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<p>To adapt H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the cynicism and self-dealing of the American political class. Witness their ad-libbed decision, at the 11th hour and on the basis of no legal authority, to create a special exemption for themselves from the ObamaCare health coverage that everybody else is mandated to buy.</p>

The barbershop of the U.S. Senate has run deficits of approximately $350,000 a year for each of the last 15 years. So Senate sergeant at arms Terry Gainer has decided to try out a new model, one that has looked rather unfashionable during the Obama era: privatization. Gainer has tried to trim Senate Hair Care Services for the past few years. Now the political climate troubling everyone else on Capitol Hill is allowing him to move faster than he anticipated towards privatizing it completely. “I’ve accelerated my goal to get there through leveraging sequestration,” Gainer explains. “The only real...

As members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate return to Washington, to their cushy retirement programs, choice of non-government controlled health care insurance, cut rate haircuts, manicures and shoeshines, meanwhile expecting Americans to lower their expectations and accept the leavings, along with higher taxes, that are being dished out to them.

While millions of Americans are relying on unemployment compensation, food stamps and charities to exist, Congress decided to spend $2 million dollars on extra jets for their traveling convenience. These will supply private planes for lawmakers and high level bureaucrats so they can travel in style.