Image by Getty Images via @daylifeNo doubt you have been following the battle of the national budget going on in Washington , DC
On the one hand are the Republicans, being pushed by their Tea Party partners, to cut wasteful spending to the bone and on the other hand, Obama and his Democrats trying to pay for the wasteful spending by raising taxes on the rich or people making more than $250,000 a year.
On the surface, doing the right thing appears to be quite clear but this is politics where everything and anything is far from clear. You see, for politicians it is about getting re-elected and holding on to power and not about doing something good for the country and its people and I am talking about both Republicans and Democrats.
I look at the national budget the way I look at my own finances; I don’t spend more than I bring in… our government spends trillions more than it brings in.
To cut spending is a no brainer especially when there are federal reports showing billions in “wasteful” spending, spending that brings the country absolutely no benefit and should be stopped but is not…why…politics.
The Democrats have always been spenders, one social program after another, which is their basic philosophy…welfare nation. But to pay for all that largesse, they need to raise taxes on their favorite targets, the so called rich (>$250,000); the 10% of wage-earners that already pay 75% of all taxes.
The Republicans, haters of taxes, but spending fools under Bush would rather cut benefits to Americans rather than stop spending billions a day on wasteful wars. They also feel that cutting funding to Planned Parenthood / abortions will solve our budget crisis.
So there you have it…a bloody mess with a bunch of bloody fools in charge of fixing it…hopeless? – Sure seems that way to me.
We will be talking about this issue at some length as the battle rages because I think it is extremely important to our welfare and the welfare of our children and grandchildren and will influence how we vote in 2012 but I will start with one principle that I will be stressing to my representatives in Congress:
NO NEW TAXES UNTIL WASTEFUL SPENDING IS ELIMINATED FIRST…
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