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Insanity Island.... better get ready... but you can't . . . I am a bottom line person. For awhile now I have maintained that America more than likely may be through. There was a youtube a guy put up of his cat that used to flush the toilet all day long and just watch the water swirl in the bowl as it went down the drain. That cat just seemed to interested in watching the process over and over and over again. I may not watch all the time, but I can hear it in my spirit as America splinters the Constitution and pieces of it get disrespected and slowly the very fibers of it vanish a little more each day. . Sometimes we have our little outbursts in life, and on the surface a person may scratch their head and wonder how we could react to what has happened in the way that we do. Truth be told, many times the reaction was more about pent up frustrations from other things that come out because it just has to, and the valve that opened was not even the valve meant for it. It was just there. But it had to come out. Yeah we shake our heads because we know it wasn't about what happened, it was about other things. The inevitable became a reality. . I have a question. How many people even know what the spending is going to be here in America this year? From what I understand it is going to be 3.8 Trillion dollars. Not Billion. Trillion. That is a lot of money is it not? It is beyond my grasp to be honest. Does anyone know how much our revenue is going to be this year? (money the Government takes in) From what I understand, the revenue of the United States will be 2.2 Billion. Well my math is not fuzzy. That leaves a 1.6 Trillion dollar deficit just for one year. To put this in perspective, under the Bush years, our whole budget was less than the deficit that is happening just this year. Think about that for a minute. Do you realize how insane this is. Seriously. . Lets try another perspective. How would you live your life if you had only about 57% of the money you needed to function off of for the next year? You have your mortgage for your home, your car payment, utilities, food, gas for your car and maintenance's as well as basic needs such as clothing. However for the year you had added many things you just wanted or perceived as a right that you should have and it put you 43% over your means? You have no way of possibly paying this, and yet you still forge forward carelessly. How do you pay for this. It is simple you can not. Now in the private sector you would have to prioritize or you would lose everything eventually.......most would prioritize because they want a place to live and a car to drive. Common sense would win out, albeit a mess. . Ok, lets deal with what is at hand. Our Country is insanely spending, borrowing at 46 cents on the dollar. As it is, I have read that right now each person in America has to pay $2000.00 a year just on the interest. Not everyone is a tax payer. That $2000.00 is just for interest, not paying down any deficit. Sound gloomy? It is gloomy. It is more out of control than the mind can gauge, unless of course you have actually dealt with this sort of stuff. . Here in Florida, Rick Scott has been making actual budget cuts that actually make a difference in the annual budget and cause things to be fiscally responsible and sound. Things that effect the actual budget for Florida. Mitt Romney inherited a 3 Billion a year operating budget deficit. He like Rick Scott cut into things. Cut into areas where he could. He cut 341 social programs, under prioritization to bring his states budget to 1% in the black in 2 years. That is being responsible. It is being smart. It is how a person in the private sector would balance their lives as well. . Wow, 1.65 trillion in arrears for just one year. Once gain more than the budgets in the past administration. Are we really grasping this? I do not think so. The goal for the Republicans was to cut 100 Billion dollars out of the Budget that is 1.6 Trillion over our revenue. That would be easily spoken as 1/16th. Even with that 1/16, it is still a disaster of economic proportions is it not? That is like looking at a mess and deciding you will be able to part with your flying lessons for a year and keep all the other stuff going that you can not afford. One thing you can not do that the government can do, is print more money. . In the day, when things were balanced in thinking, we had a gold standard. The money we had was backed by Gold which has great value. What goes on today is like writing checks way beyond what our bank account holds. If we did this, we would have a new partner in a little room that restricted us from the rest of the world because it would be considered a criminal offense. It is criminal what is going on. But who are the police of our government. Who can hold them to the standards we as citizens are held to everyday. . We were talking $100 billion dollar cuts originally for this years unbelievable deficit. Somewhere along the way, this ended up being 38.5 Billion. People who claim to be Conservatives are applauding this deal. Applauding John Boehner for doing well against the insanity of the Democrats. It is at this point that I bring in Mark Levin. He and his good friend Neil Cavuto got into a discussion on Fox news. Mark Levin was in his own way livid about how bad all of this really was. Neil kinda felt he was being too harsh. Many reports out thought it was this great victory. Mark Levin, in his day in President Reagans office has been around budget making. He knows the ins and outs of how the game is played. He also has insiders at this point in offices in the US Government who tell him what a document says if he needs to know. . Mark Levin initially came out and stated that he was not sure, but perhaps half of that 38.5 Billion dollar deal is not even in this years budget and is in other years. The more that has been coming out has been proving this to be true. We shall see. My does much better research than I do. He takes time to validate sources. From what he has shared with me, the cuts are not cuts because the deficit is increasing by $300 Billion this year, so it can not be considered a cut. At best it is a slight decrease in the increase of debt spending. he is right. . I have added a visual, this is Michael Rameriz Cartoon that shows what this $38.5 Billion amounts to in the part of the whole pie we have. It is very minimal. His cartoon actually shows what was presumed to be the deal, before one was struck. It is a crumb. That is what has taken place. To further put this in perspective, it has also been stated that $54 Billion has been added to our debt in the last eight days. So.......chopping off $38.5 Billion is a victory how? Even if the original goal of $100 Billion would have been met, it was only a 46% gain off of 8 days... How many days in a year? 365. . Some are calling those who stand up, such as myself extreme. But less than 1% has been addressed of a deficit for one years spending that is more out of control than all the Presidents spending combined in History. Who is going to pay for this? Perhaps a better question is how? What is extreme in all of this is that nothing at all was really accomplished. It is an embarrassment to common sense. It is extremely naive to think attacking a problem at less than 1% is even a moral victory. What point of this are people missing? How can anyone look at this and cheer? I fear it is too late. This action is absurd. It would still be absurd at $1 Trillion in cuts. This is insane. And people who point this out are called insane? . 
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4/10/2011 6:51 am |
Right On!!! This Budget cut of 38 billion wasnt even a cut at all--Michelle Bachman--Dick Morris and others are speaking out!! The Republicans--mainly Boehner Bowed to the other side and made it sound like this is a Good thing for us--which is baloney!! I also like Mark Levine--Thank you for this Post!!!
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