ative branches continually infringe upon some of the laws that they themselves legislate. Take for instance, the 1992 banking scandal in the House of Representatives. In a three-year period, 355 members of Congress wrote 20,000 bad checks, according to the General Accounting Office. This was all tax payers money – our money. There are lots of people serving time in jails in this country for the same thing that some members of Congress did with their House checking accounts. Neither you, me, or anyone else could get away with half of the acts that our Legislative department gets away with on a regular basis. Listed below, are some of the laws our Congress has violated over the past few years; special thanks to Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa for documenting them. In his book, “The Way Things Ought To Be,” Rush Limbaugh used this list to show us Americans how our imperial Congress has abused their powers. They include, but are not limited to: “The Social Security Act of 1935, The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, The Equal Pay Act of 1963, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Freedom of Information Act of 1966, The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, The Privacy Act of 1974, and The Ethics in Government Act of 1978” (98).And again, we hear the endless debate concerning our Federal Reserve System (what reserve?), the fraud in our Social Security, and the illegal legislation that is never fully and properly passed through the correct channels. Our trustworthy Congress never makes an end in lying to us about our Social Security Trust Fund. “They claim that it has hundreds of billions of dollars in it, when in fact, the money is going into the General Fund of the United States Treasury, which is broke and running huge deficits” (Stumph 30). I’m part of that “next generation” that is being robbed, according to law, to the social security dollars that I have paid m...
