I am all for us being more fiscally responsible too. It's the reason I was once a registered Republican.
But show me ANY Republican President this century who could be described as "fiscally responsible"? And where the fcuk were those "We need to put the breaks on spending" Republican members of Congress during the Trump and Bush Presidencies??!?
The US Constitution is very clear and specific on who manages the money at the federal level and it's not the President. ALL Bills related to funding and taxation must originate in the House of Representatives. Congress has the power of the purse ,not the President . The President can either sign it or veto it ,but it's Congreses responsibility to figure the taxation and spending levels.
Prior to 9/11/01 we actually had proposed budgets ,with proposed taxes and spending and real negotiating. Since then the Federal government politicians , and yes its Republicans and Denocrats , have treated this process with abuse and the media has pitched it and their claims that everything is a crisis . If we don't act now ,if we don't spend now the sky will fall ( pick your subject) . It's constant crisis in DC and our thoughtless spending reflects it and in my observation every law passed has a title and if you flipp the title around that's what it really does . It does the apposite of what they claim.
Take the latest Inflation Reduction Act, it actually was the green new deal repackaged and has zero to do with inflation ,but in crisis mode we had to have it. It must be passed now to tame inflation. I don't care where you stand on climate change but the core trigger to inflation is the costs of energy and diesel fuel in particular. Our food is dependent upon diesel fuel for running tractors to pumps for irrigation and such. Our crops are fertilized by petrol chemical based fertilizers. The harvested crops are sent to market on trucks run on diesel. When the government restricts supply on oil and gas it sends a signal in the market to drive up prices on oil futures in the commodities market . That in turns drives up the prices of oil trades which in the end drives up energy costs . So when farmers have to pay essentially twice the amount for fuel and fertilizers guess what has to happen? Food prices go up. Then everything goes up .
I suppose my point is the government law which claims to do X really is doing Y and nothing to solve X other than making X worse .
I actually could care less if government shuts down for a few weeks. Part of me is jaded because the same assholes told me I had to close for 16 weeks during covid while Walmart ,target and others raked in the cash. My government didn't care about my business,my family or my crew. We gotta close because you're nonessential but for me my business was very essential to my family and our financial future. I am willing to bet very few here would actually notice a negative change in our lives if the government shut down for a few weeks . We need to shut the government down to slow the spread of spending. It's a crisis! 😆
I hate the Democrats for what they do and I can't stand the Republicans for what they don't do. My work,my time and my business contributes around $100k in revenue to the Federal government every year. And every year , politicians abuse it by wasting it, They waste it on interests paid on a debt that is out of control.
They ,the good Democrats and the idiot Republicans do not respect the time and work of the American middle class, the small businesses and the working folks of this nation. They insult us daily with the laws they pass which only drive up costs to live and exists here . They send our money all over the globe while homeless veterans starve and commit suicide.
They do nothing about the onslaught of humanity at the southern border mean while a few weeks ago in my community 3 illegal Honduran teens driving a car drunk (violating numerous state laws) crash over a cliff. Two of them die after being discovered about 18 hours after the accident and one is airlifted to a trauma one level hospital. Meanwhile you and I pick up the bill, well really I do because it happened in NC. That singular event costs tax payers well over $500,,000 between the extraction of the accident itself and the kid who was airlifted and provided ICU level life savings medical care . Yet Congress does ZERO! The tragic part of this is if those teenage boys stayed in Honduras they would be alive today. They came here unaccompanied because there was a plea to raise to money to send their dead bodies back to their parents in Honduras.
It's time for my government to respect its people and the work they do day in and day out to pay taxes to support it.
