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‘It’s Immoral — It Has to Stop’: Ron Johnson Denounces $6.3 Trillion in Congressional Spending
Breitbart ^ | 09/10/2023 | JEFF POOR

Posted on 09/11/2023 7:54:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) decried the immorality of congressional spending levels for 2023.

In 2019, Congress spent $4.4 trillion, Johnson said. In 2023, the federal government is expected to spend $6.3 trillion.

“When I hear bipartisanship — and I asked Nancy, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, about this earlier — that Senate appropriators, and I’m talking about Democrats and Republicans, have gone — they’re working on — to boost spending above the Fiscal Responsibility Act levels by classifying $14 billion of ordinary appropriations as emergency spending,” fill-in host Dagan McDowell said. “What the heck are members of your party doing?”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immoral; johnson; spending; trillion
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Both parties could care less expect for folks like Johnson
1 posted on 09/11/2023 7:54:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

this will never stop as long as “money” can be created out of thin air..............


2 posted on 09/11/2023 8:00:33 AM PDT by wny
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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3 posted on 09/11/2023 8:02:57 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: wny

True. And both parties seem incapable of recognizing the long term problems with deficits, and the national debt ,and unfunded liabilities such as projected future Social Security spending.

Probably, this is due to how politicians look at issues in 2 and 4 year cycles, corresponding to election cycles. If we don’t have a SHTF moment in their term of office, the problem gets kicked down the road.

Neither political party seems capable of dealing with it.


4 posted on 09/11/2023 8:04:54 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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this will never stop as long as “money” can be created out of thin air..............

Bingo! 300 years ago was already accepted as basic economic common sense that a printed, fiat, centrally-controlled currency would ALWAYS benefit government power, its cronies, and corruption. The great trick of progressives and their socialist ilk, was that new "modern" man would be able to efficiently and justly central-plan such things.

5 posted on 09/11/2023 8:05:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The job of Senator and Representative have only one duty - to collect money for their districts & donors.


6 posted on 09/11/2023 8:08:20 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: wny

Spending other people’s money is more addictive than heroin.
When a thief finds other person’s credit card, she spends like a drunken sailor.


7 posted on 09/11/2023 8:10:12 AM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The voters couldn’t care less. They loves them some pork.


8 posted on 09/11/2023 8:11:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’re back to “taxation without representation”. Yes, this is immoral and unethical....then billions go to Ukraine and elsewhere. Just who’s money do they think this is?

Our Constitution lays in tatters.


9 posted on 09/11/2023 8:12:03 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The destruction of the middle class is being done because the two parties want it that way; or at least because they think it is in their immediate best, self-interest. Not even stupidity is a credible alternative explanation.
10 posted on 09/11/2023 8:12:05 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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It’s worth noting that even Trump did not veto a single major spending bill.
So if we can’t get someone like Rand Paul in (and soon), I guess it’s all over but the crying.


11 posted on 09/11/2023 8:17:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: wny

The average fool walking around out there has absolutely no idea how dangerously close we already are to the end of petrodollar dominance, or what sort of pain lies ahead for our country when that arrives.


12 posted on 09/11/2023 8:21:06 AM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Johnson is my #1 choice for VP.


13 posted on 09/11/2023 8:23:18 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The bigger the government the less Freedom.


14 posted on 09/11/2023 8:24:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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this will never stop as long as “money” can be created out of thin air..............
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Eventually that self-implodes. It will happen, coming out of “nowhere.”


15 posted on 09/11/2023 8:33:31 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

We should ask college students and other young people if they are comfortable with $33-34 Trillion in debt. If they are comfortable, they deserve what they get.


16 posted on 09/11/2023 8:36:15 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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--- "In 2019, Congress spent $4.4 trillion, Johnson said. In 2023, the federal government is expected to spend $6.3 trillion."

Add a portion of this not paid for by taxes to the national debt, and the future may be seen rather clearly today.

Irrespective of "petrodollar" and "reserve currency" issues, the largest and most inclusive umbrella over all is that our beloved nation is being bankrupted by POLITICS, benefiting the well-connected and "donor" class now eating away at the middle and lower classes like a grand buffet.

17 posted on 09/11/2023 8:38:08 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: fuzzylogic

government has forgotten that they work for us- they are steeped in tyranny now


18 posted on 09/11/2023 8:42:18 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The House should address this issue not the public. Also do not reconcile with the Senate of President.


19 posted on 09/11/2023 9:41:35 AM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

HOW? How is this possible?


20 posted on 09/11/2023 10:48:50 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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