After seven months of being delinquent, today the House of Representatives finally passed the 2011 Budget. Unfortunately, it's a loser for the nation as no real cuts were made upon examination of the final legislation. The final result: about $350 million in cuts. Yes, that's right. Million. If this was a state budget, that might be a meaningful cut. However we're speaking of the over bloated federal government budget that totals around $3.8 TRILLION dollars. This is so meaningless it's pointless to calculate the percentage as it's so far under 1% it's laughable. Include the fact that that "one time" stimulus spending has been built into the budget "permanently", it's inexcusable that any fiscally sane person would vote for this.
Conclusion: Only 59 Republican incumbents deserve to be re-elected in 2012 in the House.
In fact, they're the only ones that deserve to be re-elected in the entire body. All the Democrats that voted against the bill did the "right" thing for the wrong reasons -- they believed it actually cut TOO MUCH.
Boehner doesn't deserve to be in the House of Representatives, let alone be Speaker. He threw away his biggest political weapon in the negotiations (a government furlough of non-essential employees and services) before the negotiations even started. He also low-balled the original cuts at about 2.6% of the $3.8T budget, then quickly got whittled down from there. Anyone who has ever purchased a car knows negotiating tactics better than the current Speaker of the House.
So the result: another trillion plus dollar deficit, which can't even be explained as being put on a credit card -- because a large chunk of this "financing" is coming from printing money, and purchasing our own debt through Federal Reserve shenanigans since nobody else will buy it anymore due to the reckless irresponsible spending that has been occurring the last few years 2007-2010, and now by virtue of incompetent and spineless politicians in the House, 2011.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution has been proposed, and it's a good one. All 47 Republicans in the Senate have signed on to support a Constitutional amendment that would fix the financial problems in the country from getting any worse -- overnight.
The biggest aspect of the amendment states that the federal government can spend only 18% of the nation's GDP unless a declaration of war has been made. This by itself is huge in that it would immediately reduce government spending from the outrageous rate of 25% of GDP that it is now under Obama, to 18% .. lower than it was during the Bush Administration.
Other aspects of the amendment include needing super majorities of Congress to raise taxes and the debt limit, requiring Congress to balance the budget and the President to submit a balanced budget. This amendment will finally force the spendaholics to put a finite amount of money where it is needed most -- prioritize in other words -- just like we have to do in the real world. And since there's a cap on spending, statist "liberals" will not be able to balance the budget by increasing taxes and spending at the same time -- they can only spend a set amount of money per fiscal year.
It's nice to see the new Senators like Mike Lee and Rand Paul getting a coherent solution put together and supported. Of course this is a long way from being approved -- super majorities of the Senate and House have to approve the amendment before it is sent out to be ratified by the States. The good news however is, since so many State Legislatures were taken over by Republicans in the 2010 race, if the amendment can get out of Congress then it is almost assuredly going to be ratified.
Still a big if -- but it's just the beginning of gathering support for this. If statist "liberals" refuse to go along -- which they undoubtedly will -- they will have to be exposed and further voted out until this thing is passed. This has to be made the top priority and campaign issue alongside the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This political one-two punch to the statist "liberals" will be the combination to knock them out of power and get the financial health of this nation turned around in short order.
The biggest aspect of the amendment states that the federal government can spend only 18% of the nation's GDP unless a declaration of war has been made. This by itself is huge in that it would immediately reduce government spending from the outrageous rate of 25% of GDP that it is now under Obama, to 18% .. lower than it was during the Bush Administration.
Other aspects of the amendment include needing super majorities of Congress to raise taxes and the debt limit, requiring Congress to balance the budget and the President to submit a balanced budget. This amendment will finally force the spendaholics to put a finite amount of money where it is needed most -- prioritize in other words -- just like we have to do in the real world. And since there's a cap on spending, statist "liberals" will not be able to balance the budget by increasing taxes and spending at the same time -- they can only spend a set amount of money per fiscal year.
It's nice to see the new Senators like Mike Lee and Rand Paul getting a coherent solution put together and supported. Of course this is a long way from being approved -- super majorities of the Senate and House have to approve the amendment before it is sent out to be ratified by the States. The good news however is, since so many State Legislatures were taken over by Republicans in the 2010 race, if the amendment can get out of Congress then it is almost assuredly going to be ratified.
Still a big if -- but it's just the beginning of gathering support for this. If statist "liberals" refuse to go along -- which they undoubtedly will -- they will have to be exposed and further voted out until this thing is passed. This has to be made the top priority and campaign issue alongside the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This political one-two punch to the statist "liberals" will be the combination to knock them out of power and get the financial health of this nation turned around in short order.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Why the RNC is a failure
Today I got a "poll" in the mail from the Republican National Committee asking who I would prefer as presidential nomination for 2012 from their selected individuals. The reason I put poll in quotes is that it really is a donation seeking mailer.
Mostly the poll comes down to "would you vote for someone associated with the TEA party movement or no?"
Even after the landslide in November they have to ask whether people are on board with slashing spending to the bone and not raising taxes.
Add to this the fact that today is the 7th of March and they want the poll (and money) sent back by the 11th. Well, in case you haven't noticed guys, economic times are still bad, and people budget their money ahead a lot further than four days. Even if I was going to send money to the RNC (which I wouldn't), you better start giving people more than four days to come up with the $25 minimum you're begging for. Whoever you have doing this operation needs to be fired, along with a bunch of other idiots you have over there.
Intelligent people like me are going to give directly to candidates of their choosing, or to organizations like Senator Demint's Senate Conservatives Fund. Organizations that actually understand what people want, and it isn't more liberal RINO Republicans that the RNC has always supported, including in the 2010 elections.
Mostly the poll comes down to "would you vote for someone associated with the TEA party movement or no?"
Even after the landslide in November they have to ask whether people are on board with slashing spending to the bone and not raising taxes.
Add to this the fact that today is the 7th of March and they want the poll (and money) sent back by the 11th. Well, in case you haven't noticed guys, economic times are still bad, and people budget their money ahead a lot further than four days. Even if I was going to send money to the RNC (which I wouldn't), you better start giving people more than four days to come up with the $25 minimum you're begging for. Whoever you have doing this operation needs to be fired, along with a bunch of other idiots you have over there.
Intelligent people like me are going to give directly to candidates of their choosing, or to organizations like Senator Demint's Senate Conservatives Fund. Organizations that actually understand what people want, and it isn't more liberal RINO Republicans that the RNC has always supported, including in the 2010 elections.
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