So I don\u2019t have to blog it anymore on Face Book…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Over government just submitted a budget for fiscal year 2015 for almost four trillion dollars.\u00a0 The president proudly proclaims that it is focused on creating jobs and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.\u00a0 (I know… two core responsibilities of the government.)<\/p>\n
The budget accepts plainly that it projects a $564 billion deficit…if he gets the $651 billion tax increase he wants on the rich and if the economy recovers like his pixie dust says it will.\u00a0 If he doesn’t get that, but the budget is still passed, we’re looking at another $1.15 trillion dollar deficit for that year only.\u00a0 The interest on the debt alone–JUST THE INTEREST will be more than the defense budget ($496 billion) by 2020.<\/p>\n
Oh, and that defense budget?\u00a0 It is roughly the same as last year but will fund 70,000 fewer Soldiers, fewer aircraft, lower housing allowances, but with higher health care co-pays.\u00a0 We’re carving out two (minimum) of our 10 active divisions and still have the same budget?\u00a0 Where are the savings?<\/p>\n
Two thirds of this 3.9 trillion is Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.\u00a0 $2.6 trillion for just ONE YEAR for those three programs.\u00a0 Seriously? Our government has outgrown its usefulness and is now an obstacle.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Politicians:\u00a0 It has never been truer that you can tell when a politician is lying because his lips are moving.\u00a0 They ALL do.\u00a0 They say what they think you want to hear and then, once elected, do whatever their own warped ideology steers them to.\u00a0 None of them have the inclination to go for a term or two, make a small difference, make things a little better, and then go back to whatever small or family business they were doing before.\u00a0 Jefferson (I think) said we should be electing the unwilling among us.<\/p>\n
Congress was supposed to be a service, not a career.\u00a0 There are people in Congress who have been there since I left high school and that is a long fucking time.<\/p>\n
Think I’m making this up?\u00a0 The longest serving Congressman today, John Dingell has been serving continuously for over 58 years.\u00a0 That is longer than I have been alive.\u00a0 Looking at the list of longest serving, the top ten are all Democrats.\u00a0 17 of the top 20 are Democrats.\u00a0 Charlie Rangel, that crook from New York:\u00a0 over 43 years.\u00a0 71 of the top 100 longest serving are Democrats.\u00a0 That’s over 70%.\u00a0 These same clowns have been making our public policy since Gerald Ford was President. 15 of those 100 are STILL occupying office (since they stopped serving you long ago).\u00a0 How in touch can these people possible be with Main Street America?\u00a0 Right there is a well documented argument for term limits.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed<\/span><\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 Seems pretty simple but I’m not a constitutional law student.\u00a0 My interpretation says the federal government shall not have the ability to limit, control, or otherwise harness the right of the people to\u00a0possess and brandish\u00a0weapons.\u00a0 The amendment was put in place to provide for the security of the state against an over-reaching federal government.\u00a0 It does not specify and therefore cannot be implied that this means people who have guns have to be in “the militia”.\u00a0 It does not state that the weapons have to hold fewer than 10 rounds.\u00a0 It does not specify that it cannot possess a bayonet lug or have a folding stock.\u00a0 The Second Amendment is my justification by itself to be able to carry a concealed weapon.<\/p>\n