Op-Eds
It must be nice to be Hunter Biden, claiming he was maltreated by the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees because he couldn’t dictate when, where, and how he would give testimony about the Biden Family Corruption.
In the current atmosphere of acrimony surrounding the failure of Congress to produce a balanced budget, or even an unbalanced budget, it is important to review the facts. The facts are important because the Uniparty, the Swamp, the Establishment, and many media propagandists are engaged in a parade of fearmongering.
An outsider looking at the United States would see a nation that has lost control of its borders, lost control of its currency, and lost its prestige around the world. What might be the most glaring observation, however, is that the national government spends almost $2 trillion per year more than it brings in — plus $1 trillion of interest on the national debt.
The very existence of the United States is at stake.
Certainly, the freedoms that we used to take for granted are at stake, such as:
My fellow Americans, do you think that we should keep Pelosi-Biden-Schumer spending together with the same policies that have given us inflation, wide open borders, energy dependency, woke military, and woke education, all while paying for Ukraine’s war machine, government, and pensions?
I recently read an opinion piece claiming that there is a “shutdown caucus” in Congress that wants a government shutdown. Yet, as even the author acknowledged, government will keep operating. It’s not a shutdown of government, it’s really a pause in out-of-control federal spending related to nonessentials.
There is no impact to Social Security, Medicare, or other mandatory spending programs. Even within the discretionary spending paused, essential government functions continue and backpay is guaranteed when the pause is lifted.
The fiscal year ends on September 30 this year. Just as it does every year. The fiscal year always ends on the last day of September at midnight. That is one of the consistencies of our government.
Congress is required to pass spending bills for the new fiscal year by September 30 of every year. Congress is required to pass the spending bills before the end of the fiscal year so funding levels for the next fiscal year will be set.
I opposed the last debt ceiling plan in the House because it raised the national debt by $1.5 trillion over a few months, but the deal that Speaker McCarthy has made with President Biden is an even bigger disaster.
The original bill that passed out of the House last month promised fiscal year 2022 spending levels with a savings of approximately $131 billion and rescissions of almost $900 billion.
When decision-makers get locked into a path, they almost intuitively build up regimes, institutions, and rules that reinforce their decision, no matter how suboptimal that path may be. It makes it very difficult, and expensive in the short term, to leave that path.
We just witnessed a true-life example of Nobel Laureate Economist Kenneth Arrow’s Path Dependence or Increasing Returns theory.