Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is as refreshing as cool water on a scorching August day. He is smart, principled, candid, capable, courageous, and full of integrity. He is a brilliant engineer with 29 patents who after studying at MIT developed technology, brought it to market, and founded a 70 person company. After 10 years he felt called to public service and now serves 750,000 people of rural Kentucky.
Mr. Massie identifies himself as a constitutional republican with libertarian leanings. His speeches and interviews are full of revelations about how Washington really works and the depth of corruption, craziness, and waste that fills the halls of congress. This is a politician worth listening to.
A few Thomas Massie quotes:
I am pessimistic about the national debt. When interest rates return to 5% we will pay One Trillion Dollars in Interest, bigger than the military and all other federal expenditures besides the entitlement programs.
I am optimistic about american innovation. The future will be better because of engineers – not politicians.
New congressman come into congress with good principles and intentions but get turned into zombies. New congressman need a dating manual of that they don’t go where they don’t want to go.
Congress really is like House of Cards. But with one exception – in real congress nobody has a plan.
The republican party bills me for the committees I lead. Unbelievable.
We vote on bills we are unable to read without any time to prepare to vote.
You would not believe how often we vote on naming buildings and post offices.
