Lately I have heard that this past Congress has spent more than the fist 100 Congresses combined. Considering this past Congress is the 111th that seemed like a fairytale, and it was hard to believe. I went to research this and the only place I could find that fact was on conservative news presses, there was nothing coming up on mainstream media. So I went to the treasury site and started breaking it down for myself. They are right! Why is that not being reported?
Regardless of what your political views are we all agree that living within your means is an absolute. When you think about putting the national debt (which is not just this and the former administration’s fault, this has been decades of doing) in perspective with an average individual that is making 100k a year, that person’s credit card debt would be around a million dollars. We would think that person was insane and understand that they would never get out from underneath that kind of debt nor would his kids, grandkids, and great-grandchildren.
Obviously the politicians have a serious spending problem! Everyone of us would questions the judgement if an individual behaved like this with their own life, why are we not doing the same with politicians that are in charge of spending the taxpayer’s money to make this country a great place?
Regardless if we need healthcare reform, extensions on unemployment, bail outs of companies, the first thing that the politicians should ask is can we afford it and if we can’t and it is important to us, then what do we have to get rid of or cut down in order to make that happen? I know that is how I have to live.
When an average person hears that the national debt is around 14 trillion dollars, it is a number that is so hard to conceive, that we just blow it off. But when you put that number into perspective to someone who deals in just thousands, not billions or trillions, it changes its shape to having a great deal of concern.
Today Congress changed hands, and there was a lot of grand standing and show-boating of reading the Constitution like it was the first day of grammar school. Politicians as a whole are not trust worthy and they should have been reading the Constitution decades ago. It is like someone with their New Year’s Resolution diet plan; we all know how those work out in the end. Unfortunately, it looks like we need Congressional Spending Gastric Bypass, not Constitutional Weight Watchers. Counting points to cut spending is not going to cut it, we need an extreme and invasive spending cuts that may be hard to digest to get us on the right track.
It is time to wake up America, this is our future and it is in some seriously scary hands on both sides. We are the ones that can change this, not Congress or any politician in Washington DC. We need to start holding these overpaid, out of touch, on their own health care plans, guaranteed retirements and the “unlimited credit card” funded by us, the world and our future generations accountable and really see what is happening on the Hill.
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