[TheRealThing]

Now, if you want to talk about legislators deserving of the people's contempt, we could start with the architect of the government spurred housing bubble, Rep Barney Frank (D) Mass and his equally complicitous runnin buddy Senator Chris Dodd (D) Conn. Dodd was responsible for fanning the flames with his role as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd proposed a program in June 2008 that would assist troubled sub-prime mortgage lenders such as Countrywide Financial in the wake of the United States housing bubble's collapse. Frank, in 2003, while the ranking minority member on the Financial Services Committee, opposed a Bush administration proposal, in response to accounting scandals, for transferring oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to a new agency that would be created within the Treasury Department. The proposal, supported by the head of Fannie Mae, reflected the administration's belief that Congress "neither has the tools, nor the stature" for adequate oversight. Frank stated, "These two entities ...are not facing any kind of financial crisis ... The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing [Wiki]

These geniuses then were allowed to author the Dodd-Frank legislation which has since proven to present perilous waters to navigate, for American businesses. According to findings of the Cato Institute, the approved legislation known as Dodd-Frank, was only a framework for as many as 1200 new rules and regulations to be launched from. To date, only about 300 have gone through the approval process. It takes 24 million man hours a year to manage only 200 of those rules and regs. Doing the math we see we are potentially staring at 144 million man hours a year just to administrate whatever is coming our way through this open ended legislation. Two thirds of the the rules and regs haven't even been dreamed up yet.

No wonder American industry is in idle right now. Between just two nighmare pieces of legislation, ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank, managers no longer have a way to predict business models. But, McConnell is the butt of jokes coming from the left. Republicans are the problem and Dems are our saviors if you ask them. After watching America turn her back on a man of tremendous integrity and a proven record of public service, a true patriot in the person of Mitt Romney, I would say it's safe to say perilous times are upon us. I had hoped the people had awakened during the last election cycle, sadly I now believe the majority has instead chosen to loot the US treasury with the help of glassy eyed liberal democrats. 2014 is new line in the sand, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" Patrick Henry