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This bill may "save billions" only if you assume that the federal government will continue to grow indefinitely. But it will make it very difficult to make real cuts in the federal government in the future. It is apparent that a generation of Americans is rising that will demand freedom and liberty again. This rising generation will go through much turmoil in regaining America's freedom from the parasite elites. Seventy or eighty years from now they will be known as the "greatest generation." |
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How about the Government shutdown certainty act? Imagine the billions we could save not to mention the whole time the government was shutdown, the Constitution won't get strampled on. |
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I love it. Or maybe we could institute a system whereby the entire government shuts down every summer for a month or two, just like in the old days when manufacturing businesses would shutter the factory for a month.
If we could eliminate just 2 out of 12 months, think of all the $$$$$ we could save.
The last thing we need is a piece of legislation to enable permanent operation of a never-ending spending machine. It's like a predator that never sleeps, never stops hunting for new taxes! |
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Whatever the final form of this Bill, it should contain the provision that all the members of the house and senate loose all pay, benefits, and perks starting 1 Oct. until they pass a budget and it's signed. They would also not get any money reimbursed to them for that period.
They should have to finish their job on their own dime like a fixed price contract. We've held up our part of the bargain. If they can't do their jobs ontime, they can deal with life just like the common people they claim to represent.
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Remy, I like the approach; I have tried to figure out a Congress penalty for years, but have not found one.
But we need someone to propose the legislation and to lead the charge to get it enacted. Will you serve? I fear that the first couple years we may have to take up a collection for you. |
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Let's do it! That way, we can not pave any roads, have any tornado warnings, inspect any meat, pay the military, or pay my sainted mother my deceased father's pension which he got for giving his life for his country. Just for two months every year. What the hell. |
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Limiting Congressional spending might require an amendment unfortunately but the best way to curtail constant increases and earmarks would be to prevent the government from spending any money in the current fiscal year unless it was passed in the previous.
Aqualad, the roads are local/state. The feds deign to give the states tax money back (that means you are being overtaxed for services the Feds don't do BTW) and are able to blackmail the states into changing laws they have no business with. This was done with the 55 mph speed limit in the 70s, and the 21 drinking age in the 80s.
You might be surprised how well you and your sainted mother can live without the feds at work. |
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1. You government officials do nothing but steal, lie, cheat, and spend our money on stupid programs that we do not want. If the government shut down permanently tomorrow and all the government bureaucrats and elected officials went home and got real jobs, this country would be a much better place. Therefore, if the government shuts down for a while every year, it will only be to the benefit of the citizenry.
2. Someone came up with the idea that Congressmen should be paid if the government shuts down. I don't think they should ever get paid, they should even have to pay for a parking space, office, staff, and everything else like the rest of us have to. Serving in Congress should be something to do for a few years between careers or in the later part of your life after a great career. It should not be a career.
3. Jim Campbell, your statement has disgusted me. After this election cycle I a unregistering as a Republican because of unprincipled and undeserving political swine like you. Republicans are just like Democrats except they like God more and love war. What made the Republican party strong and different was its fiscal conservatism. You, Bush, and every other slimy Republican member of Congress betrayed that principle, which is the most important for the future survival and prosperity of the US. How much a politician loves Jesus or how many countries he wants to invade next year are irrelevant next to this government's fiscal irresponsibility. |
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Let's make it the average of the last three fiscal years less 10%. That's the way to shrink the Government.
Do you feel better anowrast? Go back and read your point 3; you are the reason that we have a small Democrat majority. Do you think you have better government than two years ago? Be proud of yourself; you and your "the parties are the same" are what is taking us down the tube. You will not compromise and then work with the compromise; you want to take your marbles and go home. |
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...of Democraps and Repulsicans out of control, out of bounds, and out of their minds. It's also a prime example of why it's getting close to Constitutional Convention time. |
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...and make points. anowrast, firstly, what kind of screen name is that? Primarily, I appreciate your straightforward simplicity. The Democraps and Repulsicans, whom we've allowed Congressional carte blanche, over-complicate matters and manners that are basic and rudimentary. Much like TheHistorian with the "average..three years..10%", stuff, we are dealing with the under-intelligent, over-educated egg heads and idiots who, as student council members, frat/club officers, and homecoming/prom kings and queens could only amuse and aggravate us, but as federal officers and officials, can rob us and kill us. TheHistorian exemplifies that liberal school yard emotionality over mentality that declares that compromise is key to all things, so that capitulation conquers conservatism, as all compromise has to come from the right, so to speak.
Anowrast, I TOTALLY agree with the last two sentences in your second point. But, we have to pay our Congresspeople. In fact, they should be paid a whole lot more than the $140K, $180K, or whatever it is now. Not our present Democrap and Repulsican Congresspeople, but ones who would actually do the work that Congresspeople are supposed to do, working as good stewards of the nation's time, talent, and treasury. |
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