OPINION:
It’s sickening to watch the pork factory in Congress. We have a pandemic with genuine life-and-death consequences, and the speaker of the House injects pork into a bill destined for relief. Abuse doesn’t get much worse than this, but without question, this speaker will find a way (“Nancy Pelosi, the real coronavirus fiddler,” Web, March 31).
Pork used to be a dirty word in Washington but today it’s become the preferred method of robbery. It’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, the 2020 version. Every bill gets crammed full of pork that has nothing to do with the beef of the legislation. It’s so bad now that the beef in any legislation is a byproduct of the pork.
Is there an honest politician on either side who will introduce a bill that prohibits tag-along spending? A pork-free diet in D.C. would go a long way toward getting a balanced budget. Of course, that’s quite a statement considering there is no budget. Congress abandoned any responsibility to budgets years ago and the mandate isn’t even discussed anymore.
If they need help authoring such a bill, just give me five minutes. It really is that simple. If we can stop the train-robbing “Wild Bunch” of the 1800s, we can stop the looting today. It’s just a different criminal.
Give us legislation that puts a lid on the cookie jar.
STEPHEN MOUNGELIS
Mt. Airy, Md.
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