The White House's wish almost came true last week. It was hoping most of us and even the mainstream media would miss the release of the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary report on the 2010 federal fiscal year. And most did.
The Wall Street Journal, however, exposed why the White House was being so secretive about its results: The CBO concluded that federal government spending has skyrocketed 21.4 percent in just the past two years since President Barack Obama took office!
The White House's actions remind me of President Ronald Reagan's words: "We could say they spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair because the sailors are spending their own money."
It's no new revelation that Washington has lost its way from our Founders' vision and fiscal frugality. But in the past two years, it has become a financial runaway train. And it is only we the people who can save it from completely derailing our country and all of us on board.
Last week, I discussed the first five steps to regain control of Washington's insane spending and rebuild America's economy. Though I encourage readers who didn't read it to do so to get the details, I will summarize the first five points before I move on to the last three.
First, Washington should immediately stop any thought, form or legislation that would lead to more federal borrowing or bailouts — no exceptions.
Second, Washington should downsize the federal government by enacting tough spending caps and making across-the-board mandatory 10 percent cuts — no exceptions.
Third, Washington should immediately revise the 2011 federal budget to align with those priority reductions and eliminate absolutely all earmarks — no exceptions.
Fourth, Washington should engage in only non-debt-building actions and legislation that would immediately encourage Main Street and augment entrepreneurial incentives, including a commitment to never increase taxes for anyone for any reason but cut more taxes, which would provide immediate relief and increase revenues for everyone.
Fifth, Washington should discuss ways to encourage and equip interstate commerce and more collaboration among neighboring states, counties and communities — to brainstorm their own solutions to increase revenue and productivity in their own regions.
Sixth, we the people should hold Washington representatives accountable to our Founders' fiscal prudence and federal frugalities, both by our vote and their passing and living under a constitutional amendment for a balanced federal budget, which would require them to live within their means. A balanced budget amendment also would cut up big daddy's credit card in Washington with its unlimited credit limit.
Seventh, because we the people need to ensure our future economic stability and growth, we should seek to elect (or re-elect) only fiscally sound representatives who show proof of fiscal discipline, demonstrate a pay-as-you-go lifestyle and leadership, refuse under all circumstances to increase our national deficit and debts, disdain special interests, commit to live under a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget, understand how to grow jobs and the economy, and are willing to make the most difficult economic decisions.
We need to elect only leaders who would slash government spending and refuse to pay for programs that we cannot afford.
We all must fight (once and for all) to elect fiscally prudent politicians like our Founders, those like Thomas Jefferson, who brought down the national deficit even though he made the Louisiana Purchase and engaged the U.S. in a war with Tripoli.
Jefferson's warning about government debt and taxes is more apropos now than ever before: "To preserve (the) independence (of the people), we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
This brings me to my eighth critical step in reining in and controlling the federal government's spending and rebuilding America's economy. We must return to a pay-as-you-go government and nation. It's our last resort for an out-of-control economy and government. As Jefferson once said, "the maxim of buying nothing but what we had money in our pockets to pay for (is) a maxim which, of all others, lays the broadest foundation for happiness."
Friends, it's not too late, but the window is closing fast. We likely have one more chance to drop our partisan divides and elect only those who would be strict constitutionalists and preservers of our Founders' vision, principles and fiscal prudence, before the American economy and government collapse.
It is the last hour before the election, and we patriots need to reawaken our friends and neighbors to vote, as I called on Americans to do in my recent comical production "Trigger The Vote."
For a voter guide detailing where candidates in your state stand on issues and the pros and cons of key propositions, go to http://www.ChristianVoterGuide.com.
Most of all, we patriots need to fight with all our might to ensure the election on Nov. 2 of those across this land who firmly believe, as Reagan did, that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
(I also encourage everyone to check out the trailers to two new patriotic films playing near you, "I Want Your Money" and "Battle for America.")
To find out more about Chuck Norris and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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A well-thought out and well-planned strategy, Chuck but I think there's one issue that you've got to hit over and over again; the cost of illegal immigration. Rense says that the cost is $346,000,000,000 a year, http://www.rense.com/general81/dtli.htm. You've also got to rein in the unscrupulous employers who exploit the incomers. This article was written 6 years ago but it too highlights the problem, especially for California but I guess that Texas is experiencing the problem too, http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm.
Immigration Law. "In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year." It seems to me from what you describe Chuck that the US economy is like a patient that needs to be treated for shock but you've got to stop the bleeding first.
