Kick, kick, kick... we've had *decades* of kicking (my entire lifetime with maybe a bit of improvement with Reagan). This is exactly the continuing disaster that we voted AGAINST. Many voted for Trump only in a desperate hope that finally we would get a President with the courage and financial sense to go against popular opinion and actually address the problem with real cuts.
No waiting. No waiting for another election. That's a lame excuse. Veto that bill! Stop spending! Yes, it's going to hurt (some), but better a lot of hurt now than catastrophic hurt later.
We are repeating ourselves a lot, but it seems that humanity is foolish and incapable of understanding some basic concepts.
Sure "finances" confuse a lot of people, but as a basic simplification: "you can not continue to spend more than you earn forever".
But instead of facing this basic fact, the population continues to encourage the government to spend more and more, ignoring the signs of decay (inflation). People blame inflation on all kinds of things, yet fail to comprehend that inflation is due to big government growing even bigger.
My head hurts, so I'm going to make this simple. We've all heard the term "big tent." I'm not talking about the Christian band from the 90's or Barnum and Bailey. In politics, the generic term loosely means inviting as many people as you can into your sphere of political influence while claiming to give them a voice. In reality, what it means simply is making room in the tent to spend more taxpayer dollars for more people through promises of some pipe-dream that will magically balance itself "somewhere down the road." In other words growing the bureaucratic state even more to accommodate your new converts with promises made, to go along with the back room deals to maintain said party's slice of the political power-scape.
While I am impressed with the speed at which has moved to expose and dismantle corrupt orgs, I am not surprised at his fiscal policy, which looks to be more of the same as his first go-around which does nothing to actually shrink the size of government and saddles future generations to ever-increasing debt, virtually enslaving the populace to the federal bureaucracy, and not just in practice only!
This is yet another shining example of the dems and gop being 2 sides of the same coin. They wag fingers at each other and nothing TRULY ever gets "FIXED" in the process.
The primary objective of a politician is to get elected in the first place. Once in office their focus turns DIRECTLY to getting RE-elected. If they make a tiny scratch in the armor that shields the political powers that be, that's great to help in the bid for re-election. But I doubt very seriously that the boat will barely move in the calm waters. Tipping it would be catastrophic for their hopes of staying in office.
If you ask me it is long past time to "form a more perfect union.".... AGAIN.
I'm of the mindset, let's bring back the Articles of Confederation and force the states to act as the sovereign nation states they were intended to be, and as we see often in nature, "survival of the fittest."
I would be on board with that. After all, the Constitution wasn't supposed to change much from the AoC - just gave the federal government more structure and some teeth to actually write laws and lay direct taxes. It's gone way beyond that though due to spurious (un)"constitutional" interpretation.
Something to remember, IF the 'government" "shuts down" , the ones that "run it" will Still Get Paid. The Military and peons Won't get Paid, But Will Have To Work.
Kick, kick, kick... we've had *decades* of kicking (my entire lifetime with maybe a bit of improvement with Reagan). This is exactly the continuing disaster that we voted AGAINST. Many voted for Trump only in a desperate hope that finally we would get a President with the courage and financial sense to go against popular opinion and actually address the problem with real cuts.
No waiting. No waiting for another election. That's a lame excuse. Veto that bill! Stop spending! Yes, it's going to hurt (some), but better a lot of hurt now than catastrophic hurt later.
I couldn’t agree more.
We are repeating ourselves a lot, but it seems that humanity is foolish and incapable of understanding some basic concepts.
Sure "finances" confuse a lot of people, but as a basic simplification: "you can not continue to spend more than you earn forever".
But instead of facing this basic fact, the population continues to encourage the government to spend more and more, ignoring the signs of decay (inflation). People blame inflation on all kinds of things, yet fail to comprehend that inflation is due to big government growing even bigger.
My head hurts, so I'm going to make this simple. We've all heard the term "big tent." I'm not talking about the Christian band from the 90's or Barnum and Bailey. In politics, the generic term loosely means inviting as many people as you can into your sphere of political influence while claiming to give them a voice. In reality, what it means simply is making room in the tent to spend more taxpayer dollars for more people through promises of some pipe-dream that will magically balance itself "somewhere down the road." In other words growing the bureaucratic state even more to accommodate your new converts with promises made, to go along with the back room deals to maintain said party's slice of the political power-scape.
While I am impressed with the speed at which has moved to expose and dismantle corrupt orgs, I am not surprised at his fiscal policy, which looks to be more of the same as his first go-around which does nothing to actually shrink the size of government and saddles future generations to ever-increasing debt, virtually enslaving the populace to the federal bureaucracy, and not just in practice only!
This is yet another shining example of the dems and gop being 2 sides of the same coin. They wag fingers at each other and nothing TRULY ever gets "FIXED" in the process.
The primary objective of a politician is to get elected in the first place. Once in office their focus turns DIRECTLY to getting RE-elected. If they make a tiny scratch in the armor that shields the political powers that be, that's great to help in the bid for re-election. But I doubt very seriously that the boat will barely move in the calm waters. Tipping it would be catastrophic for their hopes of staying in office.
If you ask me it is long past time to "form a more perfect union.".... AGAIN.
I'm of the mindset, let's bring back the Articles of Confederation and force the states to act as the sovereign nation states they were intended to be, and as we see often in nature, "survival of the fittest."
I would be on board with that. After all, the Constitution wasn't supposed to change much from the AoC - just gave the federal government more structure and some teeth to actually write laws and lay direct taxes. It's gone way beyond that though due to spurious (un)"constitutional" interpretation.
Something to remember, IF the 'government" "shuts down" , the ones that "run it" will Still Get Paid. The Military and peons Won't get Paid, But Will Have To Work.