The wimpy Republicans, led by Boehner, recently offered a budget reduction of 1.2 Trillion. That sounds pretty good…until you realize that it was over a 10 year period. That is a very wimpy 120 Billion per year….PEANUTS in the overall scope of the size of the federal budget.
For example, last year Big Nanny handed out 4.7 billion for heating assistance – giving money to poor people to pay their heating bills. This year, Team Obama is giving them 2.6 Billion. If any Republican made cuts like that, it would be the major news story on all the media outlets. Matt Lauer would be bawling his eyes out. Katie Couric would be enraged. The DNC attack machine would be in full gear throwing out verbal bombs like “DRACONIAN” five times on every State controlled news program. JarJar Wasserman-Shultz would be reciting the DNC talking points verbatim over-and-over-and-over. The headlines on the New York Times would read, “GOP Wants People to Die”.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/12/cuts-to-fed-heat-aid-could-leave-many-in-cold/
So…who is it that wants to keep the government from reducing spending? A RINO from Maine named, ironically, Snowe:
“A bipartisan effort to restore funding to the federal program is underway on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are urging quick action. The LIHEAP Protection Act was introduced by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island.
“It’s a very paltry sum that the president is proposing given the dimension of the needs of this program and the cost of energy that continues to rise,” Snowe said.”
RINO-Snowe is actually arguing for MORE SPENDING which is exactly what “bi-partisan” always means in Washington DC…
So, instead of allowing an increase in supply to lower energy prices, these Washingdunces are fighting about the amounts of handing out other people’s money. This is the typical way our broken government works. Rather than attack the REAL problem of high energy prices, they subsidize BOTH the energy companies AND the consumer. This government interference is causing the problem AND artificially raising prices for everyone involved.
If we had a workable, reasonable energy policy, we wouldn’t need to subsidize anything…and the Congress could get back to the business of messing up everything else.
