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I Believe We Have A Serious Problem With Our Congress

Stop now if you don't want to read a political rant.

I have a serious problem with the economic machine that is our two-party congress. Every few terms we switch between the Dems and the Repubs having control and favor.

When the Dems are in power, they tend to increase government spending and increase taxes in order to pay for it. When the Repubs are in power, they tend to lower taxes, but they fail to also lower government spending, so we're forced to borrow money to make ends meet. They'll supposedly try to cut the budget, but they'll always fail, knowing that even if it is the right move, it would make them unfavorable amongst the people who are in the receiving end of government spending.

After a few of these cycles, a pattern will emerge. Taxes will merely oscillate in a bearable range, but government spending will always increase, and as a result we'll always end up with more debt and a big deficit in the budget. Every time that the government borrows money to pay for the deficit, we get inflation, which ends up causing wages to effectively drop across the board and puts us in an even worse spot than we would be had we just increased taxes.

When will someone say enough is enough? Will we ever cut spending? This nonsense wasn't possible until the government decided to stop tying our currency to gold.

/rant

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katielass · F

It won't change until enough people get fed up and remember they work for us, we don't work for them. A few years ago a survey was taken of congress and it was shocking that over 90% had the effing gall to say our money BELONGS to the government. Uh, no, it doesn't.

Invisible · 26-30, M

@katielass More people need to read the constitution

katielass · F

@Invisible yeah but even if people understood it there's one thing you can never take back. Entitlements. No entitlement has ever been taken away. People need to understand that when congress talks about cutting or gutting something it's almost never an actual cut, it's just a reduction in the usual increase. Take the recent healthcare bill that the dems blathered about "gutting Medicaid". It didn't even cut Medicaid. It slowly reduced the annual increase over 10 years. But the ding dongs heard gutting Medicaid and they didn't bother to find out the truth. And of course the corrupt media didn't bother educating them. So, we are stuck with a failing healthcare fiasco that is about to implode.

Invisible · 26-30, M

@katielass The war on bad policy starts with a battle over dishonest language.

I do think that if more people really understood the Constitution, then they would know that things like entitlements and the use of federal reserve currency and so much more are unconstitutional and should have never been created

katielass · F

@Invisible I'm not disagreeing with you but once something has started it's almost impossible to reverse it. The overwhelming majority would not see taking entitlements away as the solution, they're too soft hearted. People are going to have to lose everything before they decide to start paying attention to the constitution.

Invisible · 26-30, M

@katielass Sad but true

katielass · F

@Invisible It is sad. I'm older so I'll probably die before things get too bad but you are young. It's people like you I'm concerned about. You aren't one of the zombies who can't think for himself. And that is going to make it very difficult for you. If anyone thinks the fall of our educational system is an accident they'd better reconsider. It's no accident. Someone wants an idiot population, so much easier to control and enslave.