I’m all in for innovation, social and technological advancement. But I have a really hard time with the government using my tax dollars to subsidize a company, corporation or pseudo-government enterprise beyond it’s “best by” date. If a project is truly useful to society, it should generate sufficient revenue by its’ self to maintain viability. Be it donations or user fees, if it’s wanted and needed it will survive on its own.
Wind and solar power are proving to be more costly than beneficial with many subsidized companies declaring bankruptcy despite receiving tens, or even hundreds, of millions in taxpayer dollars. Prime example: Solyndra – the recipient of $535,000,000 in 2009 and bankruptcy declarant in 2011. Why was the company given the loan guaranty? It was because they were otherwise insolvent. Their product was more costly than the market would bear and continued to be despite the taxpayer input.
Numerous wind generating programs have been scuttled after receiving grants/loan guarantees because insufficient diligence was put into their viability or social acceptability. Such off-shore projects are decimating the fishing industry off both our coasts. Whales, sea lions, dolphins and other aquatic mammals are being killed by the constant invasive sounds emitted from the generators and gear boxes down through the support bases that interfere with the navigation and communication among and between the species.
Other projects that our “representatives” in Congress choose to spend your money on include: plays and local playhouses, artists and art few people want or can afford and studies that verify foregone conclusions because the end result was known and obvious before the proposal was written. Come on guys, ducks waddle because their weight distribution over only two legs causes them a single-footed imbalance. There is no need for a three million dollar grant for Senator What’s His Name’s brother-in-law’s firm to study if projecting gender dysphoria onto sub-teens causes confusion, depression and other mental problems.
The latest government funding fiasco is, of course, giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the tens of millions of foreign invaders. There must be an understanding that these giveaways are only free to the recipients. They are at the expense of the companies, corporations and individual citizens of this country. The endowments offered include food, housing, medical care, clothing, education, legal assistance (including translators), phones and refillable debit cards for those few things that are not directly sponsored by the citizens. This catastrophe is causing the displacement of military veterans, medical and education costs to rise precipitously undue inflation and taxation beyond necessity for “We the People”.
All this is happening while we continue to fund an unwinnable war with no accounting for graft, embezzlement, waste and other corruption. We are doing so at the cost of severely depleting our own resources and the reserves necessary to maintain viability as a sovereign country.
We are now subsidizing, via taxation, a government that is thereafter subsidizing practical but nonviable projects, programs and studies (Read: wasting your money) that only provide individual benefit to the elected decision-makers. Members of Congress spend most of their time on our dime thinking of ways to spend our money to get themselves re-elected. Instead, they should be re-aligning the laws and codes to reflect today’s needs v. those of the 1890s whose mandates have been overwritten so many times that they are obfuscated to the point their interpretation for current application often becomes villainous interpolation.
It is well beyond time to pare back the needless spending on foolish and unnecessary wants, schemes and projects of the administration and concentrate more on the “needs” of the American people. We must seek and elect people for office who share the concerns of the populace over the irrelevant desires of the lobbyists.