This current year of our Lord, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence which was signed by 56 American patriots who created our nation “with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”.
This year also hosts a mid-term Congressional election in November. Two years ago, in the 2024 national election American voters re-elected ninety-eight (98%) of their congressmen. This year’s election is generating great media interest even though the re-election percentage was the same in 2022, only slightly higher than the 96% of these honorable persons returned to office in 2020.
Based on the gross Congressional dereliction of duty consistently shown by in the performance of the members of this grave entity, like in the 1939 Churchill quote, “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside and an enigma” why the same scammers keep getting re-elected. As a current example, why would so-called servants of the People expect federal employees who protect the safety of our nation’s air travel be expected to work for no pay for weeks at a time for the second time in the past five months? Or the first time? And when TSA workers were some of the lowest paid federal employees who could least afford it?
The Congressional rule seems to be that when Representatives cannot or refuse to exercise their basic responsibilities, others than they should pay the consequences. Travelers standing in long airport security lines during their latest shutdown might contest that assumption.
Other members of the Department of Homeland Security not receiving checks again this week were members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Secret Service, and other security agencies, some of whom may be at personal risk just by faithfully reporting to work each morning. With U.S. military in a conflict with an enemy who has killed thousand of Americans over the years, at home and abroad, these groups are vital to our national security – in a time of war!
Our Honorable Congressmen continued to be paid their high salaries without interruption. Fewer than twenty percent (20%) of them ever served in the U.S. military while brave Americas are risking their lives daily against Iranian missiles and the dangers of operating in today’s dangerous high-tech warfare.
The inconvenient context behind these periodic partisan government shutdowns is that the finances of our federal government have been grossly mismanaged by Congress for nearly twenty-five years. Congress has failed to keep its mandated social programs properly funded. The Social Security Trust Fund is projected to be insolvent in 2033 when payments to retirees, unless corrected, must be reduced by 23 percent. The Social Security tsunami: Payments could be cut by 23%, doubling the poverty rate for America’s seniors | Fortune
Federal spending and the assumption of debt, a legislative responsibility defined in Article. I. Section. 8. of the Constitution, has ballooned to over $39 trillion during nominal peace times. At the same time, defense spending has been compromised as interest on this massive debt recently exceeded our nation’s defense budget. Our military capability had already been reduced from simultaneously fighting major wars in two regions to only one. DoD needs new force construct to fight multiple wars | Federal News Network And that was before our weapons inventory had been depleted by the Iranian conflict which was reported to require an estimated at least $200 billion and years to replace. The Pentagon requested an extra $200 billion for the Iran war. It might last just 140 days | Fortune
To escape accountability, our esteemed Congressional representatives have mutually pledged to each other their Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor that they will either be out of office or will blame it on others when this Debt Trap destroys our economy or places us in military jeopardy.
The enigma is that with Congressional Job Approval consistently under 30 percent and on March 3 of this month at only 23.5 percent, Congressional Job Approval | RealClearPolling , why do American voters consistently return over 95 percent of these inapt representatives to Washington each election year?
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March 26, 2026
John Whitmore Jenkins
