Friday, February 14, 2025
FYI!!! Don’t overlook to purchase your spouse one thing costly for Valentine’s Day – a dozen eggs!!
All authorities businesses, federal, state, or native are imagined to be audited annually. So how will we find yourself with surprises from wasteful, if not outright unlawful, spending by USAID? We are able to definitely anticipate extra disgusting outcomes from different authorities organizations. As soon as once more although, aside from nationwide safety points (which the federal government selectively makes use of as a questionable cowl), why are the audits not being put on the web for the masters (the taxpayers) to look over? Are they even being achieved in accordance with Normal Accepted Accounting Ideas (GAAP)? You could be shocked that this isn’t at all times the usual that authorities businesses adjust to.
All spending payments originate within the U. S. Home, however the U. S. Senate has to additionally approve the cash being spent, adopted by the President’s signature. Most residents suppose that the time period “normal welfare,” within the Preamble to the U. S. Structure, means Uncle Sam can spend cash, or go additional into debt, in an virtually infinite variety of methods. Such considering is a superb blessing to the lobbyists that saturate Congress, with guarantees of cash for reelection and different under-the-table compensation, if federal lawmakers will assist the lobbyists’ agendas.
What number of ploys for cash really signify the “normal welfare?” Only a few, as a single merchandise, in a invoice all by itself, may cross each homes of Congress, by a large margin. Since every of us has heard the labels “rubbish” or “pork” spending, that are piles upon piles of particular pursuits spending
grouped collectively, the time period “normal welfare” has taken on a double which means that will make George Orwell jealous. Promise nearly all of lawmakers, one thing for his or her pet challenge or native space, after which sufficient members will vote “sure,” whereas holding again the urge to puke. It’s 1984 on steroids.
We must always nonetheless pray and work in the direction of returning to the small, restricted authorities arrange purposely by the Founding Fathers, as our present trajectory parallels the autumn of the Roman Empire. Why doesn’t Congress cease such foolishness? A part of the reply was uncovered again in 2004, when some ethics complaints about Tom Delay from Texas, have been surfacing, and the ABC Capitol Hill Correspondent, from the Jun 15, 2004 Night Information, stated that “Democrats and Republicans have had an off-the-cuff settlement to not examine one another, a truce that has lasted seven years.” What number of different durations of time, even now, is such a apply allowed?
In 1821, Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Charles Hammond, dated August 18, wrote, “ . . . whenev[er] all authorities, home and international, in little as in nice issues, shall be drawn to Washington as the middle of all energy, it should render powerless the checks supplied of 1 authorities on one other, and can develop into as venal and oppressive as the federal government from which we separated.”
When will we ever study? Residents are each the issue and the reply, so converse up!
Leo Lindquist
Vice President
