Hardly a day goes by that Congressional hypocrisy is not on display. It seems it knows no bounds as these modern-day reverse Robin Hoods are ravaging the upper and lower middle-class and filling the already bulging pockets of their benefactors with riches even beyond their wildest dreams.

Many want to blame only "Big Business" and yes they are greedy, self-centered, and only interested in profits. But that is sort of to be expected. It's up to the governments that created these purely legislated entities to keep them reined in for the public good.

Make no mistake, it is the local and state governments and Congress that are responsible for what has happened to the incredible shrinking Middle Class. The public has elected these self-serving charlatans who have been content to sit back and let President George W. and Obama take the blame for both their wrong-way actions and inaction, not that Bush and Obama don't share part of the blame.

Things Are Not Tough All Over

While corporate and business profits have surged and productivity has soared, worker's benefits have been ignored. The poor and the middle class have only been able to keep up by putting Mama to work and maxing-out their credit cards in order to send Junior to college.

Two Critics of Government Spending Are Forcing The Army To Build Tanks It Doesn’t Want

THINK PROGRESS - Congress is forcing the Army to spend nearly half a billion dollars building tanks that Army officials insist they don’t want, with money they say could be better spent elsewhere, according to a new report from the AP.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) are the two members of congress at the helm of the effort to spend $436 million on upgrading the Abrams tank, “a weapon the experts explicitly say is not needed.” The reason? Both represent Ohio, home to the nation’s only tank manufacturing plant, which would profit from the money.

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It will be hard for American Democracy to return from the grips of "corporate fascism" now that these legislative maggots have embedded themselves in its dying body, but it must be accomplished at the ballot box if a robust civilization is to return to America.

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Forced Tank Spending

Congress allocates millions of tax dollars to upgrade the Abrams tank, but General Raymond Odierno says the Army doesn't need or want it.