I would have been part of the tea party revolution back in History. The Tea Party org. today, is a far cry from this. Read "What a Tea Party Budget Looks Like." Tea Party Favorites Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sen. Rand Paul budget proposals are like bulls in a china cabinet. They have no clue as to the damage that will be done to the American people. Here are some of the programs they want to eliminate: the Affordable Housing Program, the Commission on Fine Arts, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the State Justice Institute. Instead of reinstating taxes on the extremely rich who would not feel the blow, they prefer to leave millions of Americans homeless...perhaps saying, "Let them eat cake!"...They need to go back and take a history course...study the American Revolution and the French Revolution. In history the American Revolution was sparked by Taxation without representation.They paid Taxes but never got anything back. Government starved the people. So they refused to pay Taxes. French Revolution they Taxed the poor and gave nothing back, and when the people starved they rose up and took it out on the elite. The wealthy. Republican Party has not supported legislation that helps the working man and you can see where they are headed. Rich get Richer, and the Poor?
I have read the Constitution, as I am sure you have too. Can you tell me what part of the Constitution gives our government the right to spend our tax money on those specific endeavors? Look, I know the poor need help... but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Our government is not he entity best suited for caring for the poor or the needy. In case nobody out there has noticed... we are in a deficit crisis. Ignoring the the problem isn't going to make it go away. Spending billions of dollars on entitlement programs isn't going to help either. If the US goes bankrupt those programs won't only be cut, they will be non-existent. Until we all take some personal responsibility and start governing ourselves, nothing is going to get fixed. Less government; not more. That is how the problem is going to get solved.
ReplyDeleteI have read the Constitution before. However, you have inspired me to go read it again as every time I read it, I learn something new. I do have the preamble memorized. "We the People of the f the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
ReplyDeleteNow is there anything in there that applies?