WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 2002 President Bush set a new record by submitting a $2 TRILLION budget to the U.S. Congress. Now, he has surpassed even this previous achievement by submitting a $3 TRILLION budget. What’s wrong with this picture?
The “Spending President,” as I have previously called Mr. Bush, is a RINO (Republican In Name Only) when it comes to spending. He is 'for' big government rather than limited government that our Founding Fathers envisioned and stated in the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Bush likes to spend Taxpayer money on everything from undeclared wars, to rebuilding homes and businesses in hurricane-prone areas, to extending government-prescription drugs to even more people. None of these are spending activities are authorized by the U.S. Constitution. They are not the proper role of our limited government; any government that is, except a socialist, nanny state government.
Not only are these activities unconstitutional, but they are inflationary as well. Printing worthless paper money that is not backed by gold or silver, the U.S. Treasury just keeps printing more money whenever it is needed by the politicians. And that is quite often these days.That is what politicians do; spend our money. This causes the dollar to lose value. Not only is this destructive to our economy, but it causes the size of the government to grow. We, the People and the Taxpayers, need neither.
Before the President sent the record budget to Congress; even before they had even seen it, the Democrats in Congress criticized it with their usual mantra: too much money for corporations and the rich and not; enough money for the poor. That was to be expected. And we can also expect an even higher budget with higher taxes and no tax cut from the Democrats. So if you think the Bush spending spree is bad, just wait to the Democrats get their turn.
This insanity must stop! Our economy and our wallets cannot take it anymore.
Haven’t these spending politicians learned anything? Obviously not. They continue to spend this nation into bankruptcy. Of the five presidential candidates left standing after the Potomac Primaries, there is only one that can be reliably counted on to reduce the size of government and his name is Ron Paul. The rest can be reliably counted on to spend this great Nation into the grave.
That is why the People must wrest control of the government from these corrupt politicians and replace them with people who understand what a limited government means. At the local, state and national levels, we must work through the electoral process to change our government for the better.
Noel Gibeson
RNC member