In the past year or so, although our political views still have a wide gap between them, the opinions we maintain of our elected representatives are pretty much the same...the majority of them are more interested in the benefits of the position than they are the responsibilities of serving this country. America is bleeding out and it's business as usual in Washington because they are insulated from the realities of life for most of us.
The people have made it clear we need EVERYONE in our government to work together to come up with a viable plan to pull our nation out of its economic spiral into the financial maelstrom we have sailed into. That means looking at the facts and stopping all the rhetoric. (a) (b) (c) (d)
WE CANNOT BALANCE THE BUDGET! STOP TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL KUDOS WITH BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENTS THAT LITERALLY WATER DOWN THE STRENGTH OF OUR CONSTITUTION! An excerpt from this July 6, 2011 article from the American Thinker (e) agrees with this line of thinking:
"Currently, Washington Republicans are mulling over two versions of a Balanced Budget Amendment. One, sponsored by Sens. Orrin Hatch and John Cornyn..." and another by "...Sen. Mike Lee would be similar...
"Both versions, however, are fundamentally flawed and therefore utterly unacceptable...
"Firstly, and most worryingly, both proposed amendments would effectively undo all the limitations on the federal government currently listed in the Constitution...the principle of enumerated prerogatives, the nondelegation doctrine, and the 9th and 10th Amendments. Both versions would effectively mean that the federal government will be allowed to meddle with, legislate on, and spend money on anything, as long as its total annual spending doesn't exceed 18% or 20% of GDP (whose estimates it could falsify to justify higher spending)."
Getting America back on track will require a multi-faceted approach. There are many thoughts in the wind, but a plan must be adopted and put into play. For instance:
1. Yearly audits conducted by non-government firms could identify unnecessary line items to be illiminated, hidden earmarks, waste in the government's operations and duplicated efforts between departments.
2. Madatory eliminations and reductions in Congressional staff, salaries and benefits could be implemented and the 'retired' staffing guidelines illiminated completely.
3. Capping Congressional salaries to be equal or less than the average annual teacher's income in the U.S. would assure elected representatives are not overcompensated and forced to live within as strict budget.
4. Anyone wishing to lobby the U.S. Congress could be required to pay a Lobbyist Membership into the federal coffer and be limited to specific locations and times to conduct business.
These corrections and more are 'short term' fixes but could reduce the budget by billions of dollars yearly.
1. Yearly audits conducted by non-government firms could identify unnecessary line items to be illiminated, hidden earmarks, waste in the government's operations and duplicated efforts between departments.
2. Madatory eliminations and reductions in Congressional staff, salaries and benefits could be implemented and the 'retired' staffing guidelines illiminated completely.
3. Capping Congressional salaries to be equal or less than the average annual teacher's income in the U.S. would assure elected representatives are not overcompensated and forced to live within as strict budget.
4. Anyone wishing to lobby the U.S. Congress could be required to pay a Lobbyist Membership into the federal coffer and be limited to specific locations and times to conduct business.
These corrections and more are 'short term' fixes but could reduce the budget by billions of dollars yearly.
The 'biggies', medicare, medicaid, social security and defense, will require MAJOR COOPERATION between everyone in Washington to construct a LONG TERM plan to repair them. A first step could be considering the argument of unconstitutional departments in our federal government. If these were reviewed, could they be closed down?
"The Departments of Education, Agriculture, HUD, Transportation, and Commerce are patently unconstitutional, as is the EPA, the SBA, the DHHS, all three big entitlement programs, subsidies for anything (including agriculture), the Davis-Bacon Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the War on Drugs, the cap-and-tax scheme, CAFE standards, renewable energy standards, ethanol production obligations, executive regulations of the economy, and all congressional and presidential drilling bans and drilling moratoriums. The Constitution does not authorize any of these things; all of the issues they pertain to are reserved by the 10th Amendment to the states and the people." (e)
Whatever the politicians do, needs to happen quickly and with the Constitution and the whole country in mind. Partisan politics has no place in this process. A plan needs to be longterm with failsafes to prevent future meltdowns like we have experienced over the last 75 years.
Do we have the people in D.C. to accomplish this? I fear the worse but hope for the opposite. So far all my efforts to contact them and urge them to make positive changes have fallen on deaf ears, i.e., my blog.
a: http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/04/news/economy/reducing_debt/
b: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/where_the_budget_deficit_actua_1.html"The Departments of Education, Agriculture, HUD, Transportation, and Commerce are patently unconstitutional, as is the EPA, the SBA, the DHHS, all three big entitlement programs, subsidies for anything (including agriculture), the Davis-Bacon Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the War on Drugs, the cap-and-tax scheme, CAFE standards, renewable energy standards, ethanol production obligations, executive regulations of the economy, and all congressional and presidential drilling bans and drilling moratoriums. The Constitution does not authorize any of these things; all of the issues they pertain to are reserved by the 10th Amendment to the states and the people." (e)
Whatever the politicians do, needs to happen quickly and with the Constitution and the whole country in mind. Partisan politics has no place in this process. A plan needs to be longterm with failsafes to prevent future meltdowns like we have experienced over the last 75 years.
Do we have the people in D.C. to accomplish this? I fear the worse but hope for the opposite. So far all my efforts to contact them and urge them to make positive changes have fallen on deaf ears, i.e., my blog.
a: http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/04/news/economy/reducing_debt/
c: http://www.federalbudget.com/taxnews.html
d: http://www.federalbudget.com/
e: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/why_the_balanced_budget_amendm.html
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