THERE are at least 2 things that trouble me concerning the growing number of politicians who get caught cheating on their marriages and their jobs; one is that they actually get to have any choice in the matter of whether or not to resign and the other is in most if not all cases, they are having these affairs on our dime.
When your average spouse in the “real world” gets caught cheating, having an affair or even just planning one it usually leads to divorce-end of conversation. The offending spouse does not get to refuse the divorce so why does a public employee like Weiner have any say so whatsoever in whether or not to lose his office?
The other really offensive piece to me is that most, if not all of the covert promiscuity of our officials involve the use of our tax dollars. ”Honey, I’m going to be working late at the office tonight so don’t wait up for me.” Thank you Mr. Clinton.
Most of us who get caught screwing around on the job get fired or at the least get docked pay and given a last warning. Most of us who get caught using other peoples money for our own selfish purposes are accused of stealing and are arrested and sent to trial and then prison. So how come when Senator Mark Sanford of S. Carolina got busted not only for cheating (on the job) but for using public monies to fund his flights to S. America, his hotel rooms, and other seduction expenses he was not arrested?
Why are politicians seemingly exempt from breaking the laws and rules that the rest of us ordinary folk would go to jail for? Why do they have any voice at all in whether or not to resign from their job?
It’s real simple to my way of thinking. I am Weiner’s boss. I pay his salary. Mr. Weiner, you screwed up. You are now fired!
What’s that? Oh, you were texting and sex chatting on company time? In that case you are fired and fined x amount of dollars paid to you for doing a job that you weren’t doing. Don’t do the crime if you can’t pay your dime and do the time.
Enough is enough, is it not people? Why do we put up with this type of behavior? Is it because half of us are guilty of the same behaviors and their is a part of us that justifies and acquits us of any wrong doing? Hmmmm?
Tune in next week for more on the way you and I support political corruption in this Proud Land of Liberty and Justice for All....
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