Unethical Behavior of Congressmen

On March 23, 2012 the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said it’s not what’s illegal for Congress to do but what’s legally allowed: nepotism – 82 Congressmen hired family members for their campaigns, some family members loan money to the running candidates and charge 18% interest for the loans, they funnel money to places where their family works and spend campaign money on pleasure trips and more.

The Politicususa article of August 3, 2012 pointed out that John Boehner asserted a few months ago that immediate approval of TransCanada’s KeystoneXL pipeline would create “hundreds-of-thousands of jobs”. This statement was found to be a blatant lie over and over again and with the sole intention of boosting profits for Canadian tar sand companies. In 2010 Boehner bought shares in 7 tar sand companies ahead of the Republican push for President Obama to give immediate approval of the pipeline’s construction but threat of a Securities Exchange Commission investigation and admission from TransCanada revealed a much lower number of jobs. Subsequently, Boehner admitted he lied to profit tar sand companies and backed off` his deceptive job number claims amid calls for his resignation. However, bad habits die hard and Boehner reverted to his 2-year claim that raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans is detrimental to job creators. After years of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, the so-called job creators have not shared the largesse of middle class taxpayers and created jobs and in fact are hoarding their money offshore brought to light by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Willard (Mitt) Romney’s Cayman Island and Swedish tax havens.

Republicans are well-practiced in the art of lying to influence public opinion for their favorite and profitable agendas. But, swearing allegiance to lobbyist Norquist whose sworn intent is “drowning the government” makes their determination clear; eliminate our constitutional form of government by defunding it.