Our “public servants” in Washington are fond of telling us about “complicated” politics.  Things are so complicated that the elites have to have a scheduling secretary to keep up with who is buying their supper. Ditto for the free lunches the struggling lawmakers eat.  One of the latest complicated situations arose last week.  Here is the Reader’s digest version of what happened.  You tell me how complicated it is.  

Senator Feinstein, D-CA, that stalwart defender of the public trust, asked for and got twenty-five BILLION American dollars delivered to the FDIC.  You know the FDIC.  It guarantees that our banks will never run out of money, banks being too big to fail and all.  It seems that her multi-millionaire husband had a vision that he should buy another big chunk of shares in one of his companies.  The purchase amounted to around ten million dollars.  Wouldn’t you know it, three days after Diane got that chunk of change for the FDIC, the agency awarded a contract to hubby’s company to help the FDIC banks dispose of  foreclosed properties. 

No competitive bidding for the contract.  No questions about which company might do the best job in working with the FDIC.  Mr. Feinstein’s company stands to make billions on the foreclosed properties as he will buy them for pennies on the dollar. 

Last year Diane decided to remove herself from a senate committee that had earmarked other lucrative contracts in the San Francisco area to another company owned by her husband.  She left the committee only after the shenanigans finally saw the light of day.  Who knows how many other such contracts she got for her husband?

The pols expect us to believe that all this is complicated and coincidental.  After all what husband would take time to discuss the family finances with his wife, especially if there was any chance of a conflict of interest between her obligations to “We the people…” and her personal business.

These examples illustrate how the pork spending (earmark anyone?) works in Washington.  The one hundred senators all do what the Feinsteins did.  They scratch each other’s backs in order to send money back home and then expect us to believe that it is all too complicated for us to understand.

A deal is a deal.  Their deals are killing us.  We are approaching the time when only half the population pays any taxes at all.  But what the heck, Georgia just got a ton of money to study blueberries.  Atta boy Saxby!  Movers and shakers keep on keeping on, the banks stay open and we have plenty of information about blueberries.  If America dies along the way, so be it.  It is all just too complicated.  Really?