Listening to our elected officials say we're making cuts with a hatchet instead of a scalpel is ludicrous and insulting to any intelligent American today. During the last five years, during this recession how many families have had to cut back 20%, 30%, or more? Our average income has dropped over $3000 a year, our taxes and insurance (including health- thank you Obamacare!) have risen, our utilities, gasoline, and groceries have all skyrocketed, resulting in a much lower cost of living. And our government can't find 3% to cut? Instead our President says we need more revenues- a fancy way of saying he wants to raise taxes! He preaches to the middle class and poor that we need to tax the "rich" because they have it and you don't. Well friends, beware- that's Socialism, pure and simple. You might get the hand out today but this same government will take it from you tomorrow when it needs it and you got it. Don't be fooled by the flowery words and rhetoric- Washington wants more money because the greed is rampant and they want to spend more and more!
Now, to scare people into going along with his agenda this Administration has released criminal illegal aliens that were in jail and marked for deportment back into society because they "are afraid the money won't be there to house these illegals due to Government cutbacks caused by the sequestration cuts". But these illegals were released before any cuts even took effect! Clearly a political ploy by the White House and the President. Only the White House issued a statement saying the President didn't know anything about this. Well Mr President, this falls under Homeland Security and you should know what's going on in your own home, your own Cabinet. Just like you claimed to know nothing of Benghazi- this smacks of "plausible deniability". Intelligent Americans should see right through this charade and hold you accountable for releasing these criminals, this act of terrorism perpetrated on American soil!
So how do we limit the damage our elected officials seem to do to our "process"?
I propose the following:
1.Term limits on government service. Limit 10 years in any branch. That means term limits on our Supreme Court justices too.
2. Any law enacted by Congress is a law that applies to all people- Congress cannot exempt itself out.
3. Cut out the extravagant "lifetime" pensions and benefits of Congress. Give a pension equal to time served- up to 10 years. And only one government pension per person. Also, a person must serve at least two years in a position to qualify for a pension at that level (stops promoting someone for a week or two before retirement to get a higher pension amount).
4. Stop giving out foreign aid to any country that is not an ally or working toward a democratic society. It's insanity that we give aid to our enemies!
5. If our Senate doesn't put forward a budget as they are Constitutionally required to then they don't get paid. We currently pay our senators for not doing their job!
6. Limit the amount of money candidates can spend on elections or have in their "war chests" to, say, $25 million. Anything over that amount will be applied to the national debt until it is paid. I believe limiting the amount each candidate can spend will do several things- first it will level the playing field so more than just the "rich" can run for office, and second, by limiting monies available to spend it will force candidates to really consider what to spend their money on- their platform and positions, or negative, mud-slinging campaign ads... If you can't get your message across with $25 mil you shouldn't be running! we can't afford people who can't budget anymore!
7. No more welfare "hand outs". If people need help I'm all for giving it to them, but they should give something in return. Instead of just passing out welfare checks let's have these people clean our parks, or pick up trash along our roadways. Let's have them help clean our public buildings and government facilities. Allowing people to earn their checks will instill some self-worth in them that hand outs just can't create. And if people don't like what they have to do for their money I'm sure they'll find another way to earn money.
8. No more tax refunds for people who don't pay taxes. We have child credits, earned income credits, etc., that allow people who never pay a penny of taxes to collect refunds! How do you refund something from nothing? (Only in America!)
9. And speaking of taxes- If you don't pay taxes you don't get to vote. Tax payers should get to say how their money is being spent, but with now some 47% of Americans not paying taxes it is getting more and more difficult to curb the policies of the freeloaders and their politicians...
10. Stop buying oil from our enemies. We're sitting on more oil than anyone (with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia) and rather than develop our own and become energy independent our President cancelled leases and virtually stopped private exploration and development (at a cost of thousands of private sector jobs- who paid income taxes, and sales taxes, etc which would "increase revenues" like the President claims he wants).
There's some ideas to head us down the road to recovery and limit the greed and coruption in Washington. But we're all flawed, and we must realize that anyone we send to represent us may be susceptible to the temptations that greed presents... If sin were ugly it would be easy to resist... But enough rambling for today...
Food for thought.
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