Just when all indications pointed to real change in our country, the second largest and wasteful budget in history has passed.
In this post, I will be venting about the GOP and this new $1.6 Trillion budget Bill.
During the Obama years, all eight of them, I screamed and complained and condemned the spending, the bail outs, and the picking of winners and losers. When Trump was elected I was both amazed and gleeful. The thought of having a President with a successful business background was and still is, thrilling. He just got into office and I started hearing things like, the cost for the new Air Force One was way too high and he got Boeing to reduce the cost by a billion dollars and said the cost was still too high. I said, to myself, “That’s what I am talking about”. I was referring to the way a business person looks at such things. He wants things as cheap as possible, wants the quality to be better than ever and in the end, still isn’t completely satisfied. Then he pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accord, saying it was a big waste of American tax dollars. Again, I couldn’t have been more impressed. Then he let all of the allies in NATO know that the U.S. expects them to start paying their fair share. Beautiful.
Fast forward to the current budget bill. The swamp, as he calls it is up to the same old tired ways. It’s as if we don’t even exist. We quickly get our fill of Obama controlling both houses and in 2010; we send a message to Washington by giving the GOP control of the House. Then, and sadly, Obama is reelected in 2012. So, we give the GOP the Senate. They accomplished nothing during Obama’s second term, with the possible exception of being able to hold their ground and not allow Obama to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. Other than that, Obama had his way and I should have realized then that the leadership in Congress weren’t any different than the Liberal Democrats.
With all of the ilk Obama gave us and the lack of progress in the GOP controlled House and Senate swamp, the Nation said, “enough is enough,” and we elected President Trump. “Now we get our Nation back!” I said, to myself, “Now we’ve given the GOP all three branches of Government. Winning is going to be fun.”
While there is no question things are much better and much has been accomplished, this latest budget makes clear that the swamp is alive and well.
The GOP has been promising for years that once they were back in power they would repeal Obamacare, it hasn’t happened. They would stop all funding of Planned Parenthood. This budget continues to fund them. The GOP yelled and pointed out how our National Debt was going to cripple the country, that Obama added more to the debt than all the Presidents before him combined. This budget does the same thing, it borrows more money and increases the debt by another trillion dollars.
We the people just got done voting the President into office for very specific reasons. We want a Wall to protect our borders, we want out of Obamacare, we want ISIS killed so we can get out of these wars in the Middle East, and we want Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.
We didn’t vote for the President nor did we give the GOP both houses so that we don’t get a wall, so that we prop up Obamacare (keep it alive) and we sure as hell didn’t vote them all in so we can continue to borrow money from China and increase our debt.
The things that the President can control, he has controlled. Unemployment is at an all-time low, the economy during the first year was on fire. Consumer confidence is high. ISIS really is the JV team now that Trump allowed the Generals do what Generals do, WIN. But sadly, the President signed this rotten-to-the-core budget. For me, that is strike one. From here on out I’ll have one eye closed watching his every move. I was fooled by Bush. I won’t be fooled again. As if, that is some big threat… All I am saying is that some things don’t ever change. Congress is and always has been a drain on the Nation. These clowns spend our money like there is no end. They don’t listen to us, they lie to us and probably laugh behind our backs.
As Americans, we did our part. It wasn’t easy taking our Government back. Sadly, we need to keep working because all of the swamp dwellers who voted for this budget must go and that’s a lot of Senators and Representatives.
It could be worse I suppose, we could be forced to gather our arms and go to war fighting for our liberty. Don’t be confused though, this needs to be treated as if it is war. Lie to us once, shame on you, lie to us twice, shame on us. Lie to us three times and all-out war, it is. Maybe the time has finally come for a third party. Let’s face it, there really isn’t any difference between the two we have now. As President Trump has said, they’re all talk and no action.
I hope to see you at the ballot box in November. I’ll be voting for folks who are truly conservative, if any are running…
