SPEND, SPEND, SPEND
Just when we dared to hope that Pres. Biden and the Democratically controlled Congress would cut back spending in order to slow down inflation and avoid recession, the administration came up with a 4,000+ page bill costing taxpayers $1.7 trillion which brings our national debt to $32+ trillion. All I can say is why, what, who and when?
WHY
...was Pres. Biden’s budget request, which was due on the first Monday of February, released March 28th? Why was the budget not resolved by the Senate until Dec 23 when it was due Oct 1? What was Senate doing during 2022 that was more important than paying bills and balancing the US checkbook? Or was rushing this bill through just part of a plan, knowing full well that congressmen would be too concerned about getting home for Christmas before a major storm took over our country, to make a stand against another “pork bill” that was packed full of unnecessary Democratic Christmas gifts that would do nothing for inflation? |
WHAT
...is in this omnibus bill? First, it is good to know that omnibus means “containing or including many items.” This includes 4,155 pages that the congressmen were supposed to read before voting. I don’t know about you, but I am a fairly fast reader but no way can anyone read this in two days, even if you stay up all night. It is also called an omnibus bill because it includes all the bills that weren’t resolved during 2022 and were swept into one large bill. This bill allots $750,000 for fire alarm modernization at the metropolitan opera. There's $3 million for an LGBTQ museum in New York, more than $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail, $200 million for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund and $7.5 million for studying "the domestic radicalization phenomenon." and authorization for the creation of a Ukrainian Independence Park. |
The word salmon appears in the bill 48 times, Rep. Dan Bishop (R–N.C.) noted, and $65 million is allotted for Pacific coastal salmon recovery. There's also an additional $5 million for studying the impacts of culverts, roads, and bridges on salmon populations, and $65.7 million for international fisheries commissions and $3 million for bee-friendly highways. The bill also provides a salary increase of 21% for congressional staff who make on the average a little less than $170,00 per year. That is more than teachers, police and firefighters make. Finally, Federal employees and the military are supposed to get a 4.6% pay raise. I don’t mind that regular soldiers get a raise but how many of regular workers are getting any raise at all. Or have a job or their business? |
WHO
...read the 4,155 pages? We know that all the democrats voted for the bill even the ones elected in Colorado. The only democrat who voted against the bill was AOC! I have to give her kudos for standing up for her agenda, less immigration policing and less military spending, even if I don’t agree with her. But who were the republicans that voted for this bill?
Senate: Roy Blunt (Missouri), John Boozman (Arkansas), Shelley Capito (West Virginia), Susan Collins (Maine), John Cornyn (Texas), Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma), Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Mike Rounds (South Dakota), Richard Shelby (Alabama), John Thune (South Dakota), Roger Wicker (Mississippi), Todd Young (Indiana), Jerry Moran (Kansas)
House: Fred Upton of Michigan, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Adam Kinzinger and Rodney Davis of Illinois, Chris Jacobs and John Katko of New York, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Jaime Herrera Butler of Washington State, and Steve Womack of Arkansas. |
I guess all I can say is “Shame on you for being forced into a corner and not standing and fighting. You were not elected to kowtow to a liberal agenda nor lose your integrity by pretending that you even read this bill.”
Colorado Republicans Lauren Boebert and Doug Lamborn voted against the bill. GOP Rep. Ken Buck was one of four members listed as not voting. A number of congress members voted by proxy, but Buck has been the one member of the delegation not to utilize proxy voting when he is out of town.
Colorado Republicans Lauren Boebert and Doug Lamborn voted against the bill. GOP Rep. Ken Buck was one of four members listed as not voting. A number of congress members voted by proxy, but Buck has been the one member of the delegation not to utilize proxy voting when he is out of town.
WHEN
...will all this political posturing end? When will congressmen and congresswomen vote their constituents conservative values. When will we stop supporting “green” policies that only benefit the privileged, sexual agendas which only provides more money for perverted and aberrant behavior, government control that takes away freedom of speech and other constitutional rights. open borders to any and all, and lack of prosecution for illegal acts. When can we operate in truth, honor and respectability and expect that from our elected officials?