). I looked around on the web, and found some sources that are a little more respectable in their approach. I even saw a blurb on CNN about this as I sat in the breakfast room at the hotel this morning. It’s all people are talking about - congress is corrupt.

OK… is anyone surprised by this? Big revelation here. Let’s see, we live in a democratic society and elect people who represent us - not just in voice, but who literally represent us in lawmaking and policy. Should we be surprised that they, on the whole, ACT like us too? I imagine if you took some of those statistics (the real ones, not the made-up ones), and expanded them to a national level, we’d find that congress pretty accurately represents who we are as a people.

We ELECTED these people, put them on the ballot and put them in office. If they do something good, everyone’s saying, “Oh yeah, I voted for him.” But suddenly, it’s not anyone’s fault when the skeletons come out of the closet.

It’s just funny to me. I don’t know why.

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