My daughter and I are fans of Saturday Night Live (SNL), especially their "Really?" segment they do on the Weekend Update. In this segment they take a story from the weeks news and lambast the person who has been arrested or fired for some stupid action on their part. They tare it appart bit by bit and interject their discussion with the question: Really?
Today we have a major problem in Washington dealing with the ever rising debt. The people spoke last November giving power back to the Republicans with the mandate to role in out of control spending. The people are paying attention now and see that the debt is soon going to become, as Obama has said himself, "unsustainable". But instead of dealing with the debt and cutting spending, our leader has decided to "double-down" and increase spending (but calling it: investing).
Really?
The Republicans have promoted cutting spending by 60 Billion dollars (though we have a 1.6 TRILLION dollar short fall. This cut amounts to about a 3% cut overall. But the president has suggested a meeger 6 Billion (or 0.3% from the budget)...To both of these parties I say ....
Really?
Harry Reid has said that the public depends on much of this spending and that without it, jobs will be lost. To prove his point while speaking in the Senate, Harry uses the "Cowboy Poetry Festival" that receives money to support it. That is as best as you can do Harry?...
Really?
To put things into context, if I make $80,000 per year and I decide to cut 0.3% from my budget that would amount to $240 per year that I won't be spending (or 65 cents per day). Will the bank take notice of that and keep from foreclosing on my house?...
Really?
Do you get the feeling that many in Washington are just stalling? Waiting for the debt to compound and finally become unsustainable? That is the feeling I am getting watching this all move in slow motion. I have a nasty feeling that the same people that had 3000 page bills ready for voting when the Democrats took power in 2008 and waiting outside Harry Reid's door with 10,000 page "constitutions" ready to be ratified as a way to fix our "bankrupt government". They have hated our republic for a long time and have done everything in their power to destroy it. "We the People" need to step up and make our politicians listen to our voices and make sure this does not happen
We need to:
- Stop Social Security (slowly over time)
- Reduce our Military budget
- bring home troops from Afghanistan and Iraq
- close bases in Germany and Japan
- get rid of ventures that will not pay off for more than 10 years.
- Get rid of: (especially since Obama apparently doesn't talk to them anyway)
- Dept of Education
- Dept of Energy
- Dept of Housing and Urban Development
- Defund the arts and other non-essential parts of the budget (NPR and PBS)
These are the thing REAL Americans would do if they were in charge.
These are the things we need to do