How Congress Is Wasting Your Time And Tax Dollars Today

We already know that the weak-kneed Democratic Congress is too scared to live up to the will of Americans to end this ridiculous war. It has costs us hundreds of billions of dollars and the amount (not to mention deaths and injuries) continues to soar. The health care system in our country is broken. The greedy corporate culture is still being wholly accepted with the campaign contribution-grease that comes from various industries and is spread across party lines. The gap between rich and poor continues to increase and even violent crime is on the rise again. So what is your Congress doing today?

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two rappers, sitting side-by-side in an ornate House hearing room, went in different directions Monday on the need for hip hop artists to expunge their work of sexist and violent language.

One, Master P, apologized to women for past songs that demeaned them, while another was defiant.

Former gangsta rapper Master P, whose real name is Percy Miller, told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing that he is now committed to producing clean lyrics. The angry music of his past, he said, came from seeing relatives and friends shot and killed.

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But rapper and record producer Levell Crump, known as David Banner, was defiant as lawmakers pressed him on his use of offensive language. ''I'm like Stephen King: horror music is what I do,'' he said in testimony laced with swear words. ''Change the situation in my neighborhood and maybe I'll get better,'' he told one member of Congress.

It is often said that it is easier to look at the problems of another instead of at yourself. Congress could be working on the economic disparity in our nation and that very committee could hold hearings that might actually lead to some good, instead they are examining rap lyrics. Rap and Hip-Hop are musical expressions of society, not the cause of the poverty and violence in the ghettos where it arose.

Rapper David Banner gave Congress a heavy dose of truth. Master P can keep his kids away from his songs just as any parent can for their children, but censorship is not the answer (nor does Master P believe in it). We need to address the real issues going on in America, not what people are singing, rapping or crooning about.