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…