Less Is More
When the news came out that the next session of Congress would have a shorter work week, a lot of people unleashed their Inner Scoffers. The country’s in a mess, and the Democrats in Congress want to work less!
But hey: The 110th Congress — the one we are currently enduring — started out with the promise to end the meager two-day work week, to work harder. A lot did come out. But what of value?
And now all we have to look forward to is . . . Fridays off for the upcoming year?
Well, in June, at money time, our representatives will put back on the Friday yoke. But otherwise it’s back down to four days of sessions per week.
This could actually be good. The answer to our problems is probably not more from Congress, but less. Less government spending. Fewer laws. No new programs.
Indeed, the only excuse for more work is to fix the biggest problems Congress has given us — like Social Security, for instance . . . and Medicare . . . farm subsidies, of course . . . and the bottlenecks of transportation regulation.
Maybe Congress should go back to working two days only — if they would add a special day every month devoted to repealing the bad stuff they did in previous years.
But would that provide time enough to repeal enough?
That five-day work week would probably have to be revived.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
