SCENIC ROUTE
What is the intended meaning when we use the term - “with”Congressional oversight?”
To me, that has always been to put Congress in charge of inspections of the business to ascertain if it was being properly managed. It seem, however, than the concept has been confused with the tourism term of ”overlook”. Congress should have a bit more responsibility than to simply “look at” a problem within any program over which they have some control. Too often, it appears, it becomes combination of “too many cooks spoil the broth” and “what is everybody's business, is nobody's business.”
Grandma's old sayings apply with ease because the idea itself is somewhat dated .The italicizes are extensive,too. Usually such supervision bodies consist of three or more members of our Congress and one usually proves to be dominant .The affairs of the body under study and are managed to suit the career needs of the head honcho. It looks good to have mentions of his having “participated” in governing such-and-such a-principality or city,alter when election forms are being crafted. Our national capital of Washington, D.C. is such a city. It has local government of a sort which is a under the ”oversight” of a governing body largely from the House. It makes very little difference for the citizen who has potholes in his street or thinks he pays far to much for garbage pick-up. The average citizen feels he has no government. In theory he or she can vote in their home state of they know what that might be, but many D.C. residents think of themselves as being vote less. The worst part about all of this is that the citizens of “states:”50do not realize the special situation in which D.C 'ers find themselves entangled.
We hear appeals for statehood from time-to-time, but that test ball is promptly batted into left field and forgotten. Forefathers and founders are mis-quoted liberally. Some fight the idea of a State of Columbia because they have a problem of how to fit another another star on the national flag. We've managed from thirteen to whatever it is currently - fifty, fifty-one or two? C'mon, admit it! You're not absolutely sure, are you? Some will seriously inquire what we would, then, do for star positioning if California decides to become three states by some prize-winning “Proposition Number 13-1/2” ; Texas becoming five states - North, East, South, West and Mid Texas, and don't even think about an overpopulated Alaska!
Overseers are overlooking a lot it seems. We are the ones who oversee the overseers, too.
A.L.M. January 3, 2004 [c450wds]
