Most people believe that we have a two party system. There are more (Peace and Freedom, Green, Unity, etc.), but for this discussion let us consider that there are only two dominant parties. First we have the party of anger, aggression and intimidation. Then we have the party of capitulation. Both parties, through their nature, are pushing the U.S. to the brink of fiscal and social bankruptcy. We are on the road to becoming Venezuela 2.0.
You may question why I designate the two parties as I have. I could also call them, and I have, the Marxist/socialist party and the party of faux patriots. By any sobriquets, the two major parties both profess certain different and distinct platforms. Once elected to office, however, the electives act almost as one on behalf of big government. It matters naught who the Chief Executive is, the concession always seems to be at the will of the those who want to spend more and further our indebtedness to our adversaries. As stated before, one party uses aggression and intimidation within their own party and without while the other, in the name of compromise, almost always caves to the spending and priorities of the first.
How many times have you heard a statement such as, “If we don’t raise the debt ceiling, seniors will starve; they wil not receive their SSI payments” or “Veterans will lose their service-connected benefits” or “National Parks will have to close”? You never hear that there will be a cut in benefits to illegal aliens. They don’t mention that they are blindly funding every item on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s endless fantasy wish list without requesting accountability for the spending of those funds. They fail to mention that the FBI will receive an increase in funding despite their un-American activities. No, they simply stoke fear in seniors that their next deposit will not come.
The debt ceiling is a fictitious misnomer. First instituted in 1917, it was designated the Public Debts Act. It was amended in 1941 and re-designated to limit all public debt obligations. A debt limit (aka: debt ceiling) is supposed to limit or restrict the total amount that a country can borrow or how much debt it can be permitted to take on. Since its inception, the ceiling has been raised over 110 times.
The latest iteration is called oddly enough, “The Fiscal Responsibility Act”. Like so many other congressional works, this bill presents the opposite of implied name. The spending is abundant while the responsibility for it is nil. It follows the $1.7 trillion federal spending package that does little other than increase inflation and reduce energy supply in lieu of an irresponsible green energy package.
If anything, the Fiscal Responsibility Act slows the rate of spending slightly without reducing the rate. As with any government program, there is a cost of living rise in spending from year to year regardless of growth or contraction in the general economy and GDP. To the miscreants of D.C., a lesser increase than the previous year is called a “reduction” or “savings” or “cutback”. Justifications for increased spending always sound necessary but are all too often unwarranted for continuity and stability.
It’s about time, actually decades past time, to draw a reasonable budget that reflects the needs of the country and its citizens rather than rewarding to donors and lobbyists for their participation. If it doesn’t happen soon, there will be more tent cities and dumpster diving here than in Venezuela. American citizens will then be forced to migrate for economic security like those invading our country today. Where, oh where, will we go?
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