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The Ruling Class: Inside the Imperial Congress

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Many folks have no clue on what happens in the Congress. They hear of legislation being considered that affects their lives, but are totally unaware that most of it is being generated by UNELECTED Bureaucrats! This book opens lid to the Pandora's Box called Congress!

This book was published in 1993 highlighting some serious problems with the way that Congress runs and suggesting some much-needed reforms. The Republicans took over the House in the following election promising reform. Twelve years later the Democracts took Congress back promising reform. This seventeen-year-old book should be seriously out of date by now. A couple things have been done but, unfortunately, Congress is still in dire need of the sorts of reform called for here. One of the points that seems obvious once you see it is that modern legislators hate to legislate. They and their staffs are more focused on "casework" which really amounts to securing votes by protecting voters one at a time from the depredations of the bureaucrats to whom Congress delegated its own Constitutional responsibility of writing the laws. One thing that is unfortunately dated about the book is that the dire-sounding talk about the 1993-levels of debt involve numbers that seem quaintly small in a post-TARP/stimulus/Obamacare context. A quick and enlightening read.