Have Legislators Earned Their Salaries? (Part 1)

CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY

IGNORE ANTITRUST VIOLATIONS BY
WALL STREET SPECULATORS AND BIG OIL
DEALERS IN NECESSARIES OF LIFE
BUT PESTER APPLE AND AT&T
DEALERS IN WIRELESS LUXURIES
FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE SAME LAWS

Illegal monopolies like Wall Street speculators notably Goldman, Sachs & Company and Big Oil have transformed members of Congress and the Presidency from guardians of our constitutional form of government into their puppets in exchange for "perks".

Everyone needs money to live but illegal monopolies have an insatiable appetite for it. An arabic  expression, after translation into the American language, is "With money, you can buy lemonade even in hell" applies to illegal monopolists in the hereafter.

The solution to the inconsistency in the title for this Part is for Congress and the Presidency to change their ways and enforce the federal antitrust laws against all illegal monopolists: such as Apple, AT&T, the Wall Street speculators, and Big Oil especially those monopolists who deal in necessaries of life now in the new "global markets".

See Part 3 for the best solution which takes economic power from Congress and the Presidency and returns it to the states and the People where it naturally belongs.

The Presidency's use of the federal antitrust laws against Apple and AT&T to manage the American economy but not against the speculators and Big Oil is inconsistent and a wasteful use of America's valuable resources. Americans will enjoy even lower prices if the Presidency will also use the federal antitrust laws against Wall Street speculators and Big Oil.

Apple market iPads and AT&T markets cellular telephones. iPads and cellular telephones are not necessaries of life. Americans want these products and voluntarily pay for them even though substitutes such as computers and landline telephones are available at either comparable or even lower prices.

The Presidency uses the federal antitrust laws against Apple. Click http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/11/technology/apple-doj-ebooks/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1 to read David Goldman's article on April 11, 2012, with the title DOJ sues Apple over a price fixing scheme.

Though long over due, ordinary Americans must their 50 states to develop a national plan with criminal laws to prevent illegal monopolies in the way that Massachusetts did from 1919 to 1978. The US Supreme Court  will probably not be against such a plan as the first link above reveals. See also Part 3.