Isn't there more important stuff to be worried about?
So Congress, as they have nothing more important to do than to stick their noses into the affairs of professional sports, have called Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, their former trainer McNamee, and a couple of other people before them on January 16th in responce to the Mitchell Report. What is the Mitchell Report, those of you that do not follow sports ask? Simply, it is 409 pages pertaining to the steroid and human growth hormone 'crisis' in Majour League Baseball, in which several players (both present and past) are named.
Now, I get that small children look up to professional athletes as role models. I understand that it is a probably a bad thing to have already angsty teenagers hopped up on steroids and 'roid raging about. But football has a far worse problem with steroids and HGH, but no one seems to care. Why is that?
And besides, doesn't Congress have anything else to do? Instead of wasting taxpayer's money on this Congressional hearing, why don't they look into fixing some of the problems that are presently on-going, and are important to the well-being of the citizens? But I suppose that the United States being the only 'first world' country without universal free healthcare for it's citizens, an endless and pointless war in Iraq, the continued assault upon the civil liberties of the populous, poverty, and homelessness isn't a big deal. These problems will apparently just take care of themselves.
Now, I get that small children look up to professional athletes as role models. I understand that it is a probably a bad thing to have already angsty teenagers hopped up on steroids and 'roid raging about. But football has a far worse problem with steroids and HGH, but no one seems to care. Why is that?
And besides, doesn't Congress have anything else to do? Instead of wasting taxpayer's money on this Congressional hearing, why don't they look into fixing some of the problems that are presently on-going, and are important to the well-being of the citizens? But I suppose that the United States being the only 'first world' country without universal free healthcare for it's citizens, an endless and pointless war in Iraq, the continued assault upon the civil liberties of the populous, poverty, and homelessness isn't a big deal. These problems will apparently just take care of themselves.