Apathy! It's going to be our doom

$990,000,000.

It’s bigger than it looks at first glance: Nine hundred and ninety million dollars.

That’s your money going bye-bye. It’s not coming back unless a whole herd of constituents in every state and every congressional district get wall-eyed mad and demand their elected leaders stop the uncontrolled looting of the U.S. Treasury.

That’s not going to happen, unfortunately. Because the electorate has become sheep for those they elect.

$990,000,000.

That’s the increase that both houses of Congress voted to give themselves for operate their respective offices: $660,000,000 in the House, $430,000,000 in the Senate.

Yikes! What are our public serpents doing? Is "common sense" no longer a commodity in government? Our elected leaders already get millions to run their offices, now they have voted themselves an increase, eight percent in the House and six percent in the Senate. (It’s not that the senators are more frugal, their base stipend is larger, so the percentage adds up to ever more bucks per official.)

Doesn’t anyone care anymore? Have we all become so anesthetized by Gummit Gone Wild! that we just don't care?

If you do care, set up a hue and cry (at the very least, manage a small “hue”) and tell your elected representative and senators what you think of the shameful way they are spending your money.

That’s the whole point, you know: It’s your money. Or have you forgotten that small fact?