Senate Has No Shame, or Spine. Saddles Future Generations With More Debt
Your children, and this country, just got a lot poorer as the Senate vote for a $1.1 trillion spending spree.
The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans’ programs.
The more-than-1,000-page package, one of the last essential chores of Congress this year, passed 57-35 and now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.
We’ll have fun over the next few days learning about the shit they loaded into the bill.
Republicans decried what they called out-of control spending and pointed to an estimated $3.9 billion in the bill for more than 5,000 local projects sought by individual lawmakers from both parties.
The Citizens Against Government Waste said those projects included construction of a county farmer’s market in Kentucky, renovation of a historic theater in New York and restoration of a mill in Rhode Island.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a longtime critic of such projects, said it was “shameful” that so many had found their way into the legislation. Most Americans, he said, were watching football and not the Senate debate, adding, “If they knew what we are about to pass ….”
The legislation also contains numerous items not directly related to spending. It provides help for auto dealers facing closure, ends a ban on funding by the District of Columbia government for abortions and allows the district to permit medical marijuana, lets Amtrak passengers carry unloaded handguns in their checked baggage and permits detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to the United States to stand trial, but not to be released.
These people are not listening to the country saying to stop the spending. They continue to spend as if there are no consequences. They have no spine. No shame. This country has trillions of unfunded liabilities. Medicare/Medicaid will be broke. Same with Social security. The deficit is crushing. The debt is so large that it would take hundreds of year to pay off. Future generations are absolutely going to find the baby boom generation to be the worst people that have ever lived in this country. History will write how selfish and irresponsible it was. These people in Congress are despicable. I cannot wait for the opportunity to vote for real leaders and patriots in the years to come.
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