As many of you may know, if the political class does not get its act together by March 1, 2013, automatic Federal government spending cuts will kick in that will reduce government spending by over a trillion dollars over the next ten years. This “sequestering” of budget dollars was agreed to by Congress and Obama in August of 2011 in the debt ceiling negotiations.
While this is a decent first step in reining in government spending, it is still pretty meager. Overall government spending will still increase in the baseline budget view, it will just increase at a somewhat lower rate. Annual spending deficits will continue to mount up, increasing our national debt and burdening future generations of Americans with that debt.
How anemic is this effort at reducing spending? Let’s do some simple math:
- Let’s assume that the ten year trillion dollar spending reduction averages out to about $100 billion a year.
- According to the official White House website, the Federal government will spend about $4.5 trillion in 2017.
- This $4.5 trillion is less than it spent in 2012 but is less than it will likely spend ten years from now, under baseline budget assumptions, so the 2017 estimate is a good ten year annual average.
- $100 billion a year in spending cuts against an average spending budget of $4.5 trillion is only a meager 2.2% spending decrease.
- According to the White House website budget spreadsheet, in 2017, this $100 billion in spending cuts would still add over half a TRILLION to the national debt.
Despite this feeble attempt at expense reduction, many in the administration are choking on it. Retired Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claims our national defense would be endangered by a 2.2% reduction in spending. Secretary of State John Kerry asserted that we could not afford a meager 2.2% reduction in his budget since we needed to continue to butt into the lives of people in other countries around the world. President Obama has been spreading panic, claiming many vital government services would be slashed because of this meager 2.2% cut in spending.
Makes you wonder if these so-called leaders are 1) that out of touch with the real world, 2) want to protect their turf at any cost regardless of the impact on the fiscal integrity of the country, or 3) are just that fiscally incompetent that they do not know how to run an efficient operation and can only operate it by increasing their budget rather than decreasing their organization’s waste, redundancy, and incompetence.
To help these politicians understand why this 2.2% reduction is a very easily attainable goal, let’s point out via just a HANDFUL of examples of how wasteful, redundant and incompetent their organizations are today:
- Medicare and Medicaid lose over $100 billion a year to waste, inefficiency, and criminal fraud.
- Social Security loses over $100 billion a year to waste, inefficiency, and criminal fraud.
- The IRS admits that it is so incompetent that it fails to collect over $380 billion a year from tax evaders.
- The U.S. Navy, one of Panetta’s former organizations, spent $300 million to build two Navy ships almost to completion before spending another $10 million to turn them both into scrap metal without ever using them.
- The State Department, John Kerry’s organization, recently spent $80 million to build a consulate building in northern Afghanistan that will never be used since the $80 million is not defensible from a terrorist attack and was built by bypassing the State Department’s own building guidelines relative to terrorists.
- The Transportation Safety Agency recently bought over $180 million worth of airport security equipment that it will never use, storing it in a warehouse in its original packaging.
- Employees in the General Services Administration threw themselves a Las Vegas bash at taxpayer expense, resulting in the dismissal and resignations of GSA employees and executives.
- The Obama administration recently made the inane, indefensible decision to give Egypt over one billion dollars worth of F-16 fighter planes and tanks, weapons that could eventually impact both Department of Defense and State Department operations in the future.
- And last but not least, consider some new findings relative to the President’s economic stimulus plan, as recently reported by the Independent Journal Review. Unfortunately, these types of expenses are no confined to the stimulus program, they happen every day in every Federal government department and entity.
These insults to the taxpayer occurred even though when President Obama signed the $831 billion stimulus into law in 2009, he stated that “tough choices smart investments” needed to be made. So ask yourself: if these are the “smart investments,” you can only wonder what the dumb expenses were:
- $250 was sent to a woman in Maryland who died in 1967.
- $840 was spent to disassemble and assemble three desks.
- The Lincoln Center in New York City was paid to host a “tango salon.”
- $10,000 was spent replacing light fixtures at a fish hatchery.
