Don't forget Conservativism!
Seems like we might all have to give in a bit....help support those who need a hand up (note that I drive a 1998 Honda and a 1966 Ford, so I have no love for those undocumented immigrants who live 4 families to a house and send what money they don't spend on SUV's back to Mexico for their families), quit bitching and accept that the MAJORITY of the population in the USA wants more of what we had for the past 4 years. Count your lucky stars that you have adequate income to give more than you were.
Get a grip....GEEZ!!!!!
Doug
Yes Doug, your party remains in control of government and we will all continue to pay a little more. But you aren’t really paying for it. We’re BORROWING it. But not just for the poor yet noble undocumented Mexican immigrant you mention striving for a better life for his family but also for a few other things:
- $27 million plan by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve the economic competitiveness of Morocco involved training Moroccans to design and make pottery for sale both locally and in international markets.(Unfortunately the translator hired was not fluent in English and some of the materials used in the sessions were not regularly available in Morocco.)
- Cold War-era program called the Initiative for Proliferation Prevention has in many years been appropriated far more than it can spend. Contrary to its original mission of ensuring that former Soviet nuclear experts did not go to work for rogue nations or terrorist groups, the program has helped Russian weapons institutes recruit scientists. (The DOE says the program has created nearly 2,800 private sector jobs in … Russia. At last - stimulus that worked!)
-Helping the Smuttynose Brewery in New Hampshire, which has annual sales of more than $5 million, to use three-quarters of a million dollars in federal funds to build a new buy three new brew tanks. The owner of a competing new distillery said the grant to Clayton put him at a competitive disadvantage. (Maybe he could have a beer with the executives at Ford).
-How about the over half a million dollars for the Pentagon project dedicated to testing a process developed in France to develop a new form of beef jerky that resembles a Fruit Roll-Up. (Perhaps it’s appeal to the Obama administration). "The Pentagon could have simply purchased meat snacks from the numerous companies already producing these popular treats rather than creating its own brand of jerky". (Don’t start me on F16s to the Muslim Brotherhood controlled government in Egypt.)
But Doug, you also need to help support the:
-The half a million dollars in Community Development Block Grants provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make pet toothpaste and shampoo.
-The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spenting $175 million during 2010 to maintain hundreds of buildings that it does not even use. This includes a pink, octagonal monkey house in the city of Dayton, Ohio. (Shame it closed, I know where the monkeys could get all their beauty products).
-$325,000 National Science Foundation grant to make “RoboSquirrel,” a taxidermied rodent that can wag its tail. The purpose: to help study interactions between squirrels and rattlesnakes. (Do they shampoo those things?)
-The Alabama Watermelon Association got $25,000 in state-allocated federal funds — part of a $401,367 grant from the Department of Agriculture — to have its spokeswoman go on a promotional tour. (The Alabama Watermelon Queen is no doubt an inspiration to us all.)
-A total of $3 million has been granted to researchers at the University of California at Irvine so that they can play video games such as World of Warcraft. (Hope they don’t have access to assault rifles)
-$615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to digitize photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.
-Stanford University received $239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love and a safer and more discreet ways to find same-sex partners.
-The National Institutes of Health spent approximately $442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam. (I wonder if they use the internet – contact Stanford)
-$1.8 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars went for a "museum of neon signs" in Las Vegas, Nevada.
-$35 million was reportedly paid out by Medicare to 118 "phantom" medical clinics that never even existed
-In California, one park received $440,000 in federal funds to perform "green energy upgrades" on a building that has not been used for a decade.
-No doubt to the horror of you gun control advocates, a Nevada park including a gun range was built by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) funds. This year, the park had $430,000 in revenues, but cost $1.3 million to operate.
-The National Institutes of Health was given $800,000 in "stimulus funds" to study the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa. (Maybe they could just talk to the Vietnamese male hookers)
-$175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”. (Do they fly to Vietnam?)
-2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly. (For those that “bat on the other side of the plate” and don't have internet access.)
-And occasionally there is just the carefree treatment of other people’s (the taxpayers) money. Such as when U.S. military spent “$998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida”.
-But my favorite is the expansion of the bureaucracy. Remember in 2010 the Obama administration says the government grew to 2.15 million employees that year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force. Guess what, it’s now and they are enjoying generous benefit packages, federal workers earn significantly better compensation than similarly educated workers in the private sector according to the CBO.
-Doug, maybe you should have gotten a Federal job.
Over the last 30 years, the U.S. national debt has gotten 13 times larger. We have accumulated the largest debt in the history of the world and there is no end in sight. In fact the “balanced approach” Mr. Obama pressed to address the fiscal crisis and “reduce the debt” that he victoriously celebrated on TV, the national debt will increase by $4 trillion over the CBO’s 10-year baseline — from $2.9 trillion to nearly $7 trillion per the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Balanced huh? But thien it doesn't apply to Mr. Obama. Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. It is reported that taxpayers spend $102,000 per year on a “dog handler” for the president.
Eventually the rest of the world is going to lose confidence in the ability of the U.S. government to repay all of this debt. Once confidence in U.S. Treasuries is totally gone, and there are already signs this is starting to happen, the game will be over and the U.S. financial system will collapse.
Mr. Obama continues to act like it is "business as usual" and the wasteful spending just continues to get worse. Have you seen ANYTHING about actually trimming waste, duplication or meaningfully dealing with fraud? We’ve seen lavish conferences at government expense, stimulus that didn’t and shovel ready jobs that weren’t. Someday historians will look back and think that we must have been a nation full of idiots and morons supported by a voting population of the same ilk.
Keep working Doug, the government needs you!