But Will That Help? Probably Not – Wait ’till You Read This!
Every day I listen to the pundits complaining about our government spending the country (all of us) into debt that our Grandchildren will be paying. The debt however will still not be paid in full. No-one, niether the pundits nor those in the government that spend it, even suggests how to stop the spending.
Well – I have a plan!
First save $250M by reducing the Congressional staff by half. What do their $M staff do anyway? The House passed health care and no-one, not even a staff member read the bill. How could they have read anything after the first printing? Recall that memorable weekend when the House labored and labored for votes until they had barely enough votes to pass the bill?
Each time a member was bribed into voting yes, there was a change to the bill. With each change there must be a new printing so that all of the voters know for what they are voting. Could YOU have read more than 2,000 pages of information every time a change required a new printing? Even one change brought with it a reading of 2,000+ pages. Can you imagine what that even cost the American taxpayer? How about at least $50,000 for every printing and that only if each Congressional Office Was limited to one copy! If we can pass one bill without all those copies and all that help, we can pass others.
How often have you heard, “we don’t need An Education Department in a Presidential Cabinet.”? OK, we don’t – so let’s take that seriously and close it down. The United States did manage almost 190 years, until the Carter Presdency, without a Department of Education. Saving $46.7B (Education Budget).
Next, we could provide incentives for all Departments of the government for workers over 65 to retire and take their government pensions. The former Education people, not involved in the pension idea, could fill in where those who did. I’ll bet that would reduce another
$250M.
Lately we have been hearing a great deal about housing. Americans have Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD, all of which simply arrange mortgages. Let’s be realistic! Do banks and mortgage companies need government employees to arrange home mortgages? Lending money is a business. Should our government be involved in businesses? Consider how much our government’s recent intervetnion in banks has cost.
And to really tick you off, let me tell you what I found in Wikipedia. In 2008, Director James Lockhart III of the Federal Housing Finance Agency placed both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under a Conservership which could eventually cost our federal treasury sufficient funds for the purpose of stabilizing both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, limited only by the amount of debt that the entire federal government is permitted, by law, to commit to – which could amount to many more trillions of dollars than we are already talking about as being far more than we can ever afford.
I have no idea how we can reduce that kind of debt – I do know we must find a way and tomorrow is not too soon!
Well – I had a plan?