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Posted by: Alan O'Reilly
Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:30 AM
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8 Steps to Rebuild America's Economy
The White House's wish almost came true last week. It was hoping most of us and even the mainstream media would miss the release of the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary report on the 2010 federal fiscal year. And most did.
The Wall Street Journal, however, exposed why the White House was being so secretive about its results: The CBO concluded that federal government spending has skyrocketed 21.4 percent in just the past two years since President Barack Obama took office!
The White House's actions remind me of President Ronald Reagan's words: "We could say they spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair because the sailors are spending their own money."
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1.(no one spent more taxpayer money than Ronald Reagan=$5 Trillion dollars and all of it is unaccountable and none it was his money. I do not believe he was ever a sailor but he played one on tv. Forgive me , no pun intended…)
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It's no new revelation that Washington has lost its way from our Founders' vision and fiscal frugality. But in the past two years, it has become a financial runaway train. And it is only we the people who can save it from completely derailing our country and all of us on board.
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2.(Nothing is farther from our founders than:Thank the republicans for Rigging voting machines and ballot fraud! to falsely elect a public official-G, Bush Jr. with no paper trail balloting in Florida where his brother was governor!)
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Last week, I discussed the first five steps to regain control of Washington's insane spending and rebuild America's economy. Though I encourage readers who didn't read it to do so to get the details, I will summarize the first five points before I move on to the last three.
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3.(privatization of government has historically led to more expensive consequences=outsourcing of military contracts to foreign arms dealers raised the expense of military hardware 140% per year for decades, private health services more than doubled and social security would have been wiped out if the republicans had their chance at privatization, then health insurances can be added to the fray as the list goes on and on)
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First, Washington should immediately stop any thought, form or legislation that would lead to more federal borrowing or bailouts — no exceptions.
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4.(history has shown that the republicans are the antithesis of this! You could say they ran the country like who? ENRON or Haliburton? I hope they never hook up a hot water heater for me!)
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Second, Washington should downsize the federal government by enacting tough spending caps and making across-the-board mandatory 10 percent cuts — no exceptions.
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5.(37 cents of dollar earned in this country is to pay off debt the republican in control created. It is easier to cut them off at the ballot box.)
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Third, Washington should immediately revise the 2011 federal budget to align with those priority reductions and eliminate absolutely all earmarks — no exceptions.
(Once again, it is something finely tuned by the republican party. Did not President Richard Nixon dismantle the NASA's SaturnIV rocket so we could sell Pepsi in China? It was a little obscure change that resulted in 247,000 american jobs lost in a field in which we were technical leaders. President Reagan enacted”Star Wars=How many earmarks were in that to get it to pass? The republicans outsourced America and we are now run by foreigners that have only a monetary interest in the United States.)
Fourth, Washington should engage in only non-debt-building actions and legislation that would immediately encourage Main Street and augment entrepreneurial incentives, including a commitment to never increase taxes for anyone for any reason but cut more taxes, which would provide immediate relief and increase revenues for everyone.
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6.( History has shown the republicans were right on top of this! Our national debt went into the TRILLIONS under Reagan=$5T, Bush Sr=$3.5T,Clinton=$0,Bush Jr=$3.8T =$12Trillion). I would say no to another republican cutting spending in government.)
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Fifth, Washington should discuss ways to encourage and equip interstate commerce and more collaboration among neighboring states, counties and communities — to brainstorm their own solutions to increase revenue and productivity in their own regions.
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7.(During the tenure of G Bush Jr a Minnesota Bridge collapsed, killing people due to neglect. The republicans have the poorest record of neglect of our basic necessities in this regard and the strongest record spending with nothing to show for it.)
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Sixth, we the people should hold Washington representatives accountable to our Founders' fiscal prudence and federal frugalities, both by our vote and their passing and living under a constitutional amendment for a balanced federal budget, which would require them to live within their means. A balanced budget amendment also would cut up big daddy's credit card in Washington with its unlimited credit limit.
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8.(We took the credit card away from Jr and when the republicans were in office, did he get reprimanded? The only reprimand he received was a shoe thrown at him. Cheney shot a lawyer in the face , had people tortured while he covertly and illegally managed the government and walked away much more wealthy. President Nixon pardoned himself while President Gerald Ford won by the smallest landslide in history just by letting the devil slip away.)
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Seventh, because we the people need to ensure our future economic stability and growth, we should seek to elect (or re-elect) only fiscally sound representatives who show proof of fiscal discipline, demonstrate a pay-as-you-go lifestyle and leadership, refuse under all circumstances to increase our national deficit and debts, disdain special interests, commit to live under a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget, understand how to grow jobs and the economy, and are willing to make the most difficult economic decisions.
