Posted on 05/25/2019 3:28:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Something good happened in Congress this week. One lone freshman representative from Texas stood up and blocked legislation that put the taxpayer on the hook for tens of billion in new spending without any concern for finding ways to pay for it.
Three cheers to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX).
Congressman Roy stood up on the House floor and used the most powerful words a member can use to block legislation brought up under unanimous consent – “I object.” In typical fashion, the main stream media will try to blame the victim, rather than the perp of this assault on the taxpayer. Congress has sat on this bill all year, then dared any Republican to block it with a last-minute request that it pass unanimously mere minutes before they were scheduled for a 10-day vacation. This is not how Congress is supposed to work.
A CNN story cited Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as saying, “countless American families hit by devastating natural disasters across the country will now be denied the relief they urgently need." A fact checker could have pointed out that nothing prevented the speaker from scheduling a vote today or putting off the recess scheduled until June 3rd for a few more days. Somehow the hero who stands up and exposes the lazy legislative schedule of Congress is demonized as if it is his fault that the speaker tried to ram almost $20 billion in new spending down the throats of the taxpayer with no debate and no amendment.
Rep. Roy posted a statement on his website explaining his objection, “today I stood to object to the Unanimous Consent of a $19.1 billion dollar emergency supplemental bill that has been languishing for over 8 months because Speaker Pelosi would rather play politics on impeachment than do the work of the people. I objected primarily because had I not, Congress would have passed into law a bill that spends a significant amount of taxpayer money without members of Congress even being present in our nation's capitol to vote on it. Speaker Pelosi knew full well that a disaster bill may be coming from the Senate and yet chose to recess the House and then brought this forward for consent.” Roy is right to call Pelosi’s bluff.
Congress does not work as it is supposed because the leadership of both parties don’t want to shut off the spigot of billions in borrowed money they get to spend every year. The idea of debate and amendments to legislation is long gone. The new method of legislating is to use intimidation and bullying tactics to get individual members and the minority party submission. This disaster relief bill is a great example of how these tactics don’t always work. Congress is lazy and will try to fear monger that Rep. Roy has hurt people to distract from the fact that this most recent ten-day Memorial Day paid vacation for Congress was more important than passing the disaster relief bill to help people in need. If this was truly a crisis, Speaker Pelosi would have Congress on a plane back to Washington tomorrow to get this vote done.
Rep. Roy identified the biggest landmine with this legislation. It spends about $19 billion in new debt. We are a nation that is staring down $22 trillion in national debt with $2 trillion in annual debt predicted in the next few years because of entitlements and interest on the debt. If Congress wants to add to the debt, they need to find a way to pay for it.
The sad truth is that the leadership in both parties do not care about spending taxpayer cash. Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress are in the midst of secretly negotiating away the so called “Sequester” of scheduled annual cuts to spending as a result of a spending agreement on a debt limit hike a few years ago. Spending deals and “emergency” spending all adds to the money owed by the taxpayer to the federal government.
Thank you, Rep. Chip Roy for being a counterbalance to the establishment leaders of both parties who have spending on autopilot and the Democratic Socialists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who wants to expand the borrowed money spent by the government on the Green New Deal. At least there is one Member of Congress who has the bravery to stand up for the taxpayer.
We should return the favor, and spend all theirs! Seize their assets to pay off the debt NOW!
I know this violates the 4th, but they seem to not be under the rules of OUR Constitution anyway!
I guess I am just not smart enough. I certainly can’t spend money I do not have indefinitely: once the credit sources are maxed, I am done.
But these folks have figured out a way to do it with no repercussions and do it year after year. They just print more money and go on.
Amazing to see, really. We SAY they are spending our children into oblivion but are they? No tab ever seems to come due.
And its not just us...its the whole world.
Like I said...not too smart here...
Chip Roy for President 2024
No! He’s done one thing. We honor people for doing their job way too much.
Farmers in the southeast pay taxes and for nearly a year have not gotten any help from the devastation of the hurricanes. I’m glad so many Freepers think that’s a good thing but its going to cost Republicans a lot of votes real soon if it doesnt change. This sudden concern for spending is touching indeed.
They pay state taxes, too. How much have their states ponied up in aid....?
I called Congressman Jody Hice (10th district of GA) and Senator David Perdue’s local and Washington offices and voiced disapproval of their lack of action on this bill.
I am glad this is getting light. Now maybe we can get some funding for the border thrown in while cutting aide to Puerto Rico.
I understand from his interview last night with Mark Levin that the bill is laden with pork.
For what it’s worth, and I say this as someone who once spent months living in a natural disaster zone, assistance should come three ways and in this order:
1) Personal insurance. And you’d bloody well better take responsibility and have the appropriate coverage for you.
2) State and local aid. This is why you pay state and local taxes, dammit.
3) Fedzilla. As a LAST resort, for disasters of truly biblical proportions.
Government assistance that is.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Given the recent flooding I should have seen this coming, Nancy & Company using “federal” funding for natural disaster relief as a Trojan Horse for politically correct, vote-winning earmark spending.
The problem with such “federal” funding is this. The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds the specific power to tax and spend for natural disaster relief, the feds shouldn’t be taxing and spending for that purpose.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Patriots need to eliminate the unconstitutional middle man, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from “helping” the states to “manage” state revenues that could be used to recover from natural disasters by supporting PDJT to lead the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Corrections, insights welcome.
I completely agree.
For what it’s worth, and I say this as someone who once spent months living in a natural disaster zone, assistance should come three ways and in this order:
1) Personal insurance. And you’d bloody well better take responsibility and have the appropriate coverage for you.
2) State and local aid. This is why you pay state and local taxes, dammit.
3) Fedzilla. As a LAST resort, for disasters of truly biblical proportions.
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