Congress Should be Charged

Congress Should be Charged with Treason!
By Diane Williams

I was watching the Lobbying Rule Changes on C-SPAN on 3/9/06. Some of the lobbyists featured were religious leaders, cultural leaders, and Aspen Institutes Public Leaders. It doesn’t matter who the lobbyists are as long as our representatives remember to represent the citizens when drawing up legislation and statues. One representative said they needed to prove to the American citizens that they were not corrupt. I say the way our representatives prove to us the American Citizens that they are not corrupt is by deleting all the laws that makes it legal for businesses to extort service fees and service charges from the American citizens. The bottom line, we the citizens only wish to pay only for the service we receive. If businesses, banks, courts schools and ect. need more money to honor the contract we as citizens have with them then they should put that amount on the total cost of the service package. I for one am tired of paying fees and service charges for on time payments. If I have 30 days to pay a bill then I should not have to pay service fees for paying two payments within 30 days. Look at your phone bill readers. I looked at mine and I saw I was being charged a fee to support conservation, the hard of hearing, the blind; you name it I was paying a fee for it. This is not right America.

I have looked at all my personal bills; will my readers please look at all your personal bills too? I have now realized that we, the American citizens, economic problems are coming from our legislators. According to 1 Kings Chapter 12, there was a King who over whelmed the citizens of Israel with taxes and fees to the point that they rejected him and went into rebellion against him. The Lord Jesus Christ stated in the Bible that “the poor you will have with you always.” (Matthew 26v11) I do not claim to be poor at this point. However, I understand that because of too much legislation from our representatives authorizing businesses in America to charge extra fees and service charges on to the service Americans already pay for; will one day cause me along with other working people on a fixed income to become poor. (Proverbs 19 v 22)