Get it together Congress

Politics make me crazy. I can't understand how 536 (congress plus the president) people can sit back in Washington and fight over tiny things, while real people are being impacted by the decisions or rather lack of decisions, they are making. 

Sure its fine if you shut down the government for 3 weeks because you're still getting paid. 

I have literally lost count how many times we have had "last minute" budget debates and deadlines and deals to make before the whole country is sent into a spiraling recession. 

Why can't they pass a budget that will last for a whole year? Why do they wait until the last minute to start negotiations? 

I get it, the nation is divided, if the nearly 50/50 split in the popular vote for president last year was any indication, but it is Congress's job to make decisions and choices that benefit the American people. 

Right now, no one in Congress or the president, is looking out for the actual people. They are fighting like children and embarrassing themselves in the process. How does this look to the rest of the world? Here is the U.S.A. getting involved in Syria and Afghanistan and Iraq, when we can't even solve our own problems at home. It is ridiculous. 

I don't know a lot about the budget specifics and what they are really arguing over (except Obamacare) but the fact of the matter is that what they are doing is hurting the general public. Going into to default won't benefit anyone, in fact it could hurt a lot of people, including many people I know who rely on their social security checks to live every month. Refusing to sign any bill that doesn't defund Obamacare isn't going to get the Tea Party Republicans anywhere! It has already been funded, let it go through and see what happens. It could fail catastrophically and end up killing itself off or it could be wildly successful but at this point, years after its passing, there is no point in continuing to fight something that is already going into effect! 

I think there should be a clause that if Congress allows the government to go into a shutdown or default or anything else that harms the majority of the population they should have to work unpaid until they figure it out. We wouldn't still be in a shutdown 3 weeks later if Congress wasn't getting paid, they would have never let it happen in the first place. 

I think its really too bad its not a major election year this year, because I imagine this whole situation would be playing out very differently if their jobs were at stake. If I refused to negotiate with my coworkers and my boss and was costing my company money every single day I would be fired in a heartbeat. 

Congress is failing at their jobs and in the meantime they are letting you and me down, I just hope the American people remember this next year when some of the people responsible are up for reelection. In the meantime here is my message for Congress: Put the bickering and finger-pointing and politics aside and for once make a decision that will benefit the people you were elected to represent!