Fool Me Once

I’ve been watching the ongoing debate on raising the Federal Government’s credit limit. Once again our elected representatives are asked to increase the limit on the nation’s credit card. This limit has meant nothing for many years. To say that there is a cap to government spending but constantly raise it shows a total lack of respect for the voters and the values that have supported this nation. Members of Congress have promised to cut spending and turn around and increased spending. Too many times promises have been made and broken. Even the surpluses of the Clinton error were not maintained due to the spending that followed in later years. Our leaders continue to fail us, our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Their inability to control spending will eventually cripple our nation and rob the citizens of this country of our liberties.

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In an effort to repeat history the Democrats in Congress have promised, as they did to the first President Bush, to cut $3 in spending for each dollar of tax increases. President Bush broke his promise and signed the tax increase. The tax increases were immediate and the cuts were to come in the “future.” Those cuts never came and Bill Clinton rode the broken promise into the White House.

There is an old saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Many of you know this saying and it is never been more relevant than it is today. This year once again the promise has been made again. The President promises some “future” cuts in spending for increases in “revenues” (taxes). The amount of 3 to 1 respectively has even been floated. The President and his party are sounding like “Wimpy” from the Popeye cartoons. They want to pay us Tuesday for a hamburger today. The one thing I noticed about Wimpy was that I never saw him pay for a single hamburger and I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership follow through with a single promise to make meaningful government spending cuts.

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The President has said in so many words that he will illegally withhold Social Security, Military checks, and general obligation payments if he is not given a blank check. He has tried to crash the stock markets and panic the American people if he is not given his way. He says he is going to cut spending, but he has never presented a plan to cut spending. He is good at making speeches full of contradictions, but he has never presented an actual plan. His budgets only increased spending.

I know that many people remember the betrayals of the past. We must not stand by and allow the tax and spend policies of the past continue. It is time for meaningful cuts NOW. Congress today can not impose spending limits and cuts on the future, but they can create long term spending obligations. It is very clear that the only way we can rein in spending, pay off the massive government debt, and support the foundation of our country is to enforce a balanced budget on the politicians. Without a Balanced Budget Amendment the mismanagement of the Federal government will continue. It is plain to see that politicians are not trustworthy when given an open credit line and a blank check.

Will we be fooled again? It seems that the President and his party think that the American people are fools. I fear that way too many Americans will accept the status quo and really believe the repeated lies that we are being spoon feed daily. If we do not hold Washington’s feet to the fire we will be treated like fools, once again.

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Fighting Back

What do you believe? Who do you trust? Do you trust someone who will not defend themselves? Do you trust someone who is unable or unwilling to defend their beliefs? Do you trust a person that stands by while others misrepresent their positions? I know that it makes it hard to support someone when they don’t respond to misrepresentations, half-truths and outright lies. When someone allows someone to do this, then the average person is going to believe the lie.

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During the 80’s and 90’s ever time anyone talked about are tried to put limits on the out of control spending in Washington, they would be accused of terrible things by the Democrats or their surrogates. The media would then play the charge that “the Republicans wanted to starve granny, or kill the homeless” or some other charges. When there is an attempt to bring sanity to Washington spending, they are call extremist. The problem with what they are saying is that each time it is said; they are attacking people who are intelligent enough to know that this uncontrolled spending would one day destroy the country. Each time the Republicans ignored or failed to defend their position, it only seems to say; that they did not really believe in what they are saying and doing.

For far too many years the political leaders in Washington have engaged in the practice of buying voters with borrowed money. At the same time many voters feel disenfranchised due to these types of actions. We are told what we want to hear and then are betrayed. Whether it’s another “stimulus” bill which goes to pay off political supports or TARP, I feel and it seems that many other American feel as if they are stabbed in the back. We watch as Washington continues to rob the country of our wealth and freedoms. As Washington continues to overstep their constitutional limits and marches the nation into financial disaster, many feel alone and powerless. As proof I only have to point to the Congressional approval ratings.

But all is not lost. The rise of the TEA Party is shaking up the “powers that be” and brought in some new faces to Congress. There are some really principled people that stepped up and are working toward the goal of returning our government back to “We the People.” But we still face many leaders in the Republican party that are politicians first, Americans last. These Progressive Republican’s goals are the same as the Progressive Democrats. They just want the “credit” for spending the money. Those days must end by purging the Progressives out of power.

We must send more constitutional representatives the capital. It is not too late to find or to stand up for the country. You are not alone. The so-called “Main Stream Media” does not represent the main stream view. It is time to make sure that we have people who really believe in the Constitution, including our political and economic system.

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We need more people like Allen West in Congress, who is not afraid to fight back when attacked. There is no doubt that he was not attacked, even if not by name. It is clear who she was attacking and she has not and could not truthfully deny it. It is time to be a little over the top. It is time to make the Progressives true victims of defeat. It is time to point out that there is no plan for prosperity on the Progressive side. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a despicable person and I applaud him for fighting back against the demagoguery of the serious issues facing this nation. Wasserman Schultz was not expecting to be called on her attack.

