Spending Bill My Foot!

In the last 24 hours the Congress passed yet another bill so they can keep their doors open. When Congress does this it's called a Spending Bill, when a company does this it's called Fraud, and when we as individual Americans do this it's called Bankruptcy.

But not the government!

For them it's business as usual.

Why do they call it a spending bill?

Because it would be too long it they called it the "we can't live up to our obligations as responsible stewards of the public's money and are completely incapable of balancing a budget" Bill - which is entirely what it is.

Oh, make no mistake about it, both parties are complicit in this charade. When one party is in the power they say it's necessary to keep the country (Code for government) working and the other party says it financial irresponsibility. When the other party is in power they just change jerseys and play the others parts.

In reality, a spending bill means that once again the elected officials and bureaucrats have let us down and are kicking the Washington bar tab farther down the road. A road that is unsustainably deepening with each subsequent Spending Bill.

10 years age, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, it doesn't matter. Every few years we hear how this new budget will put us on a "path to a balanced budget" in the next decade. How's that working out for us?

Basically, the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Think about that the next time you rush to the polls to vote for your favorite incumbent. Until we hold them accountable for their inability to meet the demands of the fiscal responsibility that only a balanced budget can deliver, then nothing will change.

Oh, and before some politico or their staff asks you how you would fix the problem, remind them that they were elected to make the changes necessary to do just that. AND if they can't, then they need to get out of the way and let someone in there who can lead.

The answers to fiscally responsible governing aren't hard to find, but they can be, and usually are hard to follow through on.

Cha-Ching – There They Go Again!!

Later,
Bill

Even More Less Certain!!

So last year the congress and President passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling, keep the Bush Tax Cuts, and begin the difficult process of cutting spending by creating a “super-committee” to come up with the cuts otherwise we would go through a process called sequestration. A process that was so scary that it would force the elected officials make the changes necessary to make it all work.

Guess What?

It didn’t work!!

Now the talking heads in Washington are no closer to a deal, we are no closer to permanent tax reform, no closer to spending reform, no closer to a balanced budget, no closer to avoiding sequestration, and no closer to anything that even closely resembles and working government.

Want proof? How about this, as of today the federal government has not passed a budget in 1341 days!! That’s right, the U.S. Government has not had a budget passed and signed into law since 2009….It leaves one speechless doesn’t it. NOT ME!!

It completely ticks me off. For the first time ever, after the last few decades of politicians in Washington they are going to leave the future of this country in worse shape than they found it. Are they seriously going to tell us that they can’t find cuts that will save $1.5 trillion over the next decade? The fact is we have to cut the budget and spending in a manner that will balance the budget immediately.

Do we seriously think we can slowly lower spending and that will save it all? Hell no we can’t.

We have to balance the budget NOW, not in the next decade but NOW!!!!

The United States Government takes in roughly $2.1 trillion a year in taxes yet still finds a way to spend $3.5 trillion plus a year and without a budget that number will grow as the spending is allowed to increase because the congress and President signed in a law allowing the spending to grow a little each year making the budget more of an unnecessary guideline rather than a hard-line rule to govern spending that it should be.

“Govern”….sounds like a word that ought to mean something in Washington, D.C. – See the Irony?

But seriously, $2.1 trillion, how can that not be enough to govern the country? It sure seems like it should be but maybe it’s not enough because too many of us in the public who complain don’t actually take the time to pay attention and keep an eye on their elected officials and see how they are doing.

Think your voice doesn’t matter, get with a few friends and call your congressman or send him a letter that you also post on Facebook, or Twitter, or some other social network. Let everyone see what you said to him and then promise to post their response, or lack thereof, and see if they don’t respond.

Today the Senate has come up with a proposal to keep the taxes they are for most Americans but doesn’t address anything else at all. They just want to address the taxes but keep spending where it is – WORNG ANSWER!!

And many of those in the Senate seem good with a lot of it but are they? And if they are let’s get an explanation for it – NOW! This agreement the senate leaders are discussing will just pass the buck down the road and nothing will get done. The national debt will increase and our future will be even more less certain.

Sequestration was supposed to force the leaders in Washington to reform taxes, lower spending, and pass a budget; instead, the only thing that seems to get passed is, once again, the BUCK!!

We must have a balanced budget. Federal government must do their job and nothing more. Congressional leaders should lead for the betterment of the country and not the betterment of their party. If they governed with the future of this nation in the forefront then elections would take care of themselves. Instead they all govern with the next election in mind.

I could care less with the political parties; I care about my children and what the future holds for them. Those in Washington are showing how little they are truly worried about their children and grand-children’s future and more about their own.

I need a breath of air!!

Happy New Year everyone!!

Bill