President Obama has some nerve to attack our country's most vulnerable with threats they may not get their checks on August 3! by Gwen Caldwell
(libertarian)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Balancing a budget and the federal deficit is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of who gets how much of what they want. Perhaps thats all fine and well for everyone except for we the people. It doesnt matter what divide and conquer enemy they have created for us to buy into this week. This is about government functioning in a responsible way with our resources. This de facto foreign corporate government is creating a train wreck that we are going to be on as they pull this country over the cliff. Wake up!!
There are two ways to meet any budget. If you dont have enough money to pay debt then you either cut your expenses or you figure out how to generate more income. So which of these two are the Democrats and Republicans fighting over? I find it amusing at best that through all the budget discussions there has not been one mention of our elected servants giving up anything like a cut in pay, pensions or benefits. Not a peep about all of the bloated non-governmental agencies that have no constitutional authority to exist anyway being cut or simply retired. Instead the President gets on the national news and threatens those who are most vulnerable with the possibility of them not getting their checks on August 3! These are the people who have spent a lifetime of paying into the system and they are the ones who will suffer?! You have got to be frigging kidding me! Oh, will instill a little fear into the hearts of the people, so Congress will dance with us?! This is absolutely sickening and unacceptable!
Why dont we start by the government who got us into this mess NOT getting paid in August! How about a directive that would impose a flat 22%-25% cut in expenditures from the budget of every Department in the government? These cuts could not be removed or taken from benefits to the people. Those less necessary agencies like the Department of Homeland Security could lay off all of their gropingTSAagents. How about we stop all foreign aid and aid our own country for a change? How about we stop kidnapping children from their parents and giving federal financial aid for them to be adopted to professional parents who get more welfare benefits than the parents ever thought about getting?! Why not cut NASAs budget? We dont need to take care of space if it is at the expense of our people! Instead of bloating the military industrial complex with another 17 billion dollars in the budget, why not end all these illegal and senseless wars and bring our military personnel home. Close at least half of our foreign military bases, that in and of itself should save a whole bunch of money.
This whole raising the debt ceiling is a crazy proposition! All it seems to be is a partisan pissing contest! It just so happens that all the pissing going on is landing on the people!
You cannot keep doing the same things and expect to get different results. Its time for our Congress to step up to the plate and make the tough decisions and then NEVER again do those things that got us into this mess in the first place.
I urge each and every one of you to contact your Congressional members and demand that they not raise the debt limit! They need to put their energy into reducing their spending. They need to go on a massive fiscal diet! Our country is in peril. The time to take action is now! We need to send a clear message to DC that we want fiscal and financial matters taken more seriously and that the corporate welfare has to stop! I want my country back and I am asking for your help in this effort. Please call and or write to your elected public servants today!
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Posted By: rwilymz
Date: July 14, 2011 12:00:42 PM
there has not been one mention of our elected servants giving up anything like a cut in pay, pensions or benefits
I'm not against everything being trimmed back, but you have to understand the math involved:
The issue is in the trillions, you are proposing a value in the millions. You are talking about 0.0001% of the problem.
Not a peep about all of the bloated non-governmental agencies that have no constitutional authority to exist anyway being cut or simply retired
This is more like it: the regulatory authorities spend hundreds of billions annually. This can be upper single-digit percentages of the problem.
Instead the President gets on the national news and threatens those who are most vulnerable with the possibility of them not getting their checks on August 3!
Which "most vulnerable" is that? Every time some new issue surfaces those who are affected by it are "the most vulnerable".
There's a group-psychological phenomenon called "sympathy overload". You play the sympathy card too often and people stop finding any sympathy to give. I have a feeling that's at play generally in our society; I KNOW it's at play with me.
What you're talking about is my mother and possibly yours not getting their SocSec checks starting next month. Well, um ... sorry. But what happened to your previous outrage over non-constitutional government expenditures? Social Security isn't authorized by the Constitution either. "Vulnerability" has nothing to do with it; old-age pensions - regardless of how pittance-y they are - is not the job of the federal government.
The problem is in the trillions. Taxing Barama's CEO for his company jet is another 0.0001% solution; the solution is entitlements. ...what you spend the latter half of the essay lauding as "aid to the people". There is no Constitutional authority to "aid the people", either. Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, "welfare", Social Security ... all entitlements, none allowed.
