Welcome to my blog! I’m not sure quite what this will turn into over time, nor what I’ll write about from day-to-day. As you can tell from the description, this blog has a pretty broad scope when it comes to topics. We’ll touch on a little of everything, but today we’re starting with politics.
Our federal government is spending WAY more money than it brings in each and every year for the past several years. This is referred to by political insiders as the “national deficit.” That’s just a nice way of saying “the drunken national spending binge.” The federal government this year will take in $2.17 trillion and will spend $3.81 trillion. That means that this year alone your government officials in Washington D.C. will overspend by $1.63 trillion. OVERSPEND BY $1.63 TRILLION!!! The absurdity of this should shock every American and cause us to drastically rethink the choices we have made to re-elect the same old people to Washington. But that’s not all…
Today the “Debt Super Committee” failed in its ability to reduce the federal spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years which has automatically triggered some so-called “cuts” to our federal spending. Let’s look at this in a way that most politicians would rather us not. Each year the federal spending automatically increases. So if our government did absolutely nothing, spending would still increase next year by default. And remember, we’re already $1.63 trillion upside down this year alone! Next year that spending will increase again. But Matt…what about all these automatic deep cuts that went into effect? It’s another lie coming out of Washington. GO FIGURE!
The “deep cuts” that automatically went into effect are simply decreasing the amount of spending increases that will occur over the next several years. Let’s use the federal defense budget for example. Originally the defense budget would have increased by 23%. Now with the “deep cuts” that went into effect, the federal defense budget will only increase by 16%. In other words, everyone in the government is getting more money next year, just not as much more money as they thought they were going to get, and this bends everyone out of shape!
Our government is overspending by more and more each year and our politicians, Democrat and Republican, can’t even figure out a way to not spend more than they bring in? Yes cutting our gross overspending will hurt a little. It would hurt if you had to cut your personal spending the same way, but if you or I didn’t stop our spending we’d go bankrupt in a couple of years and lose everything we have and hold dear. I just wonder what will happen to our government…
Thanks for taking the time to read by first post! For the next post, sports. I guess you’ll just have to come back for that one.
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