Congress | marjarhead1

19 December, 2024 by Eric Dunkelberger

Regarding government, I believe in two adages. First, if more government is the answer, it was an extremely stupid question! Second, “Trust the Government”, said NO Founding Father ever! Upon reflection, both are very similar, but, considering what’s going on with this government, both are valid points!

As mentioned in the previous post, the General Election six weeks ago will be bringing major changes to the United States starting January 20th, 2025, just a month away. As expected, the rats (in this case, the DemocRats) are not scurrying to abandon ship. In fact, they may be trying to scuttle the ship. The Ship of State, that is. It appears as though they realize that, if they can’t maintain control, they’ll just completely destroy the ship. And it looks like they’ve primed the charges. They want to crash the economy!

As mentioned in the previous post, America is broke, in debt to the tune of $36.245,000,000,000 (that’s over $36 Trillion). Currently, we are spending over $2T more than the government is taking in as taxes. Put into perspective, that’s $271,800 of debt for every taxpayer in the country. Our national debt now is 123.4% of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States. As a country, we are on a cliff. For the last 15-20 years, the image of us driving off that cliff, resulting in an economical crash, has been drawn. Our spending is unsustainable! We are peering over the edge of that cliff now.

One of the few things the US Congress is required by law to do is to pass a budget. It’s been 27 years since they passed all of their appropriation bills. Since that time, there have been a long series of Continuing Resolutions and Omnibus spending bills. The CR’s have been overinflated spending appropriations, with a end date to give Congress enough time to pass a budget. Sadly, it doesn’t happen. It’s easier to pass the CR than the debates and reconciliations for the budget. Unfortunately, it also provides Congress with a large excess of our money to spend. Especially since Covid broke out. Congress increased spending to combat the Scamdemic, and that extra spending has been incorporated into each subsequent CR. The Omnibus bills are far worse. They take the proposed inflated CR then add in a huge amount of pork spending, then toss in a bunch laws that would never see the light of day on their own!

And that’s where we sit today. Funding provided by the last Omnibus bill ends tomorrow night, 20 December, 2024 at midnight. Congress tried their best to pass a CR, that turned into an Omnibus. It was a huge spending bill, with a great amount of wasteful pork that will serve no one but advance some politicians agenda. This particular bill would also quash subpoenas from Trump’s incoming Department of Justice for various Deep State operatives from ever being investigated. Over the last four years, our government has violated the Bill of Rights on numerous occasions! This provision gives cover for those people over the rights of citizens.

Oh, yeah. The spending bill also gives Congresspeople a substantial pay raise. rank and file Representatives and Senators make $174,000 per year; the median income of those for whom they work, those they represent is currently $39,853. Yet our Congresspeople work less that half of the year. Add to that the fact that a huge number of them exit Congress worth much more than when they entered “public service”. So, tell me why they feel they are worthy of a raise. Their job is to represent you. Do you feel well represented?

Apparently not! Late last night, it started to appear that thiis spending bill would not come upp for a vote. Speaker Johnson says he wants a “clean” CR, just the bare minimum for the government to run until March. It will still probably be inflated. Otherwise, the government shuts down midnight tomorrow. On the other hand, in the news this morning, a report the FEMA in Tennessee wants a Stop Work Order for people working on hurricane damaged homes unless they obtain a special “floodplain development permit”. Since FEMA has done so little for areas devastated by Hurricane Helene in TN and NC and has been more of a hinderance, perhaps a shutdown would help the situation.

More to come…

At current, funding for the Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to end on Friday, just three days from now. The sticking point in funding DHS rests with the Executive Order basically granting amnesty to anywhere from 5 million to 10 million illegal immigrants. Conservatives want to defund those actions before funding the agency; liberals want all or nothing on funding, plus placing of blame on Republicans for a possible shutdown. Fear not, though; within 36 hours, the Republican leadership in Congress will forget who won the last elections and cave, leaving unchecked the autocratic dictates of this administration. This will further the disappearing act of checks and balances put forth by our Founders in Articles I, II and III of the US Constitution.

With this move, this administration maintains the ability to determine how they want to enforce laws. If they want to post border agents no closer than 50 miles of the border leaving the border wide open, that’s fine. If they want to take illegals and distribute them across all areas of the country without medical checks or effort to identify them, they can. Should they desire to award them with up to $35,000 in back tax refunds (whether they filed or not in the last three years), they’re good to go. Of course, they can provide Social Security cards and Obamacare to the illegals as well. The only thing that could stop this re-interpretation of the law is a pending court case with judges, I’m sure, that will bend over backwards to find a way to find in favor of the administration!

The White House is already moving forward. They have decided it is within their power to unilaterally raise taxes. Of course, there is precedent. The Department of Justice has been shaking down banks the last few years to the tune of billions of dollars, lest they find themselves in court for following ill-written laws. The EPA has levied fines against companies that dare offend them. The EPA has even commenced war against several states for allowing the production of coal. Don’t forget the fines imposed on the poor in the form of requiring them to buy approved wood stoves, because their old stoves used for heating produces too much CO2. Never mind the Constitution, which says Congress makes tax law, according to Article I, Section 8.

Just last week, the FCC in conjunction with this administration took control of the internet, on the pretext of high-speed access for all at a low price. They set in place a plan laid out in 332 pages, none of which have been made public even five days later! The Net Neutrality “laws” made a lot of promises, but will only give customers higher prices, slower speeds and censorship. They used a law from 1932 to classify the internet as a utility, much as the telecommunication industry was classified. Under this classification, innovation in telephones was limited. The only real change was the change from dial to tone, until deregulation. If the plan is so good, why is it still being kept secret? Anyone see a vote in Congress on this issue? I didn’t. The FCC Chairman even refused to appear before Congress, saying he was too busy implementing the plan to appear.

Where has our Congress gone? They have abdicated their duties and violated the oaths they took to protect and defend the Constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic. They have surrendered without a fight. They have given up their backbones and slithered away to hide under the rocks. They, along with a judiciary that has turned a blind eye or been corrupted, have abandoned their roles to produce an autocratic government, one who dictates law affecting everyone’s lives.

Congress needs to realize they work for We the People! They need to step up, find its intestinal fortitude and do the right thing. They need to return to the US Constitution before it’s too late. Hopefully, it’s not too late already!

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