“That is why you signed up at FR, to tell people to leave it up to democrat voters and for us to just stay out of it?”
I am not discouraging anyone from voting. Just be aware of what the people you vote for are and are not doing.
The power of the purse is the greatest power in the Constitution. This is the power to fund and defund every program, department, and bureaucrat’s salary. Cut off the funding and the EPA cannot shut mandate electric vehicles or shut down the fossil fuel industry. Cut off funding for gain of function research and the taxpayer won’t be helping a foreign lab create the next pandemic. Cut off the funding for Planned Parenthood and there will be fewer abortions. Cut off the funding of leftist social justice organizations and a huge source of revenue supporting left wing politicians will end. Cut off federal funding of the student loan program and there will be no federal student loans fir the president to forgive. Cut off funding of never ending foreign wars we can’t afford and let the rest of the world deal with its problems. Would the world really be any different today if we hadn’t spent trillions conquering, ruling, and then walking away from Afghanistan and Iraq?
The national debt is increasing by $1 trillion every 100 days. Every dollar of that spending is appropriated by Congress. Every appropriations bill is required by the Constitution to originate in the House of Representatives. Republicans have controlled the House, and the appropriations process since January 2023. How many Democrat programs have bern defunded since then? How many billions in discretionary slush funds the president and bureaucrats are free to spend have been eliminated? None. The Democrats have every dollar they want to spend. The same thing happened in the two years the Republicans controlled the House during Trump’s term. The same thing when the Republicans controlled the House during the Bush presidency, and during the Obama years. None of the failed Democrat social programs were defunded. None of the government grants to leftist social justice groups and consulting firms were ended. Instead the national debt kept climbing and the bureaucracy kept growing.
So keep voting. Hope for that day when that GOP Congress critter you elect will actually vote against the obscene, budget busting, last minute omnibus appropriations budget Congress passes every year to avoid a government shutdown. The average Republican Congressman will vote for the big spending bill, then send out a letter to constituents saying he fought the hard fight but in the end had to vote for a less than perfect bill so the all important federal government won’t shut down. Afterward he and his fellow representatives will go out to dinner, congratulating themselves for once again fooling the sheep. Over the next few days tens of thousands of dollars will flow into congressional campaign funds from donors benefiting from the millions in earmarks inserted into the huge bill by staff members just before the vote.
Good conservative citizens will vote for the reelection of their representatives and the cycle will continue until one day the US Treasury conducts a bond auction to fund another trillion in debt snd there are no buyers. On that day the music stops playing and some really hard choices, none of them good and all involving real pain, have to be made by the men and women we have voted into power for decades.
A simple yes would have been shorter.