Congress has lost all control

I just noticed that Congress is in the process of passing a bill to help fight AIDS globally. This doesn’t sound too bad on the face of it but when you see the price tag, the shock is too much to handle. $50 Billion dollars over the next 5 years and that does not include the add-ons that always seem to make their way into any congressional action. This is on top of the current 5-year bill expiring in September that spent $15 Billion dollars. That is BILLION with a capital B.

This has gotten to the scale where the old phrase ‘Here a million, there a million, pretty soon you’re talking about real money’ seems like the good old days. If this isn’t a shining example of a government that has completely lost its senses I don’t know what is. Congress no longer has any ties to reality. And evidently neither do the American people as there is no public outcry against this waste of taxpayer monies. There is hardly any mention of this so it is probably not widely known. In fact there were more news articles listed for ‘cats vs. coyotes dispute at Cal State Long Beach’ than a mega mega budget item from Congress. 26 articles to 16.

I will be honest here and state that I would still be upset if we were talking about $50 million dollars over 5 years because we would still be talking about spending way too much money inappropriately. The US government should not be in this business and many others. That it has obligated the American people’s future for things that it has no business doing and for amounts that are obscene should be criminal. At the very least we should hold them accountable and get them out of office.

The biggest problem we face is not the taking down the working man through taxes, but the out of control spending by our government that plagues the common taxpayer. There is the fact that the current tax structure is inequitable but that can be solved. I will present the Nef Tax Plan later to show how. The spending problems of our legislature seem a much larger task to tackle, and at this point not even Dr. Phil could make a dent in changing their deviant behavior.

The Democrats have being calling for change and they control the House and Senate and this is representative of what we are seeing; more of the same irresponsible acts. This one is also supported by Republicans and Pres. Bush which continues to make me think that there really are no differences and we only see two sides of the same coin.

When there are so many other actions that Congress could take that would elevate this nation and strengthen its position as a leader of nations, bending to the pressures of special interest groups and political correctness to this extend is truly embarrassing. Perhaps Congress should be listening to another voice for a change. Perhaps we should be the ones to provide it. In an effort to save our nation and our futures, perhaps the time is now.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farr West.