- $425,000 was spent in $250 increments to 1,700 prisons inmates for social security checks.
- $426,000 was spent to rebuild a bridge that is used by a average of ten cars a day.
- $500,000 was spent in subsidies for rain barrel installation.
- $600,000 was sent to a school district in Kansas …that no longer exists.
- $1 million was spent in New York on road signs advertising stimulus projects.
- $1 million was used to build 250 bike lockers.
- $1.25 million was used to use electric fish to study animal sensory information.
- $1.75 million was spent on energy-efficient garage doors.
- $2.2 million was spent to install skylights for a liquor store in Montana.
- $2.8 was million spent installing toilets in New Mexico’s national forest.
- $15 million was spent to build an airport in Ouizinkie, Alaska …a town of 165 people.
Disgraceful wastes of money. Which gets us back to our central question: Are Kerry, Panetta, and Obama out of touch, protecting turf or just fiscally incompetent? Or possibly all of the above?
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A first meager step is better than no step at all. Let’s go with this sequester and take some bumps. We’ll be fine. The administration is lying to us about END OF WORLD consequences. But what might we expect from congenital liars? Let’s do this thing. This is a way to trim Barry’s sails..
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A first meager step is better than no step at all. Let’s go with this sequester and take some bumps. We’ll be fine. The administration is lying to us about END OF WORLD consequences. But what might we expect from congenital liars? Let’s do this thing. This is a way to trim Barry’s sails. Although, regrettably, as far as I know the sequester does not defund Obama phones.
If WTP had the incentive to reorganize this Representative Republicand eliminate the progressive tax tool the left likes so much to create tax envy, tax discrimination and social warfare by using a national sales tax we would no longer have this conflict, we could have a accountable budget and if WTP were to institute term limits for all of our elected officials and the appointees we could have a government wheresas the civil could be put back into public service, we would have elected not anointed officials and our representation would have parity…that’s not so tough is it?
Let it happen, oliar is so good at sticking his foot where it doesn’t belong, let this be a lesson to him, big government and big spending is taboo, it’s time to trim the sails and come back to the real world.
Here’s another thought that should be looked into.
RICO act. Well, it looks to me like congress in its entirety and every person that works in it, the white house and every single person that works in it, the justice department and every single person that works directly or indirectly and every single department there-in, and every single employee of the federal government of the United States of America regardless of job description is and has been involved in criminal activity as an organization and every member of congress, including pages, secretaries, mail runners and every single employee therein, every single worker involved in working for the federal government at every level, do I need to list them, should be arrested and charged under the RICO act as an ongoing criminal organization. They are all complicit in the treasonous acts of not standing by their oath to preserve, protect and obey the Constitution of the United States of America, lying, cheating, stealing and misrepresentation from/ to the general Natural Born Citizen* Population of the United States of America, that would include every judge, bailiff, secretary, toilet cleaner, truck driver, mechanic and every single worker in the justice department nationwide is and has been committing crimes against the Natural Born American Citizens* of the United States of America and should be arrested, jailed without bond for 10 years until trial and then convicted of the crimes they have committed. Upon conviction they should be sent to prison, general population, to serve not less than life without the possibility of parole. Just like any organization that has been charged under the RICO act. Their Crimes will start with Treason. They have been lying, stealing and cheating from the Natural Born American Citizens* of the United States of America for at least 80 years. I can make this even more clear and to the point. Everyone directly or indirectly connected with the Federal Government that has not stood up and yelled out “I’m not gonna be part of this fraud” needs to be arrested, charged with Treason and jailed for life without the possibility of parole. I can’t see any difference between them and the Mafia, if there ever was such a thing, Gun Smugglers, Crooked Politicians, lying businessmen, treasury department employees at every level, bankers at every level, major corporation executives that outsource jobs from the USA taking away jobs from the Natural Born American Citizens* of the USA and every secretary that didn’t stand up and shout out “I’m Not Gonna Be Part Of This Fraud” or any RICO defined organization. When convicted ‘All’ their assets and I mean everything they own should be confiscated and put in the general fund to help the needy Natural Born Citizens* of the United States of America. Everything they have was derived from their criminal activity