If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.
The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Congress is not an ATM.
Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.