The shameful many

"In my many years I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress." Can you believe this observation is as old as the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams? Yet nothing’s changed. In America, the downfall process has been gradual. One politician without common sense has multiplied into many along with two plus two hundred greedy attorneys-defenders to eventually constitute a bi-partisan, bloviating Congress bent on doing good at the expense of the tax-paying public. To obtain 1 gallon of ethanol fuel, 1700 gallons of water are required along with 51 cents of tax credits. Is this moral and environmental inefficiency justifiable? No way. In addition, even with the food supply at the stage of crisis in some countries, crop production continues to be diverted to shameful ends. Subsidized waste of nature’s greatest liquid treasure would have appalled Adams, but it sure doesn’t scandalize our Congressional nitwits today.