while working in the Criminal Organization we know as the Federal Government of the United States of America. That includes all of their kids’ stuff and of course the wives and mistresses property. Seize; confiscate all property of any description. Freeze all bank accounts. Their sentences after a quick trial after sitting in lock down for 10 years and conviction will be Life in, General Population, Prison without the possibility of Parole. Creation of construction jobs for a lot of new prisons for these poor folks that have been sucking on the tax paying Natural Born Citizen Tit. Give the sons and daughters of these crooked politicians and government workers the choice of Prison for life without parole or Front Line Combat Positions to fight under the same wait till you are shot at before you return fire rules of engagement. Well, they get a choice. Then we can go after the middlemen that were involved in defense procurement and all procurement process middlemen that were instrumental in ripping off the taxpayers for the last 80 years and we can prosecute the dead criminals posthumously. Then we can go after the lobbyists and major corporate executives that have run this country into the ground with their foreign made junk products, excessive salaries and extravagant lifestyles while laughing at their customers. I will mention that all politicians at every level of any size government entity, every single lobbyist and every person that has dealt with foreign nations as a representative of this country in any capacity was and is involved in criminal activity against the Natural Born Citizens* of the United States of America should each and every one of them be arrested and jailed for 10 years then convicted of treason and crimes against the Natural Born Citizens* of the United States of America and sent to Prison, general population, for life without the possibility of Parole. Of course this will include every single member of every policing/ law enforcement agency/ organization from city, county, state and federal level, every governor and each and every member of every state government and every person involved in the operation of those states should be arrested and tried for Treason and crimes under the Rico Act and jailed for life without the possibility of Parole in general Population. Every member of news media that has not stood up and shouted “I’m Not Gonna Be Part of This Fraud” needs to be arrested and imprisoned for life for Treasonous acts against the Natural Born Citizens* of the USA. Each and every single person listed above and many I didn’t name specifically are guilty of Murder, Rape, Robbery, at least and every other crime listed in any and all state and federal criminal statutes and should be dealt with accordingly, life in general population prison without the possibility of parole. And All Their Assets and I mean everything, Bank accounts, Children’s personal items and bank accounts and every item of their possession will be confiscated and sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds will go into a general fund account and administered to help the native Natural Born American Citizens*. Anyone that transfers their possessions, of any kind, to another person to avoid confiscation will be subject to additional consequences. Anyone that is caught with transferred personal property from another person or in the act of transferring property, that is under this act will have all of their personal property and all bank accounts seized and forfeited to the general fund to help the Natural Born Citizens* of the United States of America.
By the way I used spell check unlike a lot of you IDIOTS. I also reread this many times before I posted it and it may be a bit much but it’s the only way to get the point across. Hey Stupid, use spell check and proof read before you post it. You may be part of the problem in this country. I don’t give a sh*t about the rest of the world, they can go straight to…. Well, there’s a place for them and it’s not the USA.
* Natural Born American Citizen is a child born to 2 legal Citizens of the United States of America, of the opposite sex, that being one male and the other being a female, the mother of the child will be older than 18 to bestow upon the child her Citizenship of the United States of America. The father will be of an age that he is eligible for military service in the United States to bestow upon the child his Citizenship of the United States of America. Thus making the child a Natural Born Citizen of the USA. It should not and will not matter where the child is born on the planet as long as it is to 2 Citizens of the United States of America with overwhelming documentation and documented witnesses, under threat of imprisonment for perjury, of the birth information. That child will be given a United States of America-Natural Born Citizen-Birth Certificate. Without proper documentation the child will be labeled a naturalized citizen. Any child of dubious birth will automatically be labeled a Naturalized Citizen unless questioned by the proper authorities, and if the child is granted, because of overwhelming evidence, Natural Born Citizenship of the USA; all costs will be covered by the United States of America. Otherwise the cost will be the burden of the parents of the child. All proper medical testing will be administered to qualify any child for citizenship of the United States of America.