WANT YOUR PORK WITH KRAUT & RED CABBAGE?

Hi, Finally, we come to the place to discuss what economics was originally intended to cover. Budgets!!!!!!!!! and Money!!!!!! As you have come to realize the word ECONOMICS includes a world more these days. This week as you all know, Washington was in siege on the budget. Budget wars too often involve what Florida called "Pork". Florida in the mid years of the twentieth century had all sorts of terms for the "pork barrel" legislators who only desired funds for their section of the state as their version of reelection. Bring home the "bacon" and win the voters!!!!!!!!!!! "Pork Choppers" had a successful history of victory by bringing home the "bacon". Sometimes but not regularly some of them actually worried about the good of state and passed budget rules that benefited Florida.

Florida was at that time a mini-microcosm of the budget wars in Washington that have been going on for too many years to count. Each needy legislator comes to the table with an AGENDA and places that right on top of the heap of budget decisions that must be made. It is often but not always the reason he will vote a certain way. Other legislators bring their strong political BIAS and place it on top of pile and often will only vote in relation to those precepts. In other words legislators rarely come to a budget vote empty handed.

Prior to the major votes on the budget, committees are formed that make up the budget to be voted on. Lots of PORK FAT is added, lots taken out and therein lies the seeds of the battle ahead. If you have achieved POWER in the House or Senate, more than likely your 'PORK RINDS' ARE INCLUDED!!!!!!!!! If you haven't achieved that power then you still have a chance during the BUDGET STRUGGLE IN CONGRESS to achieve your aims by "selling" your vote for your "pork" to a budget section that needs followers. This is called COMPROMISE. You BUY MY PORK!!!!!!!!!! I PAY WITH MY VOTE FOR YOUR PORK AND MAYBE SOUR KRAUT AND RED CABBAGE. It is not always a fair trade.

Not to denigrate those who actually work on the budget. They spend many TAXPAYER HOURS poring over the assets and debits and attempt to produce a budget document that they assume????????? is a sensible document that will pass without much controversy.

UNFORTUNATELY, the wonder of it all, is that they ignore items like Senator Ted Poe, Second District, Texas, brought up in session. The American public is unaware of what is in MOST Congressional budgets and this encourages some of the RIDICULOUS WASTE THAT CONTINUES !!!!!!!!!

Poe told the house that AMERICA gives FOREIGN AID TO 190 countries as a SINGLE PACKAGE OF AID which needs but hasn't gotten REEVALUATION. That PACKAGE OF AID TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, according to Poe, who demonstrated the immensity on a map of the world, includes ALL OUR ENEMIES!!!!!!!!!!! Poe underscored that we are giving financial aid to our immediate enemies, verbal enemies, and waiting enemies. We include sending taxpayer money to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and the entire middle East as well as CHINA. WE OWE CHINA ENOUGH MONEY TO WALL PAPER THE HOUSES OF A TRILLION CHINESE!!!!!!!!!!! Why are we giving them foreign aid??????????

WE SEND TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY COUNTRIES, and that includes all but two of the worlds countries!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE RECIPIENTS ARE NEVER VOTED ON INDIVIDUALLY!!!!!!!!!AND NEVER EXPECTED TO PAY IT BACK!!!!!!

When the American public exhibited that kind of money 'budgeting'????????? in recent years, they lost their homes, their income and their security. WHEN YOU BUDGET AND SPEND BADLY, YOU END UP ON THE STREET OF "DREAMS"!!!!!! Because REALITY is going to VISIT YOU VERY SOON.

WONDER WHY WE GO TO WAR SO OFTEN????????????THAT'S OUR TAXPAYERS' MONEY WE'RE FIGHTING ABOUT using more of our Taxpayer's money(although the reason is often lost in the rhetoric) WITH SOME VAGUE HOPE WE'LL RECOVER SOME ADVANTAGE FOR GIVING THE FINANCIAL AID!!!!!!!!!!

GENEROSITY IS ONE THING!!!!!!!!!! STUPIDITY IS ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!

We still haven't recovered all the money in FOREIGN AID WE GAVE AFTER WWII. WHAT DID WE GET BACK THEN???????????? ENEMIES!!!!!!!!!! There was an old saying: NEITHER A BORROWER OR LENDER BE!!!!!!!!!! WHY?????? The DISLIKE of BEING INDEBTED TO SOMEONE OR SOMETHING because of THE POWER ENDOWED. HATE THAT POWER often follows.

Somehow BUDGET COMMITTEES go over the IMMENSE list of EXPENSES OUR GOVERNMENT INCURS and the SMALLER LIST OF INCOME and manage to produce an ITEM called FOREIGN AID with no compunctions. Our enemies flew planes into our buildings in New York but got their CHECK AS USUAL AND HAVE BEEN GETTING IT EVER SINCE.

DON'T EVEN TRY THE ARGUMENT that we can't blame countries for these OVERT actions BY MEMBERS OF A TERRORIST GROUP. When government leaders THREATEN our citizens as they have DONE CONSTANTLY in the Middle East and ALLOW classes in special schools set up in their countries to teach KILLING AMERICANS, do we continue to finance these actions???????????

And that's only one example of how TAXPAYERS have become the BUTT of ANTI-AMERICANISM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

PULEEEEEEEEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!

So when the media expresses relief that our government through COMPROMISE didn't need to shut down (AND SAVE BIG MONEY BY NOT OPERATING), don't sigh with relief. ASK WHAT AMERICA LOST BY COMPROMISE?????????? WHOSE PORK was bought?????

And even though American taxpayers were not physically there, our representatives were. Our agenda was in their hands. And most Americans asked for Congress to reduce the budget and in particular not to fund the new Obama health care bill. WHAT DID WE THE TAXPAYERS LOSE?????????? DID THEY UNDO THE HEALTH CARE FIASCO THAT OBAMA WANTS OR CAVE IN TO CRITICS?????????? The answer is " blowing in the wind".

CHEERS, CONNIE