Posted by
Phil LaFontaine on Monday, January 04, 2010 1:09:06 PM
I wanted to write about the constant pilfering of the Untited States Treasury by the clueless politicians in Washington. Cases like Florida Congressman Bill Young who in July of 09 alone has roughly 100 million dollars for the State of Florida, why, so he can gloat about it during his next election. He requested an appropriation of 300K for a Youth Out Reach Program at the Holocaust Museum.WHAT! That's one Congressman, multiply that by three hundred plus. Senator Harry Reid tops the list with billions in appropriations for Nevada.
Folks ,the US Treasury was not devised to be a piggy bank for every mindless project needed by politicians to get reelected. The money in the Federal Treasury is not a pork barrel slush fund for the States, Federal taxes were to be used for National Defense, Postal Service Etc. If you want to shrink the size of Government, then demand we shrink what is an allowable expenditure. No more pet projects, no more State wish lists, no more made up projects to disguise the original intent of the money grab.
Lobbyest should be banned outright. Take down the For Sale sign that now permeates Washington's halls of Congress. For every lobbyest that gets his wish granted, a politician makes money, is granted further power or a Corporate Board of Directors position after he leaves office. The lobbyest gets his wish list approved, but the approval is not the same as you and I requesting a raise, the approval of this wish list was granted by a change in the Laws of this country for the benefit of a Corporation, and with that approval comes, a request for tax breaks, grants, budget items to benefit the Corporation, that flounder on the books for years.
After the lobbyest and your Representitive are through playing grabass with each other, we are all left holding he check. Lobbyest benefit no one but the players involved in the process.
For those of you cheering my bashing of the Politicians and there house dates, the lobbyest, I'd like to introduce you to the people behind the scenes of this financial raid, this will require you to go look in the mirror. That's right the American people hold a large percent of the blame for this cancer on our economic system.
A lot of Americans reelect these parasites based on the pork they bring home to their States. The problem as I had stated in another article, is that it is not your money. It belongs to the other 49 States as well. If in the case of Bill Young, he is earmarking 100 Mil. for your State in one month, ask yourself this, have we as residents of Florida paid in tax revenue ,paid in to the Federal Treasury 100 Mil. in the month of July 09, not likely. Therefore you are spending money paid by tax payers of another state for your demands. Hardly seems honest does it. This goes for the other 49 Sates as well. Harry Reid of Nevada requesting billions! Do you think the people of Nevada pay into the Federal Treasury billions in tax dollars each year, of course not. This in fact is why we are in the financial trouble we are in today, because we don't have the tax base to cover the expenses these idiots are requesting on your behalf.
Do you realize that the financial liability for every man woman and child in this country is around 140K. Let me ask you this, would you feel comfortable with me, or anyone for that matter, accessing your checking account, and going on a spending spree and leaving you with the bill? Of course not! So why do you allow your politician to do just that? When most of use spend beyond our limits, we cut back, spend less, we go without the perks. In Washington, they just raise their own credit limit what the hell, they are not paying the bill, you are.
When we say we are cutting our budget, we mean that instead of going out to eat once a week to dine, at the cost of about one hundred dollars per meal, we go out once a month reducing our cost by three hundred dollars per month. Now the Washington way. They are spending 1000.00 per month on meals in 2009, in 2010 they plan on spending 1500.00 per month on meals, but decide to spend only the original 1000.00. In Washington speak, they have cut their budget for meals by 500.00 per month, which they will tell you was a 50% cut in their meals budget. Cute Hey.
The bottom line is, we can not sustain this level of spending, and that Impostor in the White House, either doesn't get it or he does get it and that is part of the plan. Folks, we are twelve trillion dollars in debt, if you include unfunded liabilities, we are ( You and Me) around one hundred twenty trillion dollars in debt. Thats trillion with a "T". And yet the Democrats are spending billions in one year, totaling trillions. Again if you are 100,000.00 in debt, do you go out and spend another million? If you are paying attention, you will have to ask yourself, why the rush to spend this money, why do we need it right now, and if we are that far in debt, how can anyone in good conscience spend billions more. Is this what you elected these buffoons for?
They are bankrupting you and I, they will come out of this with hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions for their efforts. The actions of the current Congress and Senate should scare you out of your shorts. They have been told that we no longer want this out of control spending, and what is their answer, they pass it against the will of the people. Has anyone noticed that medical stocks and Pharm stocks have increased over 12% since the Senate pass their version of the Health Care Bill. A bill that will restrict your access to health care, blow the budget sky high and increase your insurance premiums, yet Wall Street loves the idea WHY! Simple,
Obama cut a deal with them for their support of this Health Care black hole. Not unlike the bribe to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, which for his vote his state will not have to pay their portion of the Medicare bill, every other state will pay their share. Or Landreau who accepted 300 mil as a bribe for her vote. My god what the hell is happening to our country, Obama has put it and the American way of life up for sale.
Once again, this bill has nothing to do with the benefit of the American People, someone has been greased, people are going to get rich, and the politicians are going to stand before you with their usual lack of shame and tell you what a great deal you got, while they laugh at you all the way to the bank, because they think you are dumber than a bag of rocks, and you will actually believe this line of BS because they said it was such a great deal.Which it was, they just don't say who the Great Deal benefited. And considering how the public has reacted to this way of doing business in the past, maybe they are right about the bag of rocks.
Someone, sometime,has to convince the public that the spending has to stop. I have two grandchildren, and it makes me sick to think that these mobsters in the White House are bankrolling us for their Socialist dreams on the backs of these kids. The taxes to pay for this joy ride is going to kill these kids, and it is up to their parents and grandparents to make sure it stops, yet I see little outrage from the masses.
I fear some of the American people have a "it's not my problem attitude". Whats the old adage, and I'm going to get this wrong, but you'll get the idea. "The came for the Pol's and I said nothing, they came for the Czechs,and I said nothing, then they came for the Jews and I said nothing, then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. This is how the country is acting, and this is what they are planning on to force feed their agenda.The only thing getting White House attention is their agenda, everything else,terrorist,the budget,the economy,the debt all just an annoyce to this administration. "Nero fiddles while Rome burns."
Wake up people, soon they will come for something near and dear to you, unless we put them back in their place as Servants.