If you read many of the conservative blogs or articles, you will see a count of how many days since Congress passed a budget. As of today it is 819. The Democrat party is responsible for most of this because for about 700 of those days they controlled the House, Senate, and of course had the Socialist in the Whitehouse. However, I am not willing to only blame Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, the entire system of allowing the government to operate without fiscal controls is at fault.
I live in Miami-Dade County in the State of Florida. In the County Charter and the State Constitution there are provisions that force politicians to produce and then abide by a balanced budget. As I think about it further, my wife also requires a balanced budget. So the question is why do we accept the Federal government’s ability to ignore the budgeting process and spend money as they wish? We shouldn’t!
Both political parties need to have a limit placed on them by the people. The process of budgeting forces debate on the priorities set by the President. If you wish to spend money like a drunken sailor, make your argument, convince the majority of your peers, and then vote for a big budget. You may have to explain yourself to the voters in the next election, but you did what you thought was best, right? On the other hand, you may want to cut Federal spending to $37 total. During your re-election campaign, your opponent will say you were killing senior citizens and that may not work out too well either.
It seems to me that budgeting forces debate and common sense budget allotments because of elections. That is too reasonable and I guess why we don’t currently have a budget, nor have we had one for almost three years. It is time to take this out of the hands of the politicians, and put it in the hands of people. We need a Constitutional Amendment requiring a balanced budget. There was a provision in the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan put forward that would start the amendment on its way, but Dingy Reid refused to bring it up for a vote. These politicians need to be shown that WE are in charge, they are simply representatives.
Let’s get on the bandwagon. You can write your representative and also support the many organizations that work for a balanced budget constitutional amendment.
Posted by scr2695 
