MAKE CONGRESS DO THEIR JOB

Rand Pual explains in the following clip why Congress' approval rating is so low and he makes the case that Congress should follow their own rules.

Thank you Rand Paul for writing a bill that will require Congress to read a bill before they vote on it.

It is both silly and sad that you have to make a law for Congress to do their job.

John Adams said that England was "a government of laws, and not of men" in reference to the mistreatment of the early American colonists by the British under their own laws before the Revolutionary War.

Rand Paul points out the reasons why the American public are being mistreated by the power elite in Washington, D.C. who refuse to follow their own laws.

Click the following link for Rand's proposal for Congress to read the Bill

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/235877-sen-paul-looks-to-force-senate-to-read-bills-it-passes

Click the following link to hear more Rand Paul on Hannity

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2013/10/23/sen-paul-pushes-constitutional-amendment-makes-laws-obamacare-apply-congress

What if we had to buy coffee like we now have to buy health insurance?

by RealityAlwaysWins

Link

http://realityalwayswins.com/2013/11/13/whats-next-coffeecare/

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCb9g8plGF8

Fed Up with Big Government?

According to James Bovard in his Article titled, "Reform Food Stamps for Good Nutrition" in Barron's dated November 25, 2013, food stamp spending has more than doubled to about 80 billion dollars a year and the number of recipients has risen about 70% to 47 million people since Obama has taken office in January 2009. Food-stamp fraud has most likely also increased. What is to stop food-stamp recipients from selling their cards and then claiming they were lost? Nothing apparently. In New Mexico approximately 70% of all cards issued last year were replacement cards according to New Mexico's Human Services Secretary Sidonie Squire.

Big government activism to get more people on public assistance has reached new and shocking levels. States have become "pushers of poverty" with funds from the federal government's USDA. According to James Bovard, "Florida is paying individual recruiters to sign up at least 150 new food stamp recipients per month." He adds that the Agricultural Department is encouraging food-stamp parties and bingo games to encourage new "participants." Should an impersonal federal government bureaucracy be "pushing poverty" or should we leave local communities to determine who is in need of nutrition?

It should be pointed out that the new more politically correct name for the food stamp program is SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program). I just hope the name change for the program didn't cost as much as setting up the website for the Affordable Care Act.

When it comes to bureaucracies, there is no incentive for results. The waste and abuse in any program does not matter to those in charge because they are not administering their own money. They have no incentive to spend wisely for results. Spending someone else's money without consequence or care is the epitome of moral hazard. When the program is run from some far away and out-of-touch land like Washington, D.C. the only incentive is to get the money out the door so the budget won't be cut the following year and submission for larger sums of taxpayer's money can be made in the future.

Local administration of nutritional programs for the poor are more effective as each community will have different needs based on the local economy. Accountability for the effectiveness of taxpayer programs for the poor on a local level is also more likely to be more efficient by the close proximity of the recipients to the administrators. Those administering the plans on a local level may personally know who is in need and who is not thus eliminating some elements of fraud. The federal government has never been accused of being thrifty with taxpayer's money.

The reason the federal government is not held accountable for spending is because of the power of the printing press. If the federal government has programs that are inefficient, or fraudulent, or both, they just turn on the printing presses and create more money. That causes inflation (think of blowing air into a balloon) which causes prices to rise (or inflate) which hurts the poor disproportionately because the poor have less disposable income. Prices rise because money is being printed faster than the increase in production of units of physical goods. Without a flood of money from a federal government a local community will be more likely to allocate resources carefully because it is illegal for anyone besides the federal government to create money from air.

I can hear the Waxmans and the Pelosis already. You don't care about the poor. You want to take food from their mouths. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let the local governments administer nutritional programs. The point is to cut back the federal government's involvement because there is no accountability for its actions. It's creation of money from air to pay for programs it cannot afford is immoral and dishonest because it hurts the poor disproportionately.

Why do these federal programs keep growing when the federal government is broke and "getting broker?" The politicians in Washington D.C. do not have hearings on what our federal government's unfunded liabilities are because that does not appeal to your emotions. Instead you have the Henry Waxmans and Charles Schumers of the world grabbing the headlines with dog-and-pony shows about steroids. In the long run the federal government's unfunded liabilities will make a difference in your life with higher taxes and irresponsible government spending but the hearings on the steroid use in sports will be a blip in your memory. You may remember the Waxmans and the Schumers because of their antics at the voting booth, and that is what they want, but before you vote you should also consider the fact they were playing their fiddles while Rome burning.

No one is saying don't feed the poor but it is time to start cutting the fat on inefficient and bloated federal government programs. Increasing the budget every year and promoting food stamps in such an unethical manner for such an inefficient program is like a fat kid going on a diet by eating cookies and drinking soda. It just doesn't work.