Some one needs to tell all the law makers down in Washington, D.C. as well as most state houses that all those red numbers in the budget sheet does not mean that it is Christmas time again. (Can I still say Christmas in this country? Who cares I still have rights under the Constitution.) Anyway, red ink usually means that the outgoing money has become greater than incoming money. To put it as simply as I can for most law makers, ‘you are spending more than you are making!’ For those of us not in government service that means that all the money is gone and we cannot spend anymore. For those in government it seems not to have any meaning. For those who collect over $169,000.00 a year from us for an annual salary they sure are free with our money.
The President is saying that he will not sign a bill that increases the deficit in the next ten years, meaning one of two things; first that he is not going to sign any bill during his term of office or that all costs will be deferred until he is out of office and will not be blamed for the cost. I am voting for the second.
How do we know that proposed laws are bad for us? They push them through with out giving anyone a chance to read it! No one is saying how the proposed health care bill will be paid for except that the President is saying that payment will not be due while he is in office. How good of a job will the government do running health care? Look at Medicaid and Medicare as well as the Veterans Administration health care services. Putting it simply, ‘IT SUCKS!’ In the 1960’s a democratic administration tried to give health care to those who did not have it and that system has fallen apart. The George W. Bush administration tried to fix some problems with those services and added prescription drug coverage where there wasn’t any before. But maybe that is what we need to do is fix what is already in place and forget about adding more flawed programs that are going to cost way to much for way to little. Has any of you gone to the US House of Representatives site to look this bill up? You should, it is HR 2252. They are going to rob Medicare and Medicaid to pay for this plus what ever the Secretary of the Treasury thinks can be spared from repayment of all those bail outs. What is left I guess will come from our pockets. What is supposed to be health care for everyone will exclude millions of people.
I have an idea. Why don’t the elected officials in Washington, D. C. cut their pay by 50%. The savings of some where near 45 million dollars could be put towards paying for some of these things they are asking us to pay. Those who are elected to represent us should make what we do. Not what top executives make but what the rest of us make. Then they will hopefully have a better idea what it is like for the rest of us to make a living.
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