The Deficit Problem
Monday, March 29th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
THE DEFICIT PROBLEM:
1. Instead of Obama, Harry, and Nancy going to the trouble of writing a budget proposal for 2011, simply pull out the budget for 2001 and use that. Win, lose, or draw, what each department got then is what it has to spend in FY 2011-12, and tough luck if your department didn’t exist. Leave it to the hysterical department heads to decide what to cut, where, and possibly even why, and be grateful we didn’t start with abolishing a bunch of agencies.
2. This time next year, dust off the budget from 1991 and use that. Again, it will be the responsibility of department heads to figure out how to live within their new budgets. Gee, maybe the 18% of bureaucrats who are now making over 150K may have to take a roll back.
3. In 2013…you guessed it, go back to 1981. What you see is what you get.
By that time we should be showing a budget surplus and can turn our minds to reducing taxes. If not, go back to ’71 in 2014. Reduce expenditures until income covers them, and then cut any fat that remains. We taxpayers have to do it, so why shouldn’t government at all levels?
THE EDUCATIONAL CRISIS:
1. Pulll out the curricula and textbooks in use in 1950 and reprint for use this fall. True, the kids won’t learn about Castro, Viet Nam, and all of the left-wing lunacy of the last sixty years, but they will actually learn arithmetic, geometry, chemistry, biology, civics, Latin, and history up to the point where the USA began to fall apart probably terminally. Replace all reading instruction materials with the 19th century Webster’s Blue Back Spellers.
2. Put all non-English speakers into special schools which teach nothing but English and do not allow them into other school systems until they are proficient enough to learn what being an American is supposed to mean…or at least how to read, write, cypher, and succeed in business.
There, now, wasn’t that simple?
Regards,
Linda Brady Traynham
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R. Murphey says:
March 29th, 2010
12:20 pm
This is a far better plan than anything I’ve heard advertised on the propaganda… er… news stations.
Remember the phrase “balanced budget”?
Let’s go further… why not Zero Deficit?
I don’t want to just balance the budget and create a “projected surplus”, I want it to undo the damage and actually put the U.S. into the solvency to stay.
As far as education goes: yes yes yes and we don’t have to watch as someone writes Jefferson out of the textbooks or schools start closing 1 or more days a week…
Ernie says:
March 29th, 2010
2:49 pm
Now Linda,
Surely you know we didn’t have enough government in 1981? And the people were clamoring for more…
Steve Foste says:
March 30th, 2010
3:11 pm
You have been a busy little lady this week. I have trouble reading it as fast as you write it. But of course your stuff requires some thought. This one was easy.
Linda Brady Traynham says:
March 30th, 2010
3:39 pm
Laughter…busy, indeed, Steve. I had forgotten writing this one!
Linda Brady Traynham says:
March 30th, 2010
3:41 pm
I’m with you, fellow Irishman. How about zero deficits AND reducing taxes and government programs to 1920 levels?! I have a couple of new articles up at http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder y’all might like. Linda
Essie Feldhacher says:
March 31st, 2010
3:41 pm
Yeah, I well remember 1981 and the household budget. If individuals could do it – so could societies. But I expect too many are weak-willed and so attached to the public teat of financial largess of let-someone-else-pay (fobbing it off on great-grandkids as if that’s not cruel and inhumane ancestral behavior our adults’ parts nowdays) so the average American doesn’t have the wherewithal nor willpower to do what it takes. Nor get off duffs and turn off the boob tube and get out and make improvements in the world with the sweat of one’s brow, smoothed along with Elbow Grease.
Credit eventually comes to an end for deadbeat families – IMO – nations as well. It’s only a matter of time. When sheoples and USG are rudely yanked off the public financial teat – they’re gonna SQUALL like too-fat babies with glutonous attitudes when Mama Tucks the Spigot back under her clothes and says, “Enough!”
And the nice Chinese “Wetnurse” is gonna turn her back instead of baring a breast, too…. And those with hoggy attitudes here have the audacity to catcall and insult those they call “PIGS”! Do they avert their eyes when brushing teeth before the medicine cabinet come morning? And only catch a reflection in the plate glass store windows as they stride in plastic ‘money’ in hand?!
Desertrat says:
April 11th, 2010
7:55 am
No argument with any of the above, but the situation is much worse than what most folks believe. The Feds do the cash method in accounting, not using Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures (GAAP). The annual incurred future liabilities are thus off the books, even though they’re debt.
So add a few trillions to this year’s $1.6 trillion deficit. The debt which is building up for SS, Medicare, etc., etc. Somewhere up around a hundred trillion George Washingtons…
Just the “normal” federal debt’s interest component is growing beyond the total annual budget of not all that many years back. (“Not mnany” in Olde Phart perspective.
) Interest rates will be rising, and the interest component will soon be around trillion bucks in its own right.
“Owned and operated” by the people who run Amtrak, GM and Homeland Security.