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Government's budget
By Marlene Kaiser of Kaiser Distributing
This is love week, and I love this country very much. I'm a flag raising, dues paying American. Right now, I'm teed off at congress. These people from the Tea Party came into office screaming to repeal our Affordable health care law, but all but one of them took their health care as a congressman, where they pay a small amount of their salary for health care and the government pays the rest. They will be entitled to this for the rest of their lives, no matter how long they serve in congress. I have been waiting for them to say, we feel your pain in cutting your policemen, firemen, paying your soldiers less, and cutting Big Bird funding and other programs that help the most vulnerable Americans. They should say because we understand, we are willing to cut our salary and those of our staffs by 10%,hopefully more. I remember another cost cutting congress where they didn't ask for their yearly raise, they passed a law that says they automatically get a raise every year instead. That way we ordinary Americans aren't as aware of their raises. I don't know what there salary cuts would amount to, or what it would save, but it would save somewhere in the billions. I have been waiting for them to say that we are cutting subsidies to oil companies. We are increasing the taxes on the wealthy who pay less than 16% of the first $250,000 of their income. Can you imagine taking $27,000 or more deductions for just one section of your income tax form? Adding up all of the rich people's deductions, where they not only shaft the federal government, but their own states, cities and counties as well. Many of their total deductions amount to $50,000 or more per tax form according to News Max. Plus, many of the very rich have figured how to pay no taxes at all. Don't they love the good ole USA as much as I do or you do? Obviously, money means more to them than paying a fair share of taxes. It is sad that so many were elected to this congress with the single idea to take from the most vulnerable and average Americans because that is the only place they are considering cutting. While they get all that they can from being a congressman. This is not right. Cutting should be across the board and include them too. This is the greatest country on earth, or so we think, but if you walked in my shoes, you would see a lot of very poor people and injustice done to them because they didn't have the resources to fight against the establishment. Many of them didn't have the education and know how to claim what is rightfully theirs. Why can't the congressmen realize that they would be more respected if they were willing to also take the cuts necessary to make our deficit less. Warren Buffett has said that we aren't taxing the rich enough. He should know, why don't our congress believe him? This country is becoming a third world country because there is a growing divide between the very rich and the very poor. The rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. We have to depend on the congress to change this, and make this country again more fair to all of us.That way we can again love this country and really believe that it is the greatest one on earth. We can respect our congress believing that they do care about the average American, as well as the future of this country and its deficit. President Obama was a community organizer, and he isn't getting the respect that he needs for that. This job is every bit as challenging as being a CEO of a large company. A community organizer is using and budgeting government money, but so is much of industry. President Obama became a community organizer as a result of his political fighting as early as high school. As a community organizer, he understands budgeting by the government, he knows that he has to ask for more than he really expects because it will be cut. By being high in his budget, he can control the cuts better. Study the budget system of the government and you'll see what I mean. If you don't put in enough, you do without, if you put in too much and don't spend it, it is taken back by the government on the next budget cycle.Every budget has a built in increase. Many of these are cut and everyone turning in a budget knows that. Government budgets are a pile of budgets from each of the departments and agencies that use federal money, they are not devised by the president. The president does have a say in cutting after they are submitted, or sending them back to be resubmitted after you make the suggested cuts. There are so many ways to cut costs in the government, one way that I ran into constantly was not being able to utilize federal money in the best way to benefit my program. I was required to follow regulations that often seemed to have no basis in common sense and made my job more costly to administer. We used to joke that you could walk down any hall where those who wrote the regulations offices were, and hear their feet drop from off the desk and the chairs being turned around so that when we walked past their door they could appear to be working. We have even gone so far as to remove our noisy high heels and walk in socks to catch them, and sometimes we did. The law I worked with as passed by congress was only a few paragraphs long, the regulations filled bookcases. Well, this is enough ranting, but I'd appreciate it if everyone would take up the cry and ask congressmen to cut their salaries comparable to what they are asking us to do without. Do you realize that it doesn't matter how long they are in congress, they will qualify for a pension when they get 65 that is close to their salary? I have forgotten all that I know about this, and don't want to look it up,so I could be wrong. Please don't judge me too harshly for my views, they come from being a long time government or non profit executive director that used some government funding to run my program, or as a social worker working with government money to take care of the very most needy Americans. |
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Thank you for sharing this valuable information, Marlene.
Cutting their salaries would be a great start, but I believe that it is their benefit packages that are way out of line with the rest of the citizens.
This is true with most State employees, also.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
Frederick
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