The House Takes Action to Keep Government Running - Really?

Bill Smith, Editor: On Friday, the same Government that keeps passing bills that place us further in debt and insist on passing a major health care bill, had to "again" take action to keep the government afloat. The government was headed for a shutdown due to lack of government funding. So the House passed a "one month" bill which was approved by a 217-to-190 vote.

Imagine a family running up a massive debt. Let's assume the family like Congress is to busy doing ever thing else except planning and managing their money and now they are way over budget, out of money and about to go bankrupt. So, what do they do? They call a family meeting and draw-up a new extended budget - oops were are broke -- but based on this budget they just keep spending money (they don't have). Sounds nuts? It is! And so is Congress for not stopping its excessive spending and launching new bills full of new spending, earmarks and pork. And, allowing the Treasury to either print more money or sell more debt.

Congress is in fact doing the very thing for which "We the People (American citizens) would go to jail. And to add to the insult, Congress also increased the budgets for their own offices by over 8%. Maybe this increase is to pay for speed readers they need to help them read all the bills they are passing without reading them.

While the House was at it, they helped the struggling Postal Service by allowing it to delay required payments of $4 billion that are due next month to a health care fund for retirees. They even provided another months financing to cover expiring highway funds. And where did they attach this spending continuation bill? They attached it to a $4.7 billion House-Senate compromise bill to finance Congress’s own budget. They did not forget the rest of the government; they also extended the financing for the operating budgets of Cabinet departments and other agencies at their current levels (no 8% increase for them) through Oct. 31.

Can we trust Congress? After all, while the Democrat leadership is not doing their required business, they are moving forward to in-debt future generations, to pass nationalized health care, cap-and trade and other inane legislation and even asking the executive branch to gag the free speech of Americans so they don't talk about their proposed bills. Right now, the answer is a resounding "No we do not trust the leadership of Congress."

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