On Friday, President Trump signed a 1.3 TRILLION dollar “continuing resolution” which will fund the government until September, when again we will be faced with another “Government Shutdown”. This 2200+ page document (published only hours before the vote, so nobody could read, let alone digest, it’s content) has the Democrats positively giddy.
They stuck it to Trump! They got 500 Million for the abortion clinics of Planned Parenthood. They foiled construction of “The Wall” by only authorizing a tiny percentage of the cost of the project. They pushed through funding for many of their pet “Social Welfare “ projects, but they cut loose the “Dreamers” by not including that issue as part of the debate.
They sucked it up and agreed to a massive rebuilding of our military resources, probably hoping they could emasculate ( with the “trasgenders”) those provisions in the future. The Republicans (a great many of them anyway) went along with this charade. This puts us now more than 21 Trillion in debt as a nation, with no end in sight. Disgraceful!
It is becoming more and more apparent that the main goal of most members of both the House and the Senate is simply to get reelected so they can maintain the perks of office. But guess what, ladies and gentlemen of the Congress? It’s not going to work any longer. The public is on to your shenanigans. We’re “Mad As Hell, and We’re Not Going To Take It Anymore!”
There is possibly a way out of this dilemma. It’s the so-called “Penny Plan” proposed by former Florida Republican Congressman Connie Mack in 2012. Simply stated, if ONE PENNY was removed from every dollar spent on all federal programs, the budget would be balanced in SIX YEARS! That’s just ONE PERCENT!
Think about it. If a federal employee makes $3000 per month, their new pay rate would be $2970. Someone on Social Security receiving a benefit of $1500 would now receive $1485. More to the point, a federal program costing $500,000,000 would now cost $450,000,000. As a political wag once put it: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money!”
If these career politicians can’t figure this out, it’s time for the taxpayers of the country to explain it to them. By replacing them with someone who can. We’ve already done that with the Presidency, let’s continue with the Congress.