Congress recently fixed the threat of flight delays caused by sequester cuts. It allowed the FAA to shift money around, thereby avoiding furloughs for air traffic controllers. It acted quickly, getting the legislation done and signed in a few short days. And it’s pretty obvious why – senators and representatives didn’t want to wait in long lines or face delayed flights.
This is good, because we now know what will push Congress to fix the sequester mess. If something affects them personally, it gets addressed. Among the many cuts still in place are those that help fund Meals On Wheels, the nutrition program for seniors. So what can we do to make senators and reps feel the impact of the cuts to senior nutrition?
That’s easy. We make them feel hungry, just like those seniors now getting put on a waiting list for food. And we do this with a nationwide boycott on feeding congressmen.
Here’s how it’d work:
A senator goes to the grocery store. He gets into line and the checker tallies up his items. But when he swipes his card, the checker says, “Sorry sir, something appears to be wrong with your card.”
So he digs out another card and swipes that one. And the checker says, “Sorry sir, this one isn’t working either. We have an ATM machine over there.”
The senator stomps off. He gets some cash, returns to the checker, and hands her a $20. She takes out a little scanning pen, runs it over the bill, and says, “Sorry sir, this bill is a counterfeit.”
Chuffed, the senator heads to a restaurant. But the Maitre D who greets him in the lobby says, “I’m so sorry sir, we just ran out of food.”
This happens at two more restaurants. Famished and desperate, the senator heads to McDonalds. He’s greeted at the counter by a pimply teenager in a hair-net. The kid smiles and says, “I’m sorry, our computers are down. Damn dude, you look hungry. That must totally suck. But you’re not alone. My grandmother, she was on Meals On Wheels, but she got cut off by some clueless fucks who’ve never been hungry.”
And then the kid points at the ground and says, “Oh, hey, you can have that french-fry on the floor over there.”
This could totally work. It’d be fun. But since we’d all have to be on board, we need some incentive to stick together. Here it is: Just picture Mitch McConnell dumpster-diving behind Safeway, with Boehner holding his legs so he doesn’t fall in.
That works for me.
I have a feeling that senators and congressmen could live off the pork they have bilked for years to come but I like how you think.
The problem is that too many congressmen have agendas while the rest of us have humanity. You’d have to make all of us congressmen in order for that to work. I don’t see that happening. Most of us wouldn’t want to give up our humanity.
Loving this idea but I reckon he would eventually be fed by someone because real people have compassion.
I’d probably hand him an orange or half a sandwich. He’d get a lecture at the same time, though, probably along the lines of:
“Now you know how my elderly neighbor felt the first time he ended up having to eat cat food.”
The real world is something foreign to these guys. It would be nice if they experienced it routinely like those who elected them to office rather than the ones who stuff their campaign coffers for special interests favors.