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To the editor:
Has anyone wondered before or after the election why any one person or group of individuals would spend over $100 million to elect a person to a job that pays $174,000 per year?
Talk about the high price of gas and groceries -- the price of government jobs is unbelievable! This is a major problem in today's government.
There is no accountability. No one in government can add or subtract. It's no wonder we can't have a balanced budget, no one in government knows the real value of a dollar.
The people over at campaign headquarters and the television stations know the value. Not to mention every lobbying low life waiting to cash in on their quid pro quo.
America's economy has become an item to be bought and sold. The real buyers are every citizen that can't see the forest for the trees. We cannot help ourselves because part of the products and services we buy everyday go to buying elections, via company profits.
The influence of our elected officials has enormous economic value. This is why so many in Congress enter politics as average income earners and become millionaires (chicken feed). The real money is reserved for those who put them in Congress.
The prices we pay (as taxpayers) for drugs or the necessities of life and the regulations that force compliance generates the real mountains of money. All the while those in Congress can buy stock based on the outcome of their decisions. It's a no brainer.
No matter if you see this through a blue lens or a red one the outcome is the same. The common man takes it on the chin.
You could say big government is the right direction to go. Let's legislate our way out of this (that is how we got here). Or you could say big business is the only way (the problem here is, money is the only motivator). The "he's got more than me syndrome" is real.
The problem is who doesn't like money? The want of money is truly the root of all evil. It will end up sending all taxpayers to the poor house.
Remember those in Congress love money and power more than you or our Republic.
Michael C. Spahr
Lewistown