Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 9:05:47 GMT -6
Originally Posted to FaceBook July 7, 2018 - Reposted to FaceBook Nov 5, 2018 - Moved here July 24 2021
BOTH parties are wrong and we should be looking for people to elect that have fiscal policies and balanced budgets in mind. Long Read below.
I find myself at odds with the entirety of both the full liberal and conservative agendas. There are pieces that I like on each side, but much that I don't. I am for smaller government because it both interferes with freedom and costs too damned much. I have yet to see flocks of politicians willing to vote for causes and introducing bills that limit their own power by decreasing the government's size or spending.
Our two choices right now are to increase what the government does and has control of drastically while increasing taxes to pay for it (none of the increase goes to paying down current debts) or increasing what the government is overseeing and involved in directly while keeping taxes the same or lowering them a little. So we either spend a lot more and get more taken from us at the same time, or we spend a little more, but get to keep some for ourselves or keep the exact same amount.
Where are the adults saying "We need to decrease spending across the board and we need to take the excesses created and pay down/off our credit cards, because the monthly minimums are going to have unspeakable consequences." There are few or none. It's all children that see this huge tidal wave of money come through and they are trying to figure out how to get themselves and their friends the biggest piece of it that they can. They pay lip service to what is right, just like the debt dodger does when the bill collectors or the banks call, but if you look at what is actually happening, the blank checks keep going out and the debt keeps going up.
We need laws that keep the politician in check or that throw them out of office if they fail to behave as an adult should. In the real world, if someone gets over their head in debt, for whatever reason, what happens to them? They are denied credit, make it impossible to operate on anything but a cash-in-hand basis and are seen as a huge risk for getting anything beyond their current means. This time is approaching for America if we don't make the change on our own now.
We are a $100,000/year income family with $600,000 in debt and yearly expenses of $110,000/year. Those are the numbers if you break down our government projected tax revenue in 2019, our national debt and a conservative estimate on our normal yearly budget into numbers we deal with regularly.
The government routinely spends 10%-25% more than we take in with taxes yearly. Those are the numbers that congress is approving in our budgets. There is no good parenting here, there is only the "I want to be your friend" parenting that has become prevalent across the country.
The budgets are put together by people asking for the amount of money that they think they need to run their departments. There is no one out there saying no or imposing strict limits. At least there aren't enough of them. When your debt is already 6 times your annual income, who in charge would say, oh sure, no problem kiddo, you can have whatever you need to still keep up the style you are accustomed to? We will just open up another credit card to max out, no problem!
That's where we are. I don't know how to fix it. I am going to do some research on how the people can actually go around congress and demand that these things happen or pass laws, because congress definitely won't do it themselves . . . voting to limit their own power and influence for the good of the country? Laughable. Making the hard decisions that need to be made? People don't get elected on those platforms because we have become a nation of children that follow whatever bright and shiny thing is next promised to us rather than being an informed voter and knowledgeable citizen of the country and seeing what is happening and taking a stand against it. Right now we can only speak with our votes and I am not sure that there is anyone out there currently in office that deserves to keep it given the way our finances are going.
BOTH parties are wrong and we should be looking for people to elect that have fiscal policies and balanced budgets in mind. Long Read below.
I find myself at odds with the entirety of both the full liberal and conservative agendas. There are pieces that I like on each side, but much that I don't. I am for smaller government because it both interferes with freedom and costs too damned much. I have yet to see flocks of politicians willing to vote for causes and introducing bills that limit their own power by decreasing the government's size or spending.
Our two choices right now are to increase what the government does and has control of drastically while increasing taxes to pay for it (none of the increase goes to paying down current debts) or increasing what the government is overseeing and involved in directly while keeping taxes the same or lowering them a little. So we either spend a lot more and get more taken from us at the same time, or we spend a little more, but get to keep some for ourselves or keep the exact same amount.
Where are the adults saying "We need to decrease spending across the board and we need to take the excesses created and pay down/off our credit cards, because the monthly minimums are going to have unspeakable consequences." There are few or none. It's all children that see this huge tidal wave of money come through and they are trying to figure out how to get themselves and their friends the biggest piece of it that they can. They pay lip service to what is right, just like the debt dodger does when the bill collectors or the banks call, but if you look at what is actually happening, the blank checks keep going out and the debt keeps going up.
We need laws that keep the politician in check or that throw them out of office if they fail to behave as an adult should. In the real world, if someone gets over their head in debt, for whatever reason, what happens to them? They are denied credit, make it impossible to operate on anything but a cash-in-hand basis and are seen as a huge risk for getting anything beyond their current means. This time is approaching for America if we don't make the change on our own now.
We are a $100,000/year income family with $600,000 in debt and yearly expenses of $110,000/year. Those are the numbers if you break down our government projected tax revenue in 2019, our national debt and a conservative estimate on our normal yearly budget into numbers we deal with regularly.
The government routinely spends 10%-25% more than we take in with taxes yearly. Those are the numbers that congress is approving in our budgets. There is no good parenting here, there is only the "I want to be your friend" parenting that has become prevalent across the country.
The budgets are put together by people asking for the amount of money that they think they need to run their departments. There is no one out there saying no or imposing strict limits. At least there aren't enough of them. When your debt is already 6 times your annual income, who in charge would say, oh sure, no problem kiddo, you can have whatever you need to still keep up the style you are accustomed to? We will just open up another credit card to max out, no problem!
That's where we are. I don't know how to fix it. I am going to do some research on how the people can actually go around congress and demand that these things happen or pass laws, because congress definitely won't do it themselves . . . voting to limit their own power and influence for the good of the country? Laughable. Making the hard decisions that need to be made? People don't get elected on those platforms because we have become a nation of children that follow whatever bright and shiny thing is next promised to us rather than being an informed voter and knowledgeable citizen of the country and seeing what is happening and taking a stand against it. Right now we can only speak with our votes and I am not sure that there is anyone out there currently in office that deserves to keep it given the way our finances are going.