Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Cue the violins, America: it’s “government shutdown season” again. Right on schedule, like pumpkin spice lattes or bad holiday commercials, the headlines scream that federal workers will be “sent home without pay” and that the Republic teeters on the brink of collapse.
The Constitution bestows upon the Congress the power of the purse. Congress is supposed to use that power to pass actual budgets. Each with 12 separate appropriations bills, each debated and voted upon. This acts to limit government.
DC world focuses like a 2-year-old on the sudden acknowledgement of Biden’s dementia and his begrudging admission that he has prostate cancer that morphed into bone cancer. He likely won’t last until Labor Day.
The Establishment Republicans, whether they cloak themselves a MAGA or not, are extreme gas-lighting Americans on the Big, Beautiful Bill for Budget Reconciliation. It is Scam. A Con. A Grift.
So the GAO team strolls into Sen. Coburn conference room. One woman and three men. The Director of the team was a forty-something East Indian with an accent. He did not appear to be an American which raised my curiousity. More on that later.
Imagine running a business where you “misplace” trillions of dollars, shrug your shoulders, and tell your investors, “Oops! But hey, keep the money coming!” That’s essentially the Department of Defense’s approach to accounting.
It’s no secret that our mainstream media companies prioritize advertising revenue over the truth, and nowhere is this more obvious than in their cozy relationships with big pharma and the military-industrial complex.
In effect, border security and all other small government priorities of conservatives have been kicked down the road. Rather than force the Democrats to own up to fixing these problems now, Johnson gave them and their demented leader a get out of jail free card.
Over and over again we the people are whipped into panic as we are told that grandma will starve if a budget amendment isn’t passed to buy her another day.
The federal government is required by law to engage in a budget process. Which means twelve appropriations bills – written and debated, passed and signed into law. Each and every Congress.
Nikki foolishly attacks Social Security; Social Security has a surplus. The rest of government owes $33 trillion
I called my congress critter, Julia Letlow’s, office today to find out if she was supporting McCarthy and his bid to pass another CR without making any needed changes, or if she was supporting Matt Gaetz and the congressmen fighting for fiscal sanity. Know what the receptionist said? She hadn’t had a chance to talk …
The Imperial City’s spendthrift ways have to stop sooner, rather than later.
Warning that if the debt limit is not increased, by around Thursday, bad things would begin to happen, and they affect you and I, because the government is going to protect itself, not you and I. Besides, the government has never protected you and I, nor could it ever. That was always an illusion, …
How Congress really works when it comes to spending your tax dollars, is an arcane process meant more to obfuscate details rather than inform citizens.
Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s agreement last month to back the “Inflation Reduction Ac,” came as a shock to Republicans and to members of his own party as well.
If your next-door neighbor petitioned your town zoning board to allow them to have an entire herd of African elephants in their backyard, you would be very upset. If the board negotiated with your neighbor to allow only 5 bull elephants in their backyard, instead of an entire herd, you would …