Lets be real, when you get fired from a job you’ve had for at least two years, are you really in a cheerful mood?
Do you want to go and do what’s in the best interest of your company despite the knowledge that you have nothing left to lose?
Yeah, somehow I don’t see that happening. In fact, it’s far more likely your emotions will get the best of you, and you’ll do whatever you feel like doing.
Fortunately for most employers, when they fire an employee, that person will be spending the next day packing up his or her belongings and will never have a chance to do harm to his or her now ex-employer.
The basic idea is one that seems like common sense to me.
But, of course, when we’re talking about the government, do we really expect anything to make sense anymore?
Instead, we allow members of Congress to continue to make important decisions for the country after many of them have already been kicked out of office.
The people have spoken, and they do not think those individuals are fit to properly represent them anymor — which begs the question: Why are they still in Washington, D.C., representing those same people who just fired them?
I might be a little more sympathetic if our officials were using this time for productive measures such as overturning the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
But no.
Instead, they’re passing laws that, quite frankly, are not time-sensitive and should wait till the new Congress comes in to pass or fail.
The big issue here is the members of Congress currently in office are no longer accountable to anyone. These members don’t have to follow the will of the people because the people have already willed them into unemployment.
So, naturally, legislators can just do whatever they want and pass bills they know the American people do not support.
Using political turmoil to pass legislation that couldn’t be passed any other time is reprehensible by any means.
It’s such a simple problem to fix that it pulls at the Constitutional question as to why we still have this idiotic time period.
Members of Congress take sizeable vacations throughout the entire year — is it really necessary to have one of the few times they are working be after a large portion of their colleagues have just received their pink slip?
Congress can still be on standby in case of emergency, which oddly enough seems to be the only time the dominant political parties seem to agree, but it doesn’t need to be making country-changing decisions during any lame-duck anything.
Why hasn’t this teensy constitutional rift been mended?
I guess I’ve just always thought when you fire an employee, he or she is supposed to leave.
Silly me.
Chris Dodson is a first-year journalism and finance student. His column appears every Monday.
