Smoke and Mirror Budgets
Trillions of dollars. They want to cuts trillions of dollars!! Can you believe those heartless Republicans. Speaker Boehner was on the television wanting to cut over 1 trillion dollars from the U.S. federal budget. Clearly it’s because the 2011 US Budget has a shortfall of over 1.4 trillion dollars. He’s trying to balance the budget and he doesn’t care how much it will hurt all of the people who need help. Heartless, uncaring, draconian, drastic cuts.
Like his Democrat counterparts, the Speaker is simply practicing the Washington D.C. art of ‘Smoke and Mirror’ budgeting. He indeed has made a proposal cutting over a trillion dollars in government spending; over the next 10 years. Yes, the cuts the speaker is proposing, even if they were to actually take place would happen as about a billion dollars a month. Less than 1 percent of the current federal budget. And in exchange the government gets an increase in its’ ability to borrow and spend even more money… not over the next ten years but right now.
The biggest issue with the delayed cuts that are being proposed is this Congress can’t mandate the cuts take place during a future Congress. But this Congress can pass on the debt to future Congress’ to deal with, and this has been the issue for 40 years. The debt keeps growing and being passed on to be someone else’s problem. It has to stop.
This isn’t how I run my house and I’m sure it’s not how you run yours. But it’s how the speaker runs his. These D.C. tactics have to stop. If we can’t find a way to stop spending more than we take in, at some point raising the credit limit on the national credit card isn’t going to be an option.
We the people must stop accepting these smoke and mirror tactics and demand real cuts in spending, not 10 years from now but this year. We must demand higher federal revenues, not from raising taxes on those of us who already pay more than our fair share, but from the other half of the country that pay no income taxes and usually get money from the government. It’s not that we don’t pay enough, it’s that not enough of us pay.
But I’m just sayin’…
Steve
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