This Just In- Government is Waste

Our 2010 projected Federal Budget Deficit is well over one trillion dollars. For some perspective, one trillion looks like this:



1,000,000,000,000



Or put another way, it is one thousand billion. That's right. That's:



1,000 x 1,000,000,000



And this is just the Federal Deficit. Things get even more frightening when you bring it down to the state level, where there is a projected 2010 shortfall totalling $350 billion.



So, if we are in the hole for more than one thousand billion dollars for this year alone on the federal level, and more than 350 billion among the states, how is it that we can still be throwing money overboard in foreign aid, or at all kinds of silly little non-essential pork-barrel projects, like creating National Parks in US territories, or a museum curating neon in the state of Nevada.

WE CAN"T PAY FOR ANY OF IT. At least, that is, without borrowing obscene amounts of money from places like China and Japan, or printing new dollars by the metric ton. Something has got to give. SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE! The time has come for the weanies in Washington or in the statehouses to put Country first, make some tough decisions, and GUT their respective budgets. And spare me any Keynesian garbage about how we can spend ourselves out of this crisis by accruing more debt. You cannot buy your way out of $35,000 in credit card debt by obtaining another card, taking out a loan to buy a new car, and lending money to all of your friends.

President Obama promised change, and boy, has he ever delivered! Now, it is the incumbents in DC and all throughout the states who are going to experience change on a grand scale come November. And you can see them, like spooked deer, snifing the political winds and dashing for safety, bailing out of their respective elections before they even have to go before the angry electorate. Folks like Chris Dodd, Evan Bayh, and now, possibly even Harry Reid. Good riddance, one and all. But it is not enough to vote these jokers out... we have to replace them with LEADERS... people who understand and believe in the US Constitution... Men and Women who will put this country back on track...

When I think of America, I don't think of a place that needs to be "remade". In fact, until this Administration began trying to jam their dogmatic progressive socialist worldview down the throats of each and every one of us, I never felt the need to "change" America in any profound way. But now I recognize that America is in need of "change"... a change of leadership. A change of leadership on a nationwide basis, at evert level, across party lines. The time has come to take back our nation.