You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel! Matthew 23:24 (AMP)
While congress squabbles over nickels and dimes the federal government hemorrhages billions of dollars a day. While we are forced to endure one continuing resolution after another the majority of the federal government continues to operate on auto-pilot. Federal programs continue to implement new regulations in the order of thousands a year. Thousands of pages of new federal guidelines continue to spew out of the multitude of bureaus and departments in the bowels of the federal government. As we are reduced to swatting at gnats by arguing over discretionary spending the federal entitlement programs continue to balloon out of control.
Both parties are rejoicing in the recent compromise on budget cuts, but while
they were negotiating, federal spending continued unabated. The federal government spent more in one week than the politicians managed to cut for the rest of the year.
With deficits running over a trillion dollars, a mere $38 billion in cuts is ridiculous. They boast about killing gnats while the American people are forced to swallow one federal camel after another.
Why should the American people continue to have to pony up for reckless federal spending? We have no say in how this money is spent, who is hired or fired, whether anyone should get a raise or not, which projects should or should not be funded but every year the federal government gets bigger and spends more money then the year before and "we the people" have to dig deeper to pay for it all. When we do say "no" we are called extremists or racists or other derogatory terms.
I for one have lost all patience and tolerance for politicians who continue to tell me that there is nowhere in the federal government they can cut. They have no problem cutting my pay by taking more of my hard-earned money through taxation or regulation. We the people have to keep doing without so that the federal government can to continue to run full speed ahead with all systems go. Does that make sense to anyone?
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Article comments
1 - Glenn Contrarian
Notice, though, that HALF the solution that Reagan presented is "we haven't taxed enough"....
2 - Allen Scott
Actually what Reagan said we have a problem not because we do not tax enough but because we spend too much. The awful truth is government has never learned to live with less they always every year spend more than the year before. So the only hope for America will come from an individual level perhaps we producers all need to go Galt. Who is John Galt?