Our Spending Problems

Our government is driving our economic futures into the ground. It is putting an ENORMOUS burden of debt on our younger generations in the name of political expedience. It is showing unbelievable arrogance in its thinking that it can manage our financial systems and the market as a whole better than its people can. This is laughable when one considers that our government shows ZERO efficiency in managing its own affairs. A debt that is growing $3.85 Billion per day doesn't exactly scream "we know what we're doing lets help you."

That is precisely the problem, the government doesn't know what its doing. The government can't possibly know how to manage the production of resources because it produces NO resources of its own. The only resources government attains are the resources it attains by looting its citizens.

There is enough blame to go around between the congress and the Executive Branch for the growing mess that we are in. However, I would like to focus on the congress for this discussion. Article I section 9.7 of the Constitution, dealing with the Legislative Branch, states, "No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law..." Congress has simply neglected this Constitutional duty of theirs. Instead, they always seem willing to shift that Constitutional duty over to the Executive Branch, which then appropriates funds to wasteful bureaucracies. This can not be stood for. The reasoning behind giving congress the duty of appropriating where our money should go is to put that duty in the hands of the branch of government most representative of the people. This gives more power to the will of the people as opposed to the will of wasteful bureaucrats.

When in the House, I will not vote for any budget proposal that does not seek to cut federal spending by a substantial percentage year over year. I will not vote for a single spending bill that is a hair's breadth over what is Constitutionally allowed. I will seek to do the only thing that government can do to help its people, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!!! All I want for all of us is FREEDOM!!!