Dear Editor:
I am in total agreement with Janey Callahan-Chin's letter last week that encouraged citizens to call their congressional representatives. Since they are unable to balance the budget on their own volition, they should heartily support a Balanced Budget Amendment that will force them to exercise fiscal responsibility. Most city, county, and state governments already have this requirement.
I hope that she also agrees that Harry Reid should stop burying bills that are passed by the House and allow them to come up on the floor for debate and vote. Maybe that's his version of the "Texas Compromise."
As for her concerns that Social Security, Armed Services, and Medicare funds would not be available, that would only have happened if the President wanted it to happen. The government receives approximately $200 billion in revenue each month. Social Security costs $49.2 billion; our active duty military costs $2.9 billion; interest on our debt is $29 billion; and the feds provide $11 billion in educational funds. That's a total of $92.1 billion if the President prioritized and paid those bills. That leaves $108 billion yet to be allocated. There was never a need for concern about default on our national debt due to insufficient funds or a need to frighten social security recipients and military personnel. However, neither the President nor the Treasury Secretary would disclose their priorities for political reasons. They could easily have allayed the fears of those affected groups but they chose not to do so for political reasons.
Let's also keep in mind that it was the President and the Democrats that took $500 billion out of Medicare in order to make Obamacare "revenue neutral."
So call your representatives. Tell them no more blank checks, no more irresponsible and wasteful spending, no more borrowing and start lowering the national debt. Learn to live within your means as we all have to do. Our Republic cannot survive "womb to tomb" government dependency!
Sincerely,
Bill Garvin
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