I just sent this in response to an alarmist e-mail from Pelosi’s office:
YOU and Obama are responsible for the destructive choices as to which programs are funded and which are not.
Collectively, you have ensured the cuts will cause the most pain to the most Americans.
You could have closed the EPA and the IRS and nobody would have cared.
It is a travesty that the Federal government is at all involved in funding ANY local daycare, firefighters, or city and state law enforcement.
There is NO Constitutional authority for ANY of this.
Obama and your buddy Harry need to get off of their dead butts, and CUT SPENDING in your laundry list of vote buying programs.
Leave Air Safety alone and close the EPA.
While your at it, close the TSA and return that function to the private sector, who performs better at one tenth the cost.
Quit pretending there is any willingness on the part of the Senate or the White House to “negotiate” anything.
That dictator in the White House has flatly REFUSED to discuss any spending cuts, while DEMANDING tax increases on the middle class.
Yes, he says he only wants to “tax the rich”, but we both know that won’t come near to funding the level of socialism you folks have in mind.
There’s no point in explaining to you the need to reform the entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Social Security, because you’re quite happy raiding those accounts as long as they remain part of the general fund.
Why do you pretend to suggest a “balanced plan”, when the truth is, you have no such intention?
When 'cuts' are on the table officials talk about having to cut police and fire protection. Government blowhards don't talk about cutting trips to Hawaii for the Water Department or training programs for the Mayors staff in Las Vegas...
We've elected a bunch of lowlifes...
The rot and waste and corruption is deep and systemic.
Love Chris Plante!
Even if these "draconian cuts" are implemented, the federal government will spend more this year than it did last year.
Considering the above facts here is something to consider.
If in the past six years the federal government has grown 40% if we can’t even slow the growth of government by this miniscule <2% can we expect the government to grow by 40% or more in the next 6 years?
If the government grows by 40% in the next 6 years what will be left of/for the private sector? How will the private sector be able to pay for the huge and bloated government?
Beautiful line! I'll have to try it out on some of the libs I can't help but be around...
“the housebroken media credulously report his obviously partisan scare mongering as fact. “
The media makes it’s money from advertisers... who want people to think spending is a good thing and not spending is a bad thing.
The media is just looking out for itself here.
Gullible spenders are their product.
My post on other threads today appears below. If you have seen it, just ignore here.
"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
The principles and ideas underlying America's Constitutional limits on grants of power to elected officials led to individual freedom, opportunity, creativity, wealth creation, and a refuge for oppressed persons from all over the world.
The "liberal" movement which began in the late 1800's, now self-described as the "progressive" movement has brought America's citizens and their economy to this point.
So-called "progressives," in their arrogant and overwhelming desire for accumulation of power for themselves, readily acknowledge the taxing power as a useful tool for restraining motivation toward what they deem to be undesirable behavior.
On the other hand, they deny the certain fact that "taking," or taxing productive citizens also discourages and restrains opportunity and motivation toward productivity, wealth creation, and saving.
Democrats, under Obama, now have endangered the liberty of millions yet unborn with their illogical arguments on behalf of "taking" and "redistributing" the earnings of hard-working Americans. They claim they are "taking care" of those who elected them. Their "taking care" amounts to enslaving every citizen, born and unborn, for generations to come.
Their claims would fall on deaf ears, if most citizens understood their Constitution's limits on the powers of government. Here what some of the Founders said about the policies of today's "progressive" Democrats.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Now that it looks like the "cuts" will really happen, the White Hut and its "media" will start to back-track as soon as it appears that, hey!, the country isn't breaking down. If polls show the people starting to support the "cuts", Zero will start talking out of the other side of his mouth and the "media" will follow suit.
We will then be at war with West Asia. What war with East Asia? We have always been at war with West Asia.