I decided to repost this because the Republicans are starting to use the same phrase again in their suggestion that they are the ones working for the average American.
I wrote this on July 30th, 2010.
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Supposedly even the sausage makers, but that is an outright lie.
Anyone who really cooks for friends and family knows that making the sausage is the only way it gets on the table.
The people who wouldn't like to see sausage made are the people who make crap sausage, with animal parts that shouldn't even go into dog food (I'll get to the quality of dog food later, maybe).
No, the problem isn't that people don't like to see sausage made, they just hate the idea of sausage being made with throwaway ingredients. So if congress thinks of the process of government and making laws is making sausage, what does that say about how misapplied is the thinking of our elected officials? Politics is practicing the art and science of government, not sausage making.
And the problem with them is that they know they aren't even starting with the finest ingredients to make the sausage, of which any chef would use. But no, they hem and haw about the process without actually engaging in the process, to the point where the Republicans can't even participate because they know they have no quality ingredients for the sausage in the first place.
Practicing the art and science of government. Such a truly noble cause, well worth the aspiration, and yet the process of practicing the art and science of government is compared with making shit sausage. The founding fathers of our system of government already illustrated just how well the sausage can be made, and how good ingredients make for some really good sausage.
Life follows some strange choices in muses, so I'll just stick with the food metaphor for a while.
Has anyone actually come up with a comparison about what Americans will accept as food and the downfall of the middle class? How about the fact of the middle classes' increasingly expensive health care due to the crap Americans are expected to eat? Children doing well in school? A) we don't even have a breakfast program anymore for hungry children, and B) more often children are either sick, have ADD, or risingly so, autism.
Since it has been 30+ years that crap has been stuffed down our throats, it is not suprising that many of a members of congress are either sick, have ADD, or risingly so, autism. OK, add OCD and apparently Tourette's. Lord knows there's enough of that going around the halls of Congress. In fact, OCD apparently is catching, although I can't find any reference to the agent that would cause its spread. Maybe it piggybacks onto Tourette's?
Ah, but I was talking about food ingredients. Or was it the art and science of governing? This is funny because I had never considered this avenue of comparison before, but there are statistics, legal suits, laws and regulations and even college courses, all having remarkably similar meaning to both the quality of food ingredients and the practice of governing.
The implications aren't just based on a similarity, but rather what appears to be a direct corellation. For instance, any government which would allow hot dogs to be tainted with no more than a specific amount of rat feces just doesn't get it. Where is the concept of a zero tolerance? Why allow X amount of rat feces in food in the first place?
If a governmental body can write laws, rules and regulations that allows rat feces in food, then how can we expect the product of their work to rise to some higher level or cause? We will get the governmental equivalent of rat feces in our laws, rules and regulations.
I think back to about 5 years ago when the Chinese production of canned dog and cat food was starting to kill our pets in a short time frame. Something about using chemicals instead of biological whey to thicken the broth (which was probably tainted water from coal mines upriver).
Welp, for 5 years now I have been making enough dog food for two animals, one 35 lbs and the other 70. I do this every four days. EVERY FOUR DAYS.
What I'd like to know is why can't congress go for the long committments that mean they will be making good dog food every 4 days for the next 50 years? Maybe we can then expect them to make good people food, too.
We know where their committment is because they think that making sausage is nasty work. If Congress would only practice the art and science of government as well as the real sausage makers, America would be in great shape.
Because, Congress, it is all about the ingrediants.
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