Greg Awtry

I always look forward to this time of the year, between Thanksgiving and New Years. As a political junkie, this is the time I abstain from writing about politics to lower my frustration and blood pressure to focus on family and friends. So here is my “no politics” column for today.

I am not going to write about our national debt of $38 trillion dollars or the fact Congress is borrowing $3.8 million dollars a minute, day and night, 24 hours of every day. They don’t care. Why should I?

I am not going to write about the $1 trillion dollars Congress will spend this year just paying the interest on the debt they don’t care about. After all, that’s only $2 million dollars a minute, so I am not going to waste another minute thinking about it. They don’t either.

I am not going to write about Social Security going insolvent in eight years. Congress has seen this fiscal calamity coming for decades, yet does nothing about it, so if they don’t think about, why should I?

I am not going to write about the last 30 years Congress has failed to submit a budget on time. I just don’t have the time to write about it and obviously it wouldn’t help if I did.

I am not going to write about Congress closing our government down for 43 days because they wouldn’t listen to each other. So why should I write about their partisan deafness disability because they don’t listen to us anyway.

I am not going to write about the expiring health care subsidies which will end on December 31, causing our insurance rates to explode simply because they (Congress) passed the bill in the first place that set December 31 as the expiration date. If they can’t live with their own laws, why bother?

I am not going to write about Trump’s tariffs because Congress, which has the sole power to impose tariffs unless national security is at risk, doesn’t care enough about ignoring their responsibility, so I will ignore it too.

I am not going to write about the fact only 15 percent of Americans approve of Congress’s job performance, or the fact we re-elect 97 percent of the incumbents because they all know they can screw up and keep their jobs at the same time. Heck, if they were college football coaches they would all be fired by now anyway.

I am not going to write about Congress’s new campaigning buzzword, “affordability” because we all know we are paying more than what things are really worth. We are used to it. We pay Congressional salaries of $100 million a year, and there is no way they are worth it.

Ahh, it feels so good to take a break from writing about Congress’s complete and utter dysfunction.

My next political column will be after the first of the year. It’s going to be about all the successes Congress has achieved this year on our behalf. I have been thinking about it for some time and am coming up empty. I need your help. Let me know what you think Congress did very well this year. And speaking of next year, let me know if you plan on voting for your current Congressional Representatives and Senators, or if you are fed up with their childish partisan playground games. We are not their playground. You a can email me at gregawtry@awtry.com