Congress was very predictable when they came to some agreement at the final hour, avoiding the "fiscal cliff." Now many of them are walking around with their chests stuck out as thought they are the "heros" who saved us. This is the largest collection of disconnected individuals we have ever had in Washington. Not one of them relates to the average American and what we face every day. That includes Alexander, Duncan, Fleischmann, and Corker. I have sent them e-mails in the last two months and I always get a well crafted form e-mail giving me the "official" Republican stance. Blah blah blah--- they do not get it.

I cannot believe it! They left the tax cuts out of the agreement. Now, middle class America is going to pay more taxes. Those who said Congress would not raise taxes on the working citizens of this country lied to us. You can be sure they will use the excuse that these were the tax rates all along and the cuts were temporary at best. That may or may not be true, but the reality is, citizens will pay more income taxes in 2013 than they did in 2012 and that is not what we were told would happen.

They want to cut expenses but they have never done anything about to abuse of the programs that were designed to help citizens get through a rough time. The abuse of Food Stamps has been rampant for years and years and little to nothing is done to stop it. That same thing has happened with welfare, unemployment compensation and disability. Billions go out to undeserving people every year and the government does nothing about it. Those who are opposed to those programs usually feel that way because they know of the abuse and nothing is being done. That leads to the belief the programs should be abolished. It is not the programs, it is the government allowing the abuse.

One last piece of evidence that Congress is the most inept collection of people ever paid too much money is, they sat there on their duffs waiting on the "final" draft of the cliff dodging legislation, and did nothing to help those people along the East Coast suffering as a result of hurricane Sandy. Those poor people are in trouble right now not next week, not next month, right now!