Waste Not, Want Not

I have kept away from all the sequester hullabaloo that has been going on. There was plenty of ink, both real and virtual, being used up on the subject and I hate to be just another face in the crowd.  So I have stayed away. But I can resist no longer.

I must assume that anyone that finds their way here knows that there is no cut in spending. The only cut is a 2.3 percent cut in the increase in spending over the next year. In other words, nothing really needs to change. Government just needs to grow 2.3 percent less than they planned.

Then, of course, Obama and his minions trot out the politics of fear. Scare the elderly. Scare the single moms. Scare the poor. They are the first people he will be forced to rip money away from if he does not get his way. Bull!!! He is pathetic. He knows better. But where better to be a bully than in the bully pulpit. After this performance, Mr. Obama has no right to expect the respect of any American citizen.

Even worse, the Democrat members of Congress that are supposed represent, directly, the people that sent them to Washington have stood mute if not been part of the President's active support. Every one of them should be sent home at their next run for office. They are the definition of spineless.

I have been watching the news on TV and I have seen interview after interview with Washington insiders pointing out a myriad of failed, useless, wasteful, and duplicated programs, that, if eliminated, would go far beyond that meager 2.3 percent cut. It would actually be the start for getting a grip on the over spending that is ruining our country.

The President acts like that small amount of money is going to stop government in it's tracks. But don't forget where that money comes from. It comes from our pockets. So the government can't possibly survive with a little smaller raise but your family is supposed to survive on a decrease in income to finance Obama's spending habits.

Take away his credit card. He gets far to much as it is. The House of Representatives can do that. They hold the purse strings. They need to put the President in a twelve step program for shop-a-holics.