We need to elect only leaders who would slash government spending and refuse to pay for programs that we cannot afford.
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9.(I am trying to achieve this as well but history has shown that the Republican Party has shown itself it to the most corrupt political machine throughout history. I will never vote for another one again. They represent big business only and are far removed from reality. They are and have been traitors to this country like no other. They have depleted our common wealth, security and global presence is spread thinly and at great expense.)
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We all must fight (once and for all) to elect fiscally prudent politicians like our Founders, those like Thomas Jefferson, who brought down the national deficit even though he made the Louisiana Purchase and engaged the U.S. in a war with Tripoli.
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10.(I will not cut things like social security so that these idiots can have more money to spend on war and greed. I will vote them out by weighing the scales of each candidate. Then I will remember ballot fraud, stealing and torture and say: I think I will vote for the democrat because he is the most like me the working man.)
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Jefferson's warning about government debt and taxes is more apropos now than ever before: "To preserve (the) independence (of the people), we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.
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11.(Servitude? Jefferson sired children with his slaves. The slaves needed a union to negotiate their wages! He like many politicians were high on rhetoric and the common baseline is the working man and woman that buy into the ideals of their leaders. Since the Republicans have been so corrupt, it may never return.)
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If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
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12.(Today, we would have to eliminate the Federal Reserve, good luck with that. We are so tied to foreign products that our economy will collapse the moment they stop flowing. With foreign products as the mainstay we have become dependent and past manufacturing losses now total in the millions. Instead, we should concentrate on buying products from our neighbors and friends and employ our veterans when they come home. We should stop buying products from countries like Viet Nam that have us as the bad guys in their national anthem. Vote with our money is our one true vote!)
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This brings me to my eighth critical step in reining in and controlling the federal government's spending and
rebuilding America's economy. We must return to a pay-as-you-go government and nation. It's our last resort for an out-of-control economy and government. As Jefferson once said, "the maxim of buying nothing but what we had money in our pockets to pay for (is) a maxim which, of all others, lays the broadest foundation for happiness."
Friends, it's not too late, but the window is closing fast. We likely have one more chance to drop our partisan divides and elect only those who would be strict constitutionalists and preservers of our Founders' vision, principles and fiscal prudence, before the American economy and government collapse.
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13(This imminent collapse has been brewing for a long time. Where were you 8 years ago? I guess I am trying to say that I want leadership with FORESIGHT, not HINDSIGHT and the Christian Right has lost this in their candidates. I do not think they will ever recover. They have actually caused the Arab states to be far more deeply rooted in our local politics than at any other time in our history. They did it through our dependence on oil and President Reagan's “Strategic Energy Reserve” policy where we defend Saudi Arabia. This, by the way is the true home of Osama Bin Laden and his Royal Family. They now own buildings in our Congressional District in Washington DC. All you can agree on is that you do not want a “Muslim Mosque at Ground Zero”, for Pete's Sake!)
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It is the last hour before the election, and we patriots need to reawaken our friends and neighbors to vote, as I called on Americans to do in my recent comical production "Trigger The Vote."
For a voter guide detailing where candidates in your state stand on issues and the pros and cons of key propositions, go to http://www.ChristianVoterGuide.com.
Most of all, we patriots need to fight with all our might to ensure the election on Nov. 2 of those across this land who firmly believe, as Reagan did, that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
(I also encourage everyone to check out the trailers to two new patriotic films playing near you, "I Want Your Money" and "Battle for America.")
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14.(Remember all of you Christians out there: What ever you think is right: Vote the OPPOSITE! They are telling you the opposite so you will believe it. Remember, I am not a doctor but I play one on TV...
15. If you truly want to help America, vote with your money for American Products. Eliminate tax free zones for foreign investors that live off the taxes of American based busines and taxpayers, employ your own veterans, not the foreignveterans that shot them. Last but not least, do not believe the best candidate is always a Republican! They have proven themselves to be the exact opposite over many decades in office. Do not let them cut your social security or privatize it. Do not let them privatize our common heritage assets. If you let them, they will sell our collective assets to foreigners. Excuse me, they already have sorry…Remember that the people sending our men and women off to fight a war have never been Veterans themselves. All of them have a monetary stake in war which you do not share. Jesus said: Peace to All. Let us keep the moneychangers out of the Temple.)
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Posted by: Rick Laviolette
Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:54 AM
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