Posted on 02/13/2024 5:16:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
The United States has traditionally had a government whereby citizens elected officials who were empowered to make decisions for the public. That is the core principle of a representative republic.
Just in the past year, however, we have seen our representatives in both the House and the Senate undermine the will of the people who elected them.
Let’s consider just three issues: the debt ceiling, the border, and the Ukraine War.
The Debt Ceiling: Despite Kevin McCarthy’s promises to hold the debt ceiling, he caved to Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. In meeting at the White House, he not only agreed to raise the debt ceiling, but he agreed to let President Biden spend without caps not for one, but two years.
According to a left-leaning CNN poll, 79% of Republican voters opposed raising the debt ceiling unless serious budget cuts were made.
Fourteen of those voters’ representatives in the Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling. In the House, 149 of 222 representatives, or nearly 70 percent, voted for the unlimited, no-capped debt ceiling raise.
They went against the will of their constituents and agreed to fund all the injurious policies of the Biden Administration.
The Border: The now infamous McConnell border security bill, which would have codified the ‘legal’ crossing of 5,000 illegal migrants a day under the supervision and control of DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, was so outrageous that even Senator James Langford and his boss and bill instigator Senator McConnell could not vote for it in the end.
This bill had no funds for finishing the wall, implementing ‘Remain in Mexico,’ or any deterrent to illegal immigration. It was a sneaky ploy to ensure that illegal immigration would go on in perpetuity at a minimum rate of 5,000 migrants a day.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
These politicians need to be held in indentured servitude until they pay off the debt they have created.
BTTT
“These politicians need to be held in indentured servitude until they pay off the debt they have created.”
I was thinking a more lasting solution.
Imho …. congresscritters are no more than dirt that was and dirt congresscritters will always be, except for the rare statesperson that cares for our nation and serves the American People.
The far-left commie piggies have switched our country over to mob rule “democrazy” where the extreme far-left bass turds make up the rules as they go along. America has become a disgrace. It’s time to start locking up the far-lefties. They are the scum of the Earth.
Well, if this is so, then shouldn't we expect that "the people," the "will" of whom has been so undermined, to vote these representatives out of office en masse?
But that never does seem to happen, does it?
People need to wake up and stop worshipping the false idols of "our constitutional system" and "representative democracy."
“I was thinking a more lasting solution.”
The underlying problem is that “elected” officials have no fear of the people.
They should be afraid to win office by fraud and betray their constituents, but they aren’t.
People get the government they deserve.
How do we charge them with TREASON??? Who has standing to bring that charge?
The Senate’s passage of Biden’s funding bill made George Soros very happy. Read on.
J Street Lobby Backstory——On Friday, October 20th, 2023, the Biden Administration sent a Supplemental Funding Request to the Congress that contains key priorities for the American Jewish community:
Please urge your federal elected officials to take action by sending an email below or picking up the phone to call using the script at the end of this form. Your advocacy will help ensure Congress passes the Supplemental Budget Request, which includes the following:
<><>$14.3 Billion in Emergency assistance to Israel: This emergency assistance will bolster Israel’s ability to defend herself and replenish vital defense systems, including the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense programs.
<><>Increased Funding for FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP): Jewish communities are in a state of elevated readiness and have already been forced to increase their security measure. FEMA’s Nonprofit “Security Grant Program” helps ensure the safety and security of Jewish and other faith-based community institutions. The increased funding included in Biden’s Supplemental Budget Request will help bolster our Jewish community’s capacity to protect itself at this challenging time.
<><>$61.4 Billion in Emergency Assistance to Ukraine: The J Street Lobby stands in solidarity with Ukraine and supports efforts to strengthen its democracy in the face of aggression. This funding will aid Ukraine’s efforts to safeguard its democracy and protect its citizens. Jewish Federations are actively engaged in supporting the Ukrainian people—including by resettling over 2,600 displaced Ukrainians across the United States—and we seek continued U.S. support for these critical efforts.
J Street believes that maintaining a strong, vibrant US-Israel relationship is a core American interest. We want to see a secure, thriving Israel that is a healthy democracy, a national home for the Jewish people and a state for all its citizens that embodies the shared values that have long formed the heart of the special relationship between our two countries. We believe that American diplomatic leadership has an important role to play in helping to make this vision a reality, as does cooperation in (financing) Israel’s security, economic, technological, academic and civil society spheres.
WIKI-—Confidential IRS documents obtained by The Washington Times in 2010 showed that George Soros had been a donor to J Street since 2008. The approximately $750,000 from Soros and his family, together with donations from Hong Kong-based businesswoman Ms. Consolacion Esdicul, amounted to about 15% of J Street’s funding in its early years.
In previous statements and on its web site J Street had seemed to deny receiving support from foreign interests and from Soros.
Jeremy Ben-Ami apologized for earlier “misleading” statements regarding funding from Soros. Ben-Ami also clarified that donors to 501(c)(4) organizations are promised confidentiality by law and challenged critics to make public the contributions from opposing organizations.
Never mind the mega trillions spent on the Inflation Reduction Act , the Green New Deal and Covid.
Not to bother complaining or attempting to claw back that wasted money, rather complain about funding for the border which will do no good since its Biden’ policy.
Then just to make a pointless point, withhold funds that are need to fight Islam in Israel and Russia in Ukraine, because some how both are unsavory and not our business.
Clowns will be clowns, I guess.
“Just in the past year, however, we have seen our representatives in both the House and the Senate undermine the will of the people who elected them”
The Deep State is alive and well.
We think we’re being sold representatives.
What we’re actually electing are elite psychological behavior experts, handlers who perform smoke and mirror puppet shows to keep us pacified while they slowly establish the one world government New World Order.
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