Power Versus Country: Are the Political Elite Willing To Solve Our Nation's Problems?

By Donald P. Bogard

The United States faces myriad problems in the twenty-first century, few of which have easy solutions. In this book author Donald Bogard outlines four problems that the federal government could solve, given the political will. Unfortunately, Congress, as well as the president, do not address difficult issues for fear of offending voters, thus risking losing an election, which would mean lose of power, the ultimate Washington aphrodisiac. The four problems discussed?perks members of Congress grant themselves, pork barrel legislation, illegal immigration, and Social Security?are not the four problems that the author believes are the most pressing issues facing the United States today. Rather, they are four problems he thinks need to be resolved and can be resolved with just a little political backbone. The author believes that if the members of Congress would work together to solve those four problems that might lead them to cooperate to resolve the really difficult problems that face our nation. In these pages, Bogard lays bare some shocking facts, large and small. For example, a path to Social Security solvency has been around?and ignored?since the 1980s; our taxpayer dollars subsidize every single ticket to the tune of $100 per flight out of the John Murtha Airport in Pennsylvania; members of Congress can be reimbursed for mileage at a higher rate than the IRS allows for the rest of us; and illegal immigrants can obtain ?legitimate? citizenship documents by renting birth certificates, easily obtained from public records. If the president and members of Congress could be inoculated against ?Potomac Fever,? the virus that leads them to crave power and wish to stay in Washington forever, they could begin to solve these four problems and the many others that face our country.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934922919
• ISBN13: 9781934922910
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Donald P. Bogard in association with IBJ Book Publishing
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"