Obama on Dec 30th, granted lawmakers request to postpone the decision to raise the debt ceiling 1.2 Trillion dollars so they would be in session during the 15-day period allowed for objections. Under an agreement negotiated between Congress and the White House this past summer, Congress has 15 days to vote on a resolution of disapproval for the debt limit hike once Obama submits the notification, but the president would be able to veto any such vote.
Democrats and Republicans fought all summer over the best way to control the country’s debt and deficit and even created a “Special Committee” of the wisest of the wise to “fix” what ails this economy and no surprise, they accomplished nothing. Now, under the August deal, the borrowing cap is raised automatically unless Congress can muster a two-thirds majority in both chambers to block the extension. Of, course this won’t happen so, “pop goes the weasel” another debt increase.
However something good can come of this if we get involved now, in the debate. It has been just shy of 1000 days since the United States government had a budget. It is no small wonder why the debt ceiling must be raised over and over again considering there is NOTHING TO RESTRAIN SPENDING! There is no budget and no debt limit, what do we think would happen? Do we believe Congress would exercise restraint; who are we kidding? So we must speak up now and tell them No Budget, No Debt Increase. This must be our conversation today, tomorrow and however long it takes, to right this sinking ship of fools.
The Legislature convenes for the fiscal session on Feb. 13. It is time for you to contact your legislator and tell them 3 things.
Freeze the budget, absolutely do not increase our State budget by one penny.
Find, waste fraud and abuse within the State budget and eliminate it.
Fund only necessary and proper government functions.
Remember, to tell your legislator. Freeze, Find and Fund.
We must start this conversation now before the session begins because they are already planning what to do with your money. Its you money, tell them how you want it spent.
Thomas
Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social
theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National
Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Sowell was
born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He
dropped out of high school, and served in the United States
Marine Corps during the Korean War. He had received a bachelor’s
degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a master’s degree from Columbia
University in 1959. In 1968, he earned his doctorate degree
in economics from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Sowell
has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell and
University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for “think
tanks” such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at
the Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.
By
Dr. Sowell
The
current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration
to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It
is an America
where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and
incompetent rule. It is
an America where those who have sacrificed nothing
pillage and destroy the lives of those who have
sacrificed greatly. It is an
America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers
and thieves. It is an
America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all
promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American
civil society.
It
is an America where humans have been degraded to the level
of animals:
defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid
of basic hygiene. It is an America where
the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a
free press and individual rights, have been
rejected. It is an America where our
founding documents have been shredded and, with them, every person’s
guaranteed liberties.
It
is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people,
but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi,
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson,
Louis Farrakhan, liberal college
professors, union bosses and other loyal liberal/Communist
Party members will live in
opulent splendor.
It
is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created with
the
willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood , unions,
universities, the Communist Party of America, the
Black Panthers and numerous anti-American foreign
entities.
Barack
Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four
years than
any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the beginning
of what he and his comrades are capable of.
The
Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the annihilation
of America . “Socialism,
in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual
could ignore or evade it.”
Thomas Sowell