The Democrat party has allowed the current crisis to fester. They are the ones who failed to even present a budget for this year. They are the ones who passed a bill designed to take control of the American healthcare system, against the well of the American people. They are the ones who are spending trillions of dollars to payoff political supporters and the labor unions. Their party is actively attacking the Constitution by refusing to enforce the nation’s borders. The Progressives in our government answers are to: Loot the treasury, divide the people with the use of class warfare, and destroy prosperity.

The Progressive Socialist must be defeated. To accomplish this we must have people who believe in this country and its foundation. Those who stand for the status quo must be removed from the government and replaced with those who will defend the nation. If we fail to save our Constitution and allow the government to continue to spend with no limits there will be no more freedom. We will leave nothing but slavery to those who follow us. I only pray that there are enough people left in this country that understand the reality of what is being done to this nation and that our freedoms are on the line.

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Gross Fiscal Mismanagement

Have you seen the commercial the government is running where a guy says he's waiting for the "credit fairy?" His friend tells him that there is no such thing as the "credit fairy." After years of uncontrolled spending by the federal government I find it amazing that they are spending even more of our money to tell us about controlling our personal credit. It doesn't take too much of a stretch to say that government spending has been out of control for many years. Year after year Congress has spent money as if there was never going to be an end to it. I know that for several years we had surpluses, but those surpluses were not what they seemed.

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During those years the Social Security "trust" fund was taking in more money than it paid out. Those funds were spent by Congress. Without those revenues the numbers would have looked differently. Each time you hear a politician talking about the Clinton Era budgets, remember that such talk ignores a major funding source. With the increase in the retirement rate and the cut in the Social Security "tax cut" this so called trust fund is now a liability not an asset. With these years of gross financial mismanagement the people who were responsible to protect the country and its future have totally ignored their responsibilities. This is not something that resides in just one party or the other. It is an issue with individuals not party alone.

I blame those who were and are still in Congress from both parties for the current crisis. This is not a crisis that was unforeseen. Anyone paying attention could see this coming decades in advance. This whole debt ceiling debate has been a set up. Please remember that Congress never passed a budget for 2011. This is the responsibility of Congress in which they failed to do with a purpose. The leadership in the Democrat Party understood that they would lose control of the House if history repeated itself. It is not hard to understand that they understood that they felt that they could manipulate public opinion and twist the arms of Republican members to betray their promises.

You must understand that politicians don't want solutions to problems They need those problems to have issues that they can blame on others and promise to fix. They are willing to pass laws that do nothing but increase their own power and those who support their reelection. This type of "leadership" is the reason why our nation is in over $14,500,000,000,000.00 in debt.That is only the debt in Treasury Bonds and not the other obligations such as Welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid. This unsecured debt is estimated to be over $114,697,000,000,000,00 or in words $114.697 trillion.

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The only plan put forward by the President is to increase spending and taxes. Now I know that is not what he seems to be saying, but you must listen to not just what he is saying now but what he has been saying since he has been in office. Unless he is totally stupid there is no way he can claim that he did not know that the credit limit was going to be an issue this year. Not knowing this would occur would be totally irresponsible and an act of incompetency. But his party has presented no answer. They only want to blame the TEA Party and the Republicans.

It is time for more Americans to stand up and say that our so called leaders must stop allowing problems to become a crisis in order for them to push an agenda. Those in power wish to increase their power and enrich their friends by robbing the nation. Obama and the current and former leaders of the Democrat Party have no answers other than class warfare. The greed of the left and the corruption of our government continues to weaken the country. Their answer is to punish the productive, enrich themselves, and bride those who only look to government.

So no. The credit fairy does not exist for the individual or for the government. It is time to look at reality and realize that government can not continue to spend money without limits. The corruption must end. Government must shrink. Raising taxes on anyone at this time will only punish the producers and reward no one. By raising taxes at this time the economy will slow even more and decrease revenue to the treasury.

The answer can only come from less government not more. Maintaining the tax rates and cutting spending will encourage growth in the private sector. Increase taxes and government has only depressed growth. But we have elected officials who see productive people as bad people. The proof is undeniably true that as government grows you have fewer workers producing and paying taxes. This is a death spiral that we are entering with too many cheering it on.

Those in power of both parties are divorced from the reality and wish to only maintain power by any means. We must realize that the more we expect from the government the more they take away. Our freedoms are on the line. Once we lose our freedoms, freedom will be lost to the world. Don't be fooled by the double talk and the blame game. This debt crisis is a manufactured crisis of the Democrat Party. The blame is on their hands. If they had answers that worked then there would be no problem. It could have been solved long before it became a crisis. Don't forget the words of President Obama's former aid: "Never let a crisis go to waste."

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