By the skin of their teeth. Just before the deadline Friday night. And much like Senator Paul Ryan promised in in February, much of it is going to affect entitlements, like Social Security and Medicare.
Really?
Seriously? Take away benefits people worked all their lives to earn?
For crying out loud, reform Medicaid. I’m sorry but I truly resent that there are so many people sitting back collecting welfare-and getting better medical care than my family can afford.
But Social Security and Medicare?
Those aren’t “entitlements!”
I realize that to get rid of the horrendous debt that administration after administration has racked up over the years (Democrats and Republicans alike), spending has to be cut somewhere. But they need start somewhere else.
Since they’re so bent on hurting their own people, then they need to spread that hurt across the board. Start cutting aide to foreign countries. Stop involving our military in wars without demanding compensation. And maybe even a profit. Yeah, I know, that sounds harsh, but so do many of the proposed cuts for Americans.
Here’s a novel idea.
Make some spending cuts. There’s no way to get around the fact that our government is out of control in that department. But they need to start looking after the interests of their citizens. Not penalizing them for the mistakes they and their predecessor have made.
How can they do that?
First of all by cutting the wages, benefits and retirement packages all of our politicians receive. ‘Servants’ who earn far more than most of the people who hired them just isn’t right!
They can start raising import taxes on countries getting rich off Americans. And hit the traitorous scum who have moved their businesses out of the United States so they can avoid taxes, and make more profit, especially hard. Figure out a way to impose it on companies that stay here but farm customer service and tech support out to countries. Countries whose first language isn’t English in particular.
Another novel idea would be to secure that blasted border! Then round up all the illegal’s and ship them back to their real home.
But many of them have had their children here, you might argue.
Too bad. Give them a choice. Choice number one, leave their children here and put them up for adoption. Or choice number two, as some very wise people have suggested, send their children with them, giving only the child the option of returning to the United States when they turn eighteen.
According to FactCheck.Org, American’s spent almost $11 billion dollars to support illegal’s in 2009, the most recent information I could find. Some estimate that number to be double. What it means is that American citizens are working their butts off to pay almost a billion dollars a month for people that have no right to be here!
Sure, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the National Debt. But in ten years, that $11 billion will top a trillion dollars. On top of what we’ve already been forced to pay for them.
Another great way to cut spending, in my opinion, is on the prison system. I think every prison and jail in the country needs to be modeled after the tent city jail in Arizona. Only take it a step farther.
Let’s start off with doing away with only two prisoners per cell. That’s kind of like a semi-private room in a hospital. Why not go with ‘wards?’ Twenty per room. For entertainment, pipe in James Earl Jones reading the bible. From the time they wake up until it’s lights out for the night. I have a set on tape and can attest to the fact that he has a very soothing voice.
Why do criminals eat healthier foods and have better medical care than many Americans? What about a diet of oatmeal for breakfast, bologna sandwiches for lunch and boiled dinner for supper? Every day. If they want variety, they can plant and work gardens in the summer.
And don’t make chain gangs voluntary. Make them mandatory. One, it will give them work experience. Two, it will save a lot of money in taxes. And three, it will get jobs done that have been cut from budgets across the nation.
Make jail and prison time a punishment and maybe crime will go down.
Oh. And one more thing might go a long way toward paying down that debt. Tax big business and the wealthy so that they pay their fair share. Stop giving them tax breaks and incentives, stop squandering our hard earned tax dollars on bailing out people who shouldn’t be running businesses in the first place. Clearly they couldn’t handle their money the first time around. What makes you think they’re qualified to handle ours?
Okay, I’ll stop ranting now. But I just wanted to point out that there are alternatives to messing with Social Security and Medicare. Why aren’t our elected officials looking at some of those?
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