Spending
The Problem
What are YOUR tax dollars being spent on?
- Buying controlling interest in a failing company.
- $529 Million dollars to a foreign car company
- 1000's of unused FEMA camp trailers
- NASA spends $66 per person for "cookies and juice"
- 1.2 Trillion on foreign aid since WWII
- Compare the average salary of a Federal Employee to that of the private sector: $106,579 vs. $53,289 (Washington Post, 8/16/06)
- Literally throw away BILLIONS of dollars
- Agencies are encouraged to spend more than they need to, so they do not lose out on money the following year.
- Spends money on things that are not authorized by the US Constitution.
- $700 BILLION will be paid this year in interest alone, towards the national debt. This is being paid to a private banking cartel called, The Federal Reserve. We are paying more to this cartel than the entire Pentagon budget, including the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. What are they spending our money on?
What is the proper role of the federal government?
- The Declaration of Independence explains, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
- The Honorable Ezra Taft Benson, Former Secretary of Agriculture, and religious leader said, "no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life…" (Oct 21, 1968)
- Article 1 Section 8 clearly states what the powers of the federal government are.
- Thomas Paine clearly explains why governments are created in Common Sense.
- Here is a shorter explanation
The Solution
- Ezra Taft Benson said "How is it possible to cut out the various welfare-state features of our government which have already fastened themselves like cancer cells onto the body politic? Isn't drastic surgery already necessary, and can it be performed without endangering the patient? In answer, it is obvious that drastic measures ARE called for. No half-way or compromise actions will suffice. Like all surgery, it will not be without discomfort and perhaps even some scar tissue for a long time to come. But it must be done if the patient is to be saved, and it can be done without undue risk. Obviously, not all welfare-state programs currently in force can be dropped simultaneously without causing tremendous economic and social upheaval. To try to do so would be like finding oneself at the controls of a hijacked airplane and attempting to return it by simply cutting off the engines in flight. It must be flown back, flown back, lowered in altitude, gradually reduced in speed and brought in for a smooth landing. Translated into practical terms, this means that the first step toward restoring the limited concept of government should be to freeze all welfare-state programs at their present level, making sure that no new ones are added. The next step would be to allow all present programs to run out their term with absolutely no renewal. The third step would involve the gradual phasing-out of those programs which are indefinite in their term." (Oct 21, 1968)