Posted on 10/06/2013 10:57:08 AM PDT by Innovative
Its hard to believe, but America hasnt had a budget since Barack Obama took over the White House and Harry Reid took over the Senate.
Why arent Republicans using this ongoing travesty as a weapon in their seemingly hopeless congressional fight to defund Obamacare? Every American understands what a budget is. Every family has to have one. Why not the country? Its a constitutional issue, yet no one cares.
Instead of a federal budget, what weve been getting under the Reid/Obama regime for five years has been a series of continuing resolutions to fund our bloated government.
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But when did anyone with a "budget" ever care about the "budget" of their neighbor or the guy down the street?
We have become so isolated from one another that people by and large don't care about anyone else's budget but their own.
So why should they care about the National Budget when they've been told by the powers that be that such a concept doesn't make sense?
After all, don't we conservatives make the argument that we can't treat relations with our foreign allies and enemies the same way we treat our friends and foes here in the US? Don't we make the claim that it is too naive to extrapolate our feelings for our fellow Americans to our foreign policy.
Then why isn't it equally naive to extrapolate family budgets to the federal budget?
The real reason that the feds should not be allowed to run deficits is because that is the main driver for moving decisions from the local level toward the state and federal level. If every other governmental entity has to stay within budget then they can only do so much before they run out of money or have to beg for support from the state or from the feds. And with that support comes strings that require those localities to do things the way the feds want them to be done.
Sometimes when Republicans are successful in the short run in lowering local taxes they end up making things worse in the long run by ensuring that more things end up being paid for by the state or the feds. I believe this is what has happened in California with Prop. 13: local property taxes have been kept relatively low, but now the state seems to have its tentacles in everything as cities and counties have gone begging to the state for money they can't get from property taxes:
1) Republicans get elected and lower local taxes
2) People want more goodies so they elect Democrats
3) Democrats get the money from the state or feds with all of the associated strings and red tape
4) Rinse and repeat
I don't care if they have to keep the US government shut down until 2016, whatever it takes, whatever the cost, DO NOT GIVE IN.
Heck, you guys have nothing to fear (except the conservatives you represent!)
Due to the way districts are drawn the vast majority of our representatives have ZERO chance of losing the next election, no matter how many people are unhappy with the shut down.
It doesn't matter if even 70% of the people are against us, if they are all clustered in a few states or districts we don't control any way and wont control no matter what we do or don't do.
Our conservative representatives just need to heed the will of THEIR constituents and let the rest of the US stick it where the sun don't shine.
That’s false. The majority of constituents who depend on government for revenues are also to blame. They elect and control the politicians.
It’s the republicans’ fault for no budget. Harry Reid and Obama said so! /s
our budget situation:
US Tax revenue 2,170,000,000,000
FED Budget 3,820,000,000,000
new debt 1,650,000,000,000
National debt 14,271,000,000,000
Recent cuts 38,500,000,000
now, let’s take away 8 zeros and pretend it is a household budget
Family income 21,700
Money spent 38,200
new debt 16,500
total debt 142,710
recent cuts 38.50
Got it? Good!
Now let’s talk about the raising the debt ceiling:
You come home from work one day to find that the sewer in your neighborhood has backed up. Your home has sewage all the way up to the ceiling. What should you do?
raise the ceilings or remove the sh!t?
The low information voter doesn't.
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