Where There Is No "Representation"

Today we will see the Senate vote on a two year budget deal that continues down the "spend like there is no tomorrow" path we have seen for the past five years. Our National Debt has gone from $10.2 Trillion to $17.2 Trillion in those five years - an increase of 70 percent. Five years out of our more than 220 years of existence has given us 70 percent more debt! Congress has failed at every turn to stop this headlong rush into fiscal insolvency by heaping more debt on generations yet unborn. To add insult to injury, this current budget deal will cut pension benefits to those who put their lives on the line for this nation, our military retirees. Notice there is no talk of cutting pensions or benefits for the people who put us in this bind (the U.S. Congress)? In fact, we see acts of "magnificence" (beneficence) where Congress gives millionaire widows of Congressmen huge grants of U.S. taxpayer money (what would have been salary for these pompous buffoons). That money didn't come out of their pockets as a donation. No, it came out of the pockets of taxpaying citizens, and that pool is shrinking rapidly every month because of our horrid economy. Congress tries to fool us by talking about Billions in savings over tens of years - paltry hundredths of a percent of the money they spend annually! Then they spend (and BORROW) at least a Trillion more annually than they take in. Can you understand this insanity?

The interests of The People are no longer paramount in the eyes of our elected "representatives". It seems they are more interested in lining their own pockets while destroying the fiscal solvency of our nation and making the common citizen ever more in debt. Unfortunately, it appears this nation is growing ever closer to the time when citizens, if they have the moral outrage over the injustices of our current system, may have to rise up and overthrow this government. This was how this nation was born. Lack of honest representation, focusing on the best interests of the citizens, created a nation of The People and by The People. That nation has been mutated into a nation of the Politician, for the Politician, and seemingly totally unanswerable to The People. Without drastic and rapid change back to our roots, the United States will go the way of Rome and fall to corruption and in flames.

Stand strong, Patriots!  No Compromise, No Surrender!