Let's go on vacation

Air Control Tower - construction suspended

  70,000 construction workers are now unemployed because Congress failed to get their act together AGAIN.  Add to that that the Government is losing the 1.2 billion dollar taxes that would have been collected on airline ticket sales.  Congress couldn't care less; it's vacation time.  Just one more case of "I've got mine, to hell with you"!
   Nationwide there are 21 million people unemployed, people who would work if there were a job available, some of those would be workers are so discouraged that they've quit looking for work, if those people were added to the "official" figure the unemployment rate would be over fourteen percent.  Congress doesn't care about them either; it's vacation time.
   Our bridges and roads are in terrible shape, gasoline consumption is down so less fuel taxes are being collected (Federal and State).  Those taxes are primarily what supplies funding for highway and bridge work.  The tax structure could be changed, could have been, but of course, Congress is on vacation - they don't care if several hundred construction workers that are unemployed could be working; it's vacation time.
   Do congressional workers and leaders get paid while on vacation?  You bet your sweet bippy they do, how else could they afford to be on vacation.  Should members of Congress care about the rest of us?  The answer, of course, is yes; but it's vacation time!

Rural highway that needs a whole lot of work - too bad, it's vacation time in Congress.

Memorial Bridge.  Crosses the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, NH and Kittery, Maine.
Build in 1920-1923 in memory of World War One vets, it was permanently closed in July of 2011;
no funding for a replacement for a bridge on US 1!  The bridge originally was on New England
Highway One - that was before the federal numbering system.  There are hundreds of bridges
of this age still being used - it's not safe.
Congress is on vacation.