Report on this, report on that: NEWSMAX MAGAZINE reports that Congress requires over 4,300 written reports from various agencies to be delivered to The Hill every year; there is even a report on how many reports have been reported as required. Report, report, report... and that's just to Congress. There are also reports to the White House, reports to various agency hierarchies, reports to the Supreme Court and reports to the news media.
Most of these reports never the see the light of day; they arrive in some Congressional Committee office and get relegated to the closet where they remain until some officeholder either dies or loses an election; they are then presumably copied to some data file, shredded and incinerated. No wonder the country is choking in smog.
How about an annual report on the exact number of acres of land are used for peanut farming, probably a holdover report from the Carter era? How about a report on the number of dog and cat pelts crossing the border each year? Probably the only report that is not generated or maintained is the one about how many times Members of Congress not only screwed the American public, but nailed a Congressional Page as well.
One of these days, someone will send in a one-page report and Washington will sink into the Potomac, never to be seen again. I'm not kidding; it would not be the first time such a thing has happened. Remember Atlantis? Yes... we finally know who to blame for that.
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