Solvometer

The pussyass cowardass Repooflicans in Congress have been in control of the House for 3 months and so far they’ve done exactly nothing. They haven’t even TRIED. No problems solved, just a lot of obnoxious farts.

Ordinary people in ordinary jobs do a lot of routine uninteresting work, and also solve problems daily. Every normal job has its routine boring parts and its interesting problem-solving parts.

Programmers, store clerks, beauticians, taxi drivers, plumbers, dentists, all solve problems. As a programmer, I solve about 10 problems per day, along with the usual proportion of dull editing and false starts. My solutions are a small part of larger projects, so each solution is about 1/200 of one customer satisfaction. Beauticians and dentists and plumbers are probably in the same range of sol/day, except that each solution is individually satisfying to one customer. Store clerks and taxi drivers have a much larger sol/day, but each solution is less satisfying and mostly unappreciated.

If politicians worked like humans, Congress would have been solving 10 problems a day for 12 weeks = 600 problems this year. Instead their count is precisely zero.