We’re going to continue to spend more than we take in. A constant policy of Washington (click link to see chart).
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/growth-federal-spending-revenue
We’re going to push this plan out 10 years, also a constant policy of Washington. Going out 10 years is just Washington’s way of avoiding or taking ownership of the problem. Little in Washington remains intact over a 10 year period.
We’re going to disregard the findings of a commission assigned to study the debt problem. In Washington, results of studies are only trumpeted if they agree with the politician’s personal agenda.
In one case we’re going to add billions of dollars to education. (Remember, for every billion dollars spent 200,000 families have to pay $5,000 in taxes.) The cost of college education is rising much faster than the rate of inflation. Nothing is being done to lower the cost. The government is just making it easier for students to borrow to pay for the cost. Economics 101 teaches that if there is more money to purchase a good or service the price of that good or service will increase. Politicians need to take Economics 101.
Money will be added to the public school system. The reason, they say, is that our children need to be better educated. Since when did adding money equate to a better education. The cost of public education has been rising for years and paying for it has become a strain on many families. Wouldn’t it make more sense to find out why, after years and years of adding money to the educational system we still don’t produce well educated children? Shouldn’t we find out what the problem is before we ask the American people to fund a program that isn’t working?
This type of thinking is commonplace in Washington. Throwing money at a problem solves the problem. It’s time to make government employees and elected officials productive, and responsible to do the job they were hired or elected to do.
In the mean time, I’m going to have another glass of warm milk.
See excerpts from my Grandpa's book on Amazon:
Essays From a Fed-Up Middle Aged, Middle Class American" By: Andy Strum
http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Fed-Up-Middle-Class-American/dp/1453640460/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297787552&sr=1